Show EATiNG EATING 9 M MORE RE INJURIOUS TO ATHLETE THAN THAN THAN- DR DRINKING JIM r JEFFRIES CLAIMS CLAIM HOTEL LIFE TOL TO RUIN JACK DEMPSEY J Fi- Fi Fish Fresh sh A Air r and Little Food o 0 r f Key to Health andReal and andReal Real Strength r. r I 11 Kv By Robert Edgren 0 R Jim Jeffries a 1 few days dars ago looked and astonishingly young oung J 1 M. M jl haven't seen him hm In such ap- ap c fine since he was WS wl s of oC the world He lie carried iv t t. t and his face was lean With With- wrinkled his skin sune sunt sun- sun t e to a dark brown blown at as it In Inthe the world word have you ou been r g 1 I asked to come it working on the ranch outs out- out s 1 day and taking care carp or ot J said Jeffries I I never ne 1 itter Probably t I could put pretty fair scrap but you what youth Is IL Id I'd like ike to be one 7 one again and going after aCer y Wed We'd ed have ha a a. ilce fight last Thor mol than a round YO two for I know Dempsey Dempse would 1 6 If In and take chances and amI Id I'd Idt e i et b him In the same e way InT They t Ut ee vt r fight me that way in the 4 day days days- AU All the fights tights were long Ions lits its and it tt was the style to stand iff rt and box and look ook for d id try to wear the other fellow n nand and then get him T r never anyone anyon come at me the u ay 8 sey would but if Id I'd everS ever e S it g kt t anybody like Dempsey I have been glad to meet mee him Tt own game came lot ant think Dempse could have ib i down In those days dais I I Is twenty-one twenty or twenty two ItS as s near punch-proof punch as an any man be 1 SG I iN lV X DRINKIN mans man's best fighting age I Is I. I tot Lot twenty one to twenty six tI that I was at ni best att at t one ty-one to twenty-four twenty and 9 quite as good afterward I I run sliD run a hundred close dose to ten tee re ids then and speed makes the theD Wr ter D l li II a s re great gret t puncher but order ader rd r If he can hit any harder hardel Bob lIOb Fitzsimmons Anyway he place his punches bot bet 1 think Fitzstmmons Fitzsimmons was the 1 eat est fighting boxer I ever saw nt a 1 fancy tancy boxer like Corbut Cor Cor- but for tor eff effective boxing he ha had i end orld beaten tJ 1 remember after f Corbett to fight 1 1 sat there at the ringside gat o at the fight tight and I couldn't Stand 1 how Fitz slipped In an and ed Corbett all the time Fit as as cunning as a 1 lox fox o C think a ft couple o 0 of moves move 11 1 O of ot anyone he fought remember how everyone everone he knocked Corbett outa out oute outtie tie e a solar plexus punch Well VelI ts tz told me years rears afterward j he he be didn't hit Corbett In tn the theOf Of Ot the stomach at all He lie got tt It to leave an shUtS shUt shUt- S Id d just stiffened his left arm armId Id a caught Corbett on the edge i ribs on the right side of to drive the ribs in n he punch I 1 used the same sameon on all Corbett myself in San ls o. o and you o remember m er how p Od down That h was erD D Bobs Bob's Bobst t tilt and nobody else ever er everd iid S d how to use It the way he heat was at my best the night I Ithe the l championship from lOna ns at Coney Island I dont don't donto jj o any man living could have eked me off oU m my feet that night I hit me mary maly a punch can en Ia say that I never felt one m. m I remember that in one h he be swung a 1 punch on my chin chint t me perfectly with eg ev- ev g he had bad The blow raised g 5 on my chin When hen I t went me corner my second tall sail al that bat was a bad one on the Did It bother you ou much didn't feel teel It at all I said eald at was the truth I was proof roof that night ead Ud a a. story of ot yours about fi a while a ago o went tnt You oD 00 had bad the right dope but buttell tell tall you a few tew about ng ag Jack Dempsey takes care are of himself doesn't h hn ha Ter er drinks or smokes He lie e dissipate ate and he boxes and o erne work k all I th tI time That's S E. E But i let me rae tell teli I you some some- If g A man cn dissipate more hurt himself more by eating l J by drinking If you OU are a end of Dempsey's tell the buy huy buyA A teh atch his eating and keep away a OJ LIt people if It ho he wants to stick slick as a's as I Im I'm m going to tell you youa youry ou a ry 7 about the time I won the tue I t rI Its It's never r been t told re le I want to show you what t condition means t I L 1111 WITH R began tegan to train for five months before the fight right Brady went after the match iad n d two months montha on the road 0 wa way Then I put In months t-months of the hardest kind of S. S running boxing and above e ting sting for the fight The work J. J hat every ery good fighter lose does S d d Tommy Ryan Ran and at the start was faster than I was and fd h t 3 could hit bIt me ne whenever er r he wanted n nI I weighed 47 41 rounds pounds stripped n I I began the real work worl of or and that was m my roy weight not weight not fator fat or three months f Y ate hardly e You'd be amazed to know W W. little a big man really needs eat ard ald how much stronger a aS aan aan i S an fl becomes If It he doesn't eat too I dolt fieh Its It's no joke that people dig of dr lr graves dea with their It teeth I I fI would eat too small I lamb fir Dr my dinner with all the fat trimmed d of off That ma made e about two small 8 aU bites to each chop I t had a ail il fruit