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Show ; j1'"' S- BROWN OF CHICAGO NATIONALS. HESS OP CLEVELAND. LEEVEB OF PITTSBURG. THREE GREAT BASEBALL PITCHERS HT CHARACTERISTIC TWIRLIHQ POSES. "BILL" SQUIRES IS NO liSTCH fOR CHAMPION ! JEffRIESSAYS WALSH - 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4- 4 4- . .4. 'Bill" Squires, the Australian heavy-weight champion who has ;'ust 4 4 come to this country, is no match for James J. Jeffries, the American 4 4 king of the big pugs, says Jimmie Walsh, the popular bantam-weight 4 4 champion, of Boston. Certainly Walsh 's opinion is worth considering just 4- 4 now for he has spent the past six months on the Burbank farm of Jef- 4 4 ries in California, for botn are warm friends. Walsh has seen Jeff in 4 4 action many times; he has had an. excellent opportunity to see how the 4 4 big fellow takes care of himself outside the ring, and he knows what con- 4 4 dition the alfalfa farmer is in now. The little champion also saw Squires 4 4- work in, fighting togs soon after his arrival from Australia, and his opin- 4 4 ion is given below. 4 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4. (BY JIMMY WALSH.) Take it from me, Champion Jim Jeffries will knock the stuffing out of Bill Squires if they meet in the ring, which is likely, for Jeff has told me repeatedly while I was visiting him on his ranch that be will fight the Australian champion - provided Squires makes good with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Tommy Burns and other heavy-weights of a similar class. Then Jeff also insists upon a suitable purse. his lungs dally, leaves him the picture of health and strength. "Big Jim" is the soul of hospitality and very democratic in all his actions. He seldom cares to sit down to the table unless his men are there with him. Jeff rarely ever talks on the prize ring; he seems satisfied to leave that subject to others for discussion. He does, however, how-ever, keep in touch with all that is going go-ing on in the world and he is not slow to; express his opinion of men and things. His oninion of Boosevelt is of the nighest, and he feels that when Teddy has finished out. his term at the White House he will have accomplished more good than any President of the country has ever done. Hughes the new Governor of New York, is another man admired by the "big fellow," and he is sure the country coun-try will develop more of his like in the near futnre. In speaking of Rockefeller- and his methods, Jeff thought that Congress would some day pass laws to prevent the accumulation of such heaps of money as tho oil man and Carneeie have gathered. After a brief talk on the railroad question he expressed the belief that there would Squires is a natural born fighter. He has every requisite of a fighter, and while I believe he might have it on Jack O'Brien, Tommy Burns and fighters fight-ers of that caliber, I am certain that Jeff will have no trouble in hanging the Indian sign on the Australian. Don't make the mistake of thinking that Jeffries is "hog faXVjhat be could never train again, or that U would be physically impossible for him to get in shape to fight again. Jeff is naturally a heavy man. I should say that he weighs 250 or 260 pounds as he stands today, but, if hp weighs 300 pounds, it is 300 pounds of solid 'flesh, little surplus' flesh and not the slight est sign of obesity. He is hard as nails, active, strong, in as perfect physical condition as he ever was. He would probably fight better if ho took off twenty-five or thirty pounds, and for a man of" his weight it would take him some time to do that, but he could do it, and would be the Jeffries of old. As I look "at him and then at boxers like Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, the contrast is so striking that I know that Jeff is as invincible today as he was when he beat Fitzsimmons or Corbett. Jeff is not any tod anxious to get back to the ring, for he has taken to the "simple life" on the farm like a duck does to water. But the big champion cham-pion Is determined to defend his title, and be will come forward as soon as he Is satisfied that there Is an opponent for him that la worth fighting. Away from the glittering lights of the big cities, Jeff as in retirement on his ranch. There, with Mrs. Jeffries, he spends his time among his alfalfa fields. Lnd maybe he hasn't a big ranch, too! I was simply overwhelmed when ' he first showed me about. Tons and tons of alfalfa stored away for the market, while there are tons and tons of it crowing. Then there were plenty of . chickens, pigs and cowsand a fine lot they are, too, especially the cows. Jeff is a keen lover of nature and finds more real pleasure in his outdoor life in one day than he could get out of a year's life in the city. His long tramps over the mountains of southern California looking for game have added more power to his massive legs; this, together with breathing the pure air of that grand country Into be an awful rounding up throughout the various lines, and that the na-. tional Government would eventually supervise their operations. He does not believe the Government will own the roads, neither does ho think they should. Should he be called upon to meet anyone any-one again within the squared circle, It would require but little work to pre-pare pre-pare him for the combat. His magnificent magnifi-cent constitution and the sensible mode of living which he follows have helped him to retain the great powers that made him the marvelous fighting machine ma-chine he Is. He believes the cities are good places for a man in his line to make a fool of himself in, and I guess he is pretty near right, judging from the way manv past champions have gone before him. After one gees the way this great man la passing his time, it Is little wonder that he feels that the year's salary of the Chief Executive of this Nation would be the least that would bring him between the ropes again for another an-other fight. |