Show Jeffries Tells How He Feels About It J BY JAMES J. J JEFFRIES I Retired and Undefeated Heavy Weight Champion of the tho World 4 How does docs it feel to bo the only ony retired and un undefeated champion in captivity capS cap asked n a frivolous minded acquaintance of mine mino re recently With a sur suddenness sud- sud denness that tuat surprised even myself I nn answered II All 11 I ri right ht if it it wasn't for iorI I having baving to answer so o man man man- different questions 1 If Jf anybody thinks that I wasn't serious when I mR made e this au answer let him bun stand land around my office for a halt half an n hour and listen to the hun hundred led aud one 1 questions a 8 minute that I am ext expected to answer This feature of my every every- Iday life used to bother inc me but it doesn't any more more more-I I am jettin ettin used to it itana I and ana assume this responsibility as part of my days day's work I i My I old friends all feel fecI at nt liberty to hold mo up on nu any question that hap hap- happen pen to pop into their heads while one fo of the first things that a now new acquaintance acquaint- acquaint lauce ance does oes upon bein being introduced is to onto my band hand and cud propound sonic somo question that he probably has been savine sav- sav in ine ing up for the occasion A A man many of the tho samo same old oM are banded out to me every ery day dar Some of them have come my way so often n that I regard them as very nry old friends The prince of them all aU is is It Do Do vou t-vou YOU VOU think yon you will tm over fight again 1 l t r wish I had hid a dollar for or every overy time I Ive 1 have c ve answerer answered no nos to this query My advice to the young oung boxers in gen gen- en- en I era oral if cut down to one sentence would woul bo be to the tho jn of Go Go repeat saying saving west young oung man mail California 3 is the thU place pInce i ifor for the tho boxer now The Tho six and ten ten- I round bouts in the east cast arc of such an unsatisfactory nature that it takes a trip to the Pacific coast to develop elop what i is is really in a n man Leach Cross Cros and Tommy Murphy hy are aro a pair of high ela claa men who have been restricted by these short route bouts bonts The Tho recent talk of a Battling Nelson Nelson- Freddie Welsh battle has hag caused c-aused a 1 lot lotof lotof lotof of people to ask me what I J thou thought ht of oi oin such a n match There is is just this much mitch I about it If Welsh and md Nelson meet it I will vill bo be u a case ease of the tho old question of a I boxer against ain t n a fi fighter up a again ain for settlement By y this I 1 dont don't mean mcm to infer that Welsh isa isn't t a fi fighter He Ho Hohas has proved that ho is but when wIlen it comps comes to cleverness in boxing there thoro is is no su such h thin thing as comparing lo 10 Welsh Battling Nelson elson is a fi fighter a n real I fi fighter One has but to look at the Danes Dane's won wonderful erful record to realize what IR I Ia a R tough h nut nuts nut ho is Nelson has never neer sidestepped i any one ono that the public I asked him to meet In point of fact ho lie hohas has gone one miles mile out of his way time and time a again ain to give o battle to dangerous dangerous dan dan- I that the other 1331 erous opponent 1 f II Al t I 1 pound fe fellows lows were giving in the 0 b by Three Nelson tOll ht Joo d n Ho He survives es the Old Mastor More Nore to his credit as a fi lighter fighter could coul scarcely be said To m my w wa way ay of thinking Nelson has earned a rest or anything else that he wants but if Bat ever meets Welsh I e expect to see tho the fur fly in a Jon long fast and desperate battle Neither boy will iU ever give o up until ho is thoroughly conquered |