Show 1 f SKETCH OF JEFFRIES AND OF JOHNSON Sketches Sk of Jeffries and Johnson Jeffries Johnson JohnsonA A Age Aire 35 32 Weight ht Height In Neck Neck oo lS IS Chest normal 46 39 I Chest Cheat expended jOy DOMs 60 s 42 Biceps 16 15 leu 16 1 Forearm 13 H Wrist S 3 10 tt R Reach each 75 72 Waist 3 04 4 Shigh 26 23 3 Calf 17 1 1 15 Ankle Ank 10 9 Fights 20 01 61 G Lost 1 2 Purse 75 per cent to win winner winner ner nor and 25 per pOl cent to loser Moving pictures estimated e to each M When James J Jeffries was born horn years ago ngo April 15 last a fighting man was created He was endowed with everything that goes to make malte up a lighter tIghter right from f the start He did not need to train and school himself to any great ox ex extent tent He had both hoth tho the brain and the brawn and all nIl he lacked was the am ambition to win fame famo as a 3 fighter When Shen 1 Then that ambition did come to him It re required required required but hut two to years for him to van vanquish vanQuish vanquish overt every fighter worthy of con on and make malte tho the champion championship championship ship title one of his personal assets Once he secured It the tho only way Va he could find of ridding himself of the tho burdens it Imposed was to give ghe Iye It away That is what Jeff did with it itHe itlie IL He lie looked over oer the field oC or worthy worth heavyweights with a u view to adopt adopting adopting adoptIng ing ono of them as his heir Eight Bight years sears after his first fight he decided d that Marvin Marln Hart was the ent cut and abdicated In Harts favor One of or the striking things about Jeffries is the fact that it took a great grent deal of argument to convince him that he was a fighting man at all Despite Natures generosity to him in the mat matter matter matter ter of or size and strength he had a strong suspicion all aU tho time lime that he was Intended to be a farmer Through his early O life lito he displayed great gre t fondness fond fondness ness for getting close to nature via a I fishing rod or a gun and spent quite I a bit of time among tho the mountains I IHo Ho developed a decided fondness for country life and ond when he resigned his high state as champion having an annexed annexed annexed enough money through purses moving pictures and stage appear appearances appearances ances to do what he be pleased ho he has hastened hastened toned to a farm fam In Southern California with the Intention of or ending his days as a sort of or country squire Had John Arthur Johnson and the thi color ques question tion tron not interfered with his plans ho he would in all probability have carried out that determination Jeffries was born horn In Carroll Ohio In 1875 1376 but his parents came to Call Cali California brain fornia so soon after his arrival that he be Is looked upon almost as a native of that state slate Little LillIe Is recorded of his doings prior to 1897 beyond tho the fact that ho was a mighty hunter a good boilermaker and a rough and tumble fighter with whom few cared to mix Ho never was an nn amateur lighter fighter The first time lime he entered the tho ring he did so on the spur of or the I moment accepting the challenge of a colored fighter named Hank Griffin because of oC the money he would get got by b defeating the challenger The fight occurred in Los Angeles Cal In 1893 1393 and Jeff accomplished the defeat of the tho colored man In fourteen rounds winding up with an artistic knockout While this victory did not seem to arouse Jeff Ton to any an ambition as a fighter it attracted the attention of fighters to him as a valuable training partner He seconded a middleweight named Billy Gallagher In San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco two years later and Gallagher got him a match in 1896 1396 with Dan Long of or Denver There was a 1000 purse up and Long went to sleep In Inthe Inthe Inthe the second round when Jeffs left en encountered encountered encountered countered his nose It lt was shortly after this that Jim I Corbett began to prepare for his fight with Bob FItzsimmons which gave gwo the latter the championship Harry Corbett Jims brother who was on the lookout for sparring partners sent Jeff Jet up to Carson City Nevada Neada to join Jims training staff Corbett Corbell hammered the tho big follow fully Cully tUIl but hul Jeff was absorbing knowl knowledge edge of o the fighting game Jame through every poro pore These wore were his first real boxing lessons and he took them from froma a master of or the tho craft Within three weeks we after Corbetts defeat Jeff was fn in the ring again on his own hook rook doing away awa with the aspirations of ot two promising heavyweights in quick succession So much had Jeff benefited by bv Cor butts belts training that he was W t marked as asa asa asa a coming fighter at once and a match was arranged for him with Gus GUB Ruh Rub Un of Akron Ohio which was fought In San Francisco In 1897 The fight went twenty rounds to a draw In the same year Jeffries fought Joe a draw He recalls this fight particularly