Show JEFFRIES JEFFRIES' WAS THE KING lUNG OF PUGILISTS It was generally supposed that John JohnI I Ii J. J Sullivan's Sullivans knockout punch was WS a aright aright J. J ri right ht to the jaw but Joo Joe the veteran California heavy weight says differently so o the thousands of ot sports who ho have o watched tho bi big fellow put his bis men nen away must have ha had bad poor eyesight eye eye- sight eight t. t As As tho the to relative merits of or Sullivan an and Jeff said Joe I have sparred with th them mu both oth and ha have hae e soon seen both tJ tight bt Jeff is stronger much muon c cleverer and fully as game tn ta Sullivans Sullivan's time the big men ho bo m met t wore ero cowards Car cowarde Car Cardiff diff if Ryan Eyan SlAde Shide and the rest relSt Sullivan Sulli Sullivan van an had a hard haid time with the little men who were clever clever Mitchell Mitchell Burke and Tu Tug Wilson Wilsen Whon Thon Jeff went cast east on his first visit bo ho was coa coached wrong bent bent over over and and all he could do was to swiD swing his left hand That stooping posture indulged in by our present day men is Only oily good in clinches for short arm wor work You cant can't lead a straight punch When Jeff fought ht Corbett in San Francisco Francisco also also Fitz ho Eithe Eit he ho s stood straight pp up and the they didn't last long on When Whon Sullivan lan met Corbett nt ot Now New cw Orleans had It boon ben Sullivan could cowd not have havo bs lasted d three rounds II Sullivans ans favorite fa blow thon though h not generally knO known n n. n was a ri right ht sW swing Il between be tween the shoulder s the ba back k klung sung lung and not the jaw ja The men ho bo met were afraid of ot him and resort resorted d t to clin clinching chin 1 and John would reach over o-cr and pun punch h them in n tho the back back back-a a very effective blow At Now Xo Orleans Corbett Cor Cor- bett never DOver struck a blow blew until about tho the seventh se round round round-a a left jab Sulli Sulli- yap only hit him once once once-a a a right swin swinon swing on tho the shoulder after aftel being dropped twice tico himself Jim J Jeffrie through studying became a terrible temble body puncher Ho knocked Corbett out in San Fr Francisco with a body blow lIe He hammered Sharkey in the ribs until ho bo cracked them and Sharkey never nc entirely en en- recovered reco from the beatin beating He was never nover able to take eo so much body punishment afterward It wa was with a n. along long left almost straight arm body blow that Jeffries beat Fitz Fita in thc their r last bit San Francisco ti fight ht Fitz told me that he ho saw the blow coming but that Jeffries f gave J. e it a a. peculiar curl that fooled hi hint him shooting it into his ribs instead in ill I stead of Si against his bis jaw Jeff is naturally nat nat- left handed and nud can control that I left arm of his liko like a fencer using a a- a foil al |