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Show PUPILS BECOME TOO , ADEPT FOR MASTERS Champion Boxers Develop Their Own Successors. Jim Jeffries "Entered Corbett's Training Train-ing Camp as Awkward Sparring Partner Mike Gibbons Taught O'Dowd Fine Points. Some pupils become too adept foi their masters. Take boxers, for example. ex-ample. Many champions developed their successors without often realizing realiz-ing It. Jim Jeffries entered Jim Corbett's camp as a big, lumbering, awkward sparring partner when the latter was heavyweight champion of the' world. Less than three years later the former sparring partner dropped his teacher for a full count when the latter tried to regain his title, which he had lost to Fitzsiinnions, who in turn was beaten by Jeffries. It was Corbett who trained Jeffries for his championship go with "Ruby" Robert. A year later, when Mike O'Dowd. Corbett met Big Jeff, the tricks that he had taught his former pupil were used against him. Mike Gibbons taught Mike O'Dowd much that the middleweight champion knows of the fighting game today. The two Mikes met In Minneapolis some time ago and O'Dowd defeated his old Instructor. Willie Jackson used to he a sparring partner of Johnny Dundee. Willie studied Johnny's jumping-Jack style, and finally got a chance against the Kalian. He knocked him out In the first round, and since then Jackson has been a topnotcher in the llghtweigh division. Kid McCoy knocked around for a couple of years In the enmp of Tommy Ryan when the latter was middleweight middle-weight champion. The Kid learned all of the tricks in Ryan's bag and then met the champion. He knocked him out In 15 rounds. |