Show An Authoritative Sport Fea Feature ture by the Foremost Foremost Foremost Fore- Fore 1 most Sporting Writer and Cartoonist in America AL By ROBERT EDGREN EGREN I EORGE was the greatest wrestler in n the world and andone andone j G GEORGE one of the strongest men in the world when Jeffries retired from the ring 1 several years ago because there was no one to fight him in England and without any anyone one to wrestle heard about Jeffs Jeff's predicament and became filled with ambition Hack wrote me several letters at that time telling me his plans and inviting suggestions I gave hiI him just one ne Hack I wrote stick to your own game Jeffries would kill you didn't exactly like that He came back with a letter full of arguments I f admire Jeffries greatly he wrote but I am quicker than he stronger more experienced in physical contests In wrestling I have hove never found a man who could give me any trouble If I study boxing I shall be a good boxer Also for the man who gives Jeffries the knockout there will be a great deal of money I shall try it Wait You shall see Then Hack wrote me that he had hired Gunner Moir champion of England England England Eng Eng- land to coach and train him He was full of enthusiasm He was learning how to box Already he felt that he could knock out the Gunner at any time He had never realized how easy it was to box Today he had hit Moir Moil terrible bloWs It Jt was not at all difficult I didn't get any more letters about boxing from Hack The Thing That Impressed I didn't hear any more about b boxing from hi him until he came to New York and we met v Jeffries Jeffries Jef- Jef r f Jef Jeffries fight When are you ou going to fries I asked half Jokingly A A. faraway look came into Hacken- Hacken schmidt's eI eye think ii of t boxIng boxing box box- time to Ah I have no ing lug now now not not just now he said ald I Iam I Iam 1 am too busy wrestling But I should hould like to back Gunner Moir against Jeffries I would put up a a side sUle stake Do you not think Moir Noir would surely beat beath I I h I 1 l 1 do not I replied promptly Hack looked astonished I Moir He UE lieis Heis Ah but you OU do not know kIlOW is a wonderful boxer eit I gl have t ft boxed o I with him and he has hit n me e on th the P. 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JeffrIes Jef- Jef I certain that if he be Jef Jeffries Ah am hard blow fries on the nose with such a he would knock Jeffries out There is no doubt about it So now I know why wh- Hack gave up the idea of whipping Jeffries Moil Moir was as wIth compared merelY a second rater knew a heavy weights hut he be American enough to little about any Impression on snake malte a great wrestler miserably fall fail wrestlers As a rule rl wives Wrestling when the they trY to box muscles Their them hu huge e chunkY They and hauling all work Is pulling drag drag things 11 S toward from t the therm- therm thermA hIm iWi A A fighter fighter fighter knocks thin things s away needs He doesn't need muscles mu and speed snap that have nothing to do with wrestling Gotch Had a Glass Glaes Jaw Frank Gotch heavy eavy weight wrestling I champion wanted to become bee a Like he looked ed with en- en ii on fh the thA I Jeffries for championship fights fight and felt that he was as strong and as intelligent as Jeffries and quite as able to fight Gotch tried it An old timer long retired from the ring was selected as first vic vie tim Um The old timer tinier reached over and deftly dropped his padded knuckles on Gotch's Jaw When they brought Frank back to earth an hour or so BO later he thought he had been through an an earthquake earthquake earth earth- qua quake lee complicated with a dynamite explosion explosion ex ex- and a delayed of the civil war He didn't try fighting again I He was satisfied to be known as a very good wrestler Doctor Roller another lumpy- lumpy muscled wrestler thought hed he'd become a Jeffries Roller fixed up a fight with a little known but able bodied Scotchman up in the Northwest The Scotchman missed Roller half a dozen times times then then hit him once Roller turned two somersaults somersaults somer somer- and landed on his right ear He retired from the ring too Theres There's nothing like pla playing your own game The Japanese have a n neat at little method of self defense known as jiu In III alt all the world theres there's no other fighting fighting fight fight- ing art so carefully developed Jiu Jiu-jitsu students go through a year six course When they finish they know everything there is to know about anatomy they are as hard as hickory and they can kilt kill killa a man with the sudden pressure of a thumb thumbS or crack his bones with the slap of a hand or tie him into knots as hard hardas as the one youthful Alexander cut with his sword jitsu Jiu-jitsu is the development of c cen nI n- n I turie of study and a jiu jiu-jitsu master I can fight barehanded a against a man hb with a sword or or a bayonet a an even I chance of winning Some time ago a jitsu jiu-jitsu student student student-ot ot of a ver very advanced class went class went to West est Point to show the I Ideas American He s students called for o there h volunteers fu some fe J Japanese and nfl the captain of oC the football team promptly stepped outCome outCome outCome out Come said the Jap falling into a position of defense Tackle Tac-kle Too Much for the Jitsu Grip The football man came He tackled the little Jap lap threw him him fell on him and roughed fhe JIm him so savagely that it was all aU nv over rif with TaP in ln a few seconds jitsu Jiu-jitsu was laughed out of West Point After all that was a mistake There Theren are ing n things thinS's The F in jitsu jiu-jitsu we well worth know- know miF merely to little Jap Probably expected demonstrate few football a a. tricks The tackle was new unexpected and entirely ly Successful in Ia its object The Jap wasn wasn't t playing his own game But I would hardly care to see anyone try a football tackle on a jiu- jiu Jitsu expert who whites has easily beaten all opponents wrestlers and fighters in England Ingland It If w were to the real fighting tricks allowed to use of oC jiu jiu-jitsu gu the L football jS player would nutting suicIde probably he be committing com com- I j- j person toughening S BK-S He w himself WJ spend A I A jitsu years artist S hardening Is a tough and to tosa endure He has many his throat exercises to toughen so he One of these Js Is to cannot lie be strangled o on his have an iron bar laid back and with sa ends of two it with men all pressing their across down his on throat th the K continued for about five weight iMa This is I minutes It 1 would suffocate an fn ordinarily y athletic i man In a few tew s seconds lie He IT thumbs fingers hands it develops knees knees everything everything into fighting heels heel tto toes s. s For instance many bone tools toole- bone In tricks tr I done with are a sharp Wildth bl blow with the s side e of the hand delivered ve red student The Th jl jiu- jiu jitsu practices hitting b a board until in time he can break r with his hand After that a heavy v nTy plank n k collar bone boce is as easy to an arm or r a match break reaK as a Playing the other fellows fellow's to be a habit of Professional cam game see Fighters inv Invariably ab Y think athletes athletes' enough to beat the they are clever the rode rode- es W Wres Wres- tiers think they should b be boxers Bel want to be Ball players actors Actors I to be ball baR players Decors want who At would that Ive I've have haTe seen made some better ball actors it T pIa Players I us hope And actors who let have been beer better ball al players layers SUrely sureh would man who Is successful ft in n one line Uno But i iman th the e mistake when always a he makes gro grows growa and plays play the other fellows fellow's earn gam game m envious oua 1916 1516 by bJ u. u the Co o |