and toast I had dry toast for tor months very months very Utile little In CONDITION Robert Edgren I I JEFFRIES' JEFFRIES SUPERB c By w wA A 47 IV Mo e. e tT s M 1 is 0 0 To OT c OJ O gt Tt T tt LI u. e t RUo S f. f Ti I o AT 1 j OR L C Ct t- t o f s 0 t 0 I I I S 1 f 0 l t o r 0 4 i 0 I I 1 0 5 UlU i. i p puh PUNCH Q S t GG G o ON t Mi I C I I t t rt T 1 AU- AU e ec c I I m I IB B B. B o CoME A t tS P f S r JJ Jk St r WOL Lt I II I fact I had so much dry toast than I I lost all liking for tor toast and never did care for tor it again until just lately All through that hard training train ing I ate as little as I could an and drank almost nothing at all but a little cold water with lemon juice In tn It The da day before the fight our ourt ourI cook fixed up a a- a abig big I pitcher pitcher- heo of cold coldwater coldwater OI I water t and lemon ma juice ur I took o a a. small gla glass s of or it and sipped be because because because be- be I cause 1 i was so dry that every fiber In me was crying for tor water Drink It It-It It it wont won't hurt you you she said ald 1 I the whole pitcher just to feel the coolness of it going down and to wet m my tongue Then I slipped a out back of the barn and lOd put iny my fingers down by throat and got rid 0 of it I eased up on the day or the tight right a little and weighed 20 pounds at the ringside I 1 weighed weigh eel after atter the fight Just fight Just lightest Ive I've ever been sinco I was wall wasa walla a boy I lost eight pounds In eleven rounds rounds and and in the hours of waitIng waiting wait wait- waiting ing before getting into the ring It was the excitement more than any- any g else that took the weight off orf ADVICE ADVICK I FOR FOIl Oll fought desperately when he felt Celt be ho was after I dropped him with a Jab In the second round and he hit bit me many a ahard ahard ahard hard punch He lie couldn't land just right for tor I 1 had a a. trick of turning my head with the punch as It land ed But he hit me ar at awful lot of glancing punches pun around the head I never ne told anyone this this' before but the top and sides of my head bead were ere ereso so scraped and bumped up by Bobs Bob's fiat tilt fists that I 1 could bear to comb or brush my hair for a a. week after the fight Bob could sure hit yet et none of the punches shook me and ana even the one that raised ar at eg egg on my chin didn't daze daxe me in the least After the fight tight I went to a turkIsh turkIsh turk turk- Ish bath In New York for tor A day cal and just went into one one shower one shower and plunge and ad steam after ater another I My ly dried out body must nave have up water like a sponge through the pores even in the steam room I drank a couple of bottles or and some water and when I 1 went out I weighed pounds 1 I had put on 2 22 pounds in a a. single day I 1 always trained hard for fights tights and got Into good ana and I I f always rut ut my eating down to al almost almost al- al most moat nothing In training That's the Va way to train Into perfect con con- dillon But I 1 never ne felt after beatIng beatIng beating beat- beat Ing Fitzsimmons that I 1 had bad a bard jo job joc ahead It any fight tight and 1 I grew rew careless When there were no more heavyweights the promoters would rut put on with me and I had to retire I went vent up as high as Ill pounds pound I trained r ten for the ieno fight tight six years later and took off oft the weight and looked all right But 1 I lacked something It wasn't there Ive I've been living out II Ir the sun working around the tho ranch for forthe forthe forthe the past few years eating and drinking no more than I 1 need and Im I'm p probably in much better ron eon today than I was at Reno nellO If It Dempsey 1 lives as carefully I ts 9 I 1 Ido mt do he ought t to be champion I r. r for a along along long time I feel teel that If Id I'd lon don It ItI ItI itI I I would have held the title a I many years jears earll more There was another cIrcumstance that affected the fight at Reno fieno I Isaid said aid referring to td the theory that Jeffries was drugged before the event ent Maybe sn said id Jeffries Indifferently indifferently indifferently but bu that was a long hong t time lime line ago and Ive I've stopped thinking about It I know row that in any cas casI cas I lacked something no amount of training could bring back FightIng Fighting Fight- Fight I Ing log takes the greatest combination cf Gt speed and endurance 8 of all si orts and a mar Is III ft t his ida st at at atin att t in In onE to to 10 t only one perhaps two twenty perhaps crha ip tp to twenty Venty That's the tIme peak Afterward he can last for tor a good t years If he cats eats and tok takes s care of himself When you ou get gel I I hark hack to New York tell teU Dempsey that for me ml Id I'd hate to see the boy i beaten and unless he fights oftener i and gets ts awa away from living In hotels Inc Im hell liell go like the rest of ofus I Iu u us 5 61 cud 1 l Tough Isn't int it a fellow tellow I realize these things when he hes he's young Come over to the ranch while youre you're onro here hero ard alt Ill I'll show you 1 how a L fellow ellow ought to live hive 1924 by The Bell Boil Syndicate Syndicate Syn Syn- I d Inc l' l a F l- l 1 9 d I fv 1 I I o L' L yet 9 4 c o t- t 0 0 t. t I C tj I U tOo clO O ti 1 0 10 0 S C II Et A t 1 S C I IC |