he says s because landed on ou his Jaw tho the hardest blow he ever received H it was ivas a right honder hander and had so much good will behind it that Jeffries never I forgot it That punch was one of or the things that made mado Jeffries call hon honski ski to his aid when he ho decided to re rev return return turn to the ring to fight Johnson During the next year Jeffries began to find out how really strong stron ho was He knocked out Joe Goddard of Aus Aim Australia a hardy tighter fighter with many vic victories victorIes victories tories to his credit followed that up by knocking out Old Peter P ter Jackson in three rounds lounds and making Mexican Peto Pete Everett quit in less than three A draw with Tom S Sha har harcey j Jeer koy cey came caIe In the same year ear and then fight with a jolt to the jaw Jeffs next fight of any an importance was with his old opponent After Mt r ilvo rounds quit Joff JoO had bad learned too much for be between between between tween their meetings Probably the tho greatest amount of oC punishment Jeff ever took and ho he took a lot of it first and last was in his second fight with Fitzsimmons The fight took place In 1902 and Filz Fitz threw all his cleverness and Into the first three rounds Jeffs Jefts face was badly cut ut by b his blows and while Fitz Fita was fresh tho the champion looked like a novice beside him But ho could not nol keep koep it up and amI ho could not seem scam to worry Jeff to any extent In Inthe Inthe Inthe the eighth Jeffs right caught the old champion in tho the stomach his left went to 10 tho the jaw and Fitzsimmons was classed among the tho for Cor good I IThe The second fight figh t with Jim Corbett CorbettI was Jeffs last Important fight In I that fight Jeff showed that lie ho had at I t I r ry hS Y r 74 f fA fw r j A w 4 S ay 4 c 41 r c E ET h T pis f v vj j J 1 t r R 0 7 i c r I 43 I 8 I I f r Jeffries s went v ent to New York bo he was matched to fight two men in one ono I evening The Tho first of those these was Bob Bo Armstrong colored and Jeff data dam damaged aged his hand against the tho big bl black to such an extent that he could not meet Steve ODonnell the HIP other mum man much I to the tho delight of ODonnell friends During this time Bob Boh FIt I was retaining the championship I imade against all comers A match was waB I made between Jeff Jett and Bob at Cone Loney Island In 1599 It was looked upon as asa I a joke as fiS the man who had hall gathered Jim Corbetts scalp sc lp In derisive deI In style ty tyla I was thought to be he able to play wIth the big bib green hand Jeffries J I mons did play with him for nine rounds If Ie there was Aas arty any an part of Jeffs head bead he ho did not hit at will no nobody nobody I body bOd at the ringside could locus the place pla o But In the tenth round lound Fitz tired and In the eleventh rt aft r going I down twice he was unable to tl yet get ot up upa a third time and Jim Jeffrie Jeffries was wn the th Champion of the world I Five months later Jeffries mot met Tom TOlD Sharkey again In a round light fight at al Coney Cone Island I Jeff Joff got a de lip decision cislon over the Ule sailor but he declares that Sharkey Is the gamest man Inan whoever who whoever ever eer entered the tho ring Corbett by bj this time was eager a er to get a 11 match with his former form or sparring partner The fight was arranged arrange and for twenty rounds Jeff took look a 11 terrific amount amo nt of punishment Ho utterly I failed to reach Corbett with his gloves although Corbett battered him I around so freely that the big fellow looked foolish Jeffs Jens seconds told him that he was an beyond doubt unless he lie did something and ind Jeff went out to do In the next round He tore toro after Corbett minding the tho storm of blows bloB that met him no more than he would mind so many man rain raindrops raindrops raindrops drops His left reached mid midsection section in tho round and anda a Il moment later his right ended tho the last learned le tho the boxing game same Pie He outfought Corbett the admitted mass ma mater ter of glove gloe work and footwork at It every over point of tho the game and in the eleventh Corbett went down for the thelast thelast thelast last count This was Corbetts last lall appearance in the ring ling Just prior to his retirement Jeff fought a with Tack Jack Munroe at Butte Bulle It was waD a n rounds affair and Munroe stayed by br flinging clinging to Jeff all the tho time Munroe after the fight claimed he had knocked Jeff Jet down As a matter of ot fact the big man slipped and foil fell but Mt boasted bonsted of his hie alleged i triumph until Jeffs Jolts anger was aroused and another arranged They met In San Francisco and ond Mun Munroe Munroe roe roo went down and out in the tho second round In his preparation for his fight with Johnson Jeffries has done the hard hardest hardest hardest I est training work he was ever eyer known to undergo His methods s have hae been peculiarly his hla own as a rule Ho I Ic went In for bear shooting fishing mountain