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Show -V I - ' " ; O OV-r-o -i -i -i -4 . v O O V- L .rv . Cc:-::::rd TtvIcc ria!:cs Cslifcnmn -Lejatec cf Els Pugilistic Science. ;f.V TORI;,. Feb-. 2T. -Robert Fitz-"'n,0,ls Fitz-"'n,0,ls ln a hijned article bequeaths ' Janus J.. Jeffries all his science and -''I as a t fighter. F-y so. doing he 'a-n- vhat 3 probably the most ex--c-rdinaiy legacy on record.' Fitz-";'"ir,rin Fitz-";'"ir,rin Kays in tart: ' '!:si:z!j that - I am no longer- a "in, and that all battles are not only the strong:, but to the youns. I have "H ted the man tvhom I regard as the lifted in oil. the 'world to take up w ork I shall t-oon lay aside. ' vho is fitted by. nature to succeed P , f v -. - ..... -, "Who has the strength? 3'ho has th beart? " , '--' ho has the punch? t ho .has 'jtit science? ' ; - - 'I name frames J., Jeffries of Calif or- an American. - ..-"Th.--first three r theM- marvelous-f marvelous-f -V; t03owme'nta he Inherited irom rt ft.Viy ancestry the, strength, the . id the punch. . - ; 'le. the last Tossessloii, -If Rob-: ''t Uzelmmons, his friend,' bestoNved ;71n him as a mark of my admiration. "Jeffries put m? down and out twice nee in New York,' once inVFrlsco. He the only living man who has accjom-il.shed accjom-il.shed this.-, I -feel toward-thta youth as a rrian would .toward his ton.. lie has grown up under my eye. so to epeak.. I have found him to be the port of man that I could afford to leave behind be-hind rri"3 as .my representative In the ring;. 1 studied him for a lonjr time be- I fore 1 decided to place in hia strong hands thevolume of pugrllistie knowledge knowl-edge that" I have-been compiling: secretly se-cretly for the last twenty years. How worthy he is to receive this legacy the whole world will know when he enters the ring again. No living man can beat him. . - ... "By day and by night I have drilled him in all the tricks, all the maneu-. vers, all the openings, all, the science. Little by little I have transmitted to him those things that have become mine through twenty years of fighting in .the ring. Piece by piece J gave this man, my heir, the wisdom and the skill I had won with my own head and hands, and today he is two In one. ' ; "To his courage I added craft. ' r "To his strength X added agility. " "To his. method I added science. ; VTo his style I added generalship. --."To his youth I added the wisdom of old age. "The combination Is-'perfect '"I have created a masterpiece. Where lives hla equal?" t |