climbing and anel tho the like and his trainers had little to say about what he did didIn didIn didIn In preparing for Johnson however the retired champion has hns loft no part of his training go for He would not agree to the match until assured by tryout work and the opinion opinion ion of physicians that he was physic physically ph physically ally able ablo to get et In good condition Once assured of that he took up his quarters In the Santa Cruz mountains sixty miles milos south of San Francisco and drilled as he never nevel drilled before I In his camp Jim Corbett volunteer I aid reigned supreme Jeff J err believed Jim was a wise man on matters mallers con connected connected with tho the care caro of the body bod and he heeded the tho former champions words Joe kl was also thoro there and nd Bob Armstrong g All I three th ee of or them were victims ViCtim 8 of or Jeffs handiwork In times past but they worked hard I to tl prepare preparo him for tor his last great bat battle battle tle lie Among Joo Joe unrecorded ed battles Is 15 the defeat via n a knockout of Jack Johnson It was during a fl fight at Galveston on in 1892 Farmer Burns was another of oC tho the training squad He is ls a wrestler of or considerable repute and not a day dUyo dayot of training passed but Jeffries engaged en ged him In a struggling hauling haulin hefting g match h hEight Eight years ago when Johnson be began gan gnu to loom on the thu pugilistic horizon he urged bin hio managers to make every effort to arrange for a fight with Jef Jet Jeffries Jeffries fries Jeffries cant touch me was wan his boast even in those days and ho fretted trotted over the fact that until acquired a reputation his hl prospects for a n championship battle batlle were but as gauzy as tho the tell tall t U of o Hal H l leys comet Ho He says saya ho believed belle d then as confidently in his hh ability a to ahoi ve the lime title LIllo as he did lId six years cars later lator I when at last his opportunity to battle ii 4 i for the tho supreme prize was realized 1 It was not my fights themselves I but my m fight light to got get those fights that proved the hardest part of the I I struggle Johnson told The Associated Associated aled Press In recounting his difficulties difficulties ties In reaching tho the pinnacle ph nacle of or his ambition It was my color They Tho told me mo to get a rep but how was vas I Ito Ito Ito to get are a re without meeting fighters of or class But I mado them tight fight me meI I kept plugging along snapping up what chances to fight I could grab until tho the saw that sooner or later Intel have to take tako mo me on As soon as I r gad nad shown what I could do the fight public most of oC the fans anyway tok sides with me and that th t helped a whole lot Johnson asserts that he has never been apprehensive of possible defeat de teat In any an contest cont st he has engaged In InNone inNone None Nono of or them he ho declares had any an terrors for him Hl HI Hig four most have been fought within the last year and a half halt dating d from his defeat of or Tommy Burns in Australia December 26 1908 1903 Having wrested the tho cham sham championship championship from Burns he determined to meet and defend his title against all comers His fights tights with Philadel Philadelphia phia Jack OBrien Al Kaufman Koufman and Stanley Stanle Ketchel followed In rapid r pid succession suc succession succession cession I IOn On his fights two or three years be bOo before fore that had brought him prominence prominence nence and helped him along greatly In his career his contests with Sam Langford Lansford tho the Boston BOB ton negro Joo Joe Jeanette Jeanotte Sam Den Denver Demer er Ed Martin JarUn Jim Flynn and others John Johnson son Bon lays no particular stress except to regard them as so many man rungs of or his ills ladder of success Im looking for a fight asserted Johnson In which I really can let lut myself out and show the tho public just what I can do Thaes ono one reason why Im so anxious to go up against Jeffries Johnsons declaration sustains the I judgment of numerous sporting sparling writ writers ers who have maintained for years that the big negro seldom If Ir over evor ex extended extended tended himself and was capable of oC striking harder blows than he ho has ev ever ever evor er or delivered In the ring It appears to havo have been a n general belief bellof that Johnson was holding back This was particularly noticeable In his re recent recent I cent fight with Stanley Stanle Ketchel In III that bout Johnson toyed with his man manall manall manall all the way He Ho seemed Doomed to think the tho fight a joke joko until a slip elip and a timely punch brought him to his knees and aroused his anger Just what hap happened next has never been clearly known It was too fast to watch and In an Instants time limo Ketchel was wason wason wason on his back and being counted out He did not seem to realize what had struck him and Johnson himself seemed astonished at tho the result of or his sudden exhibition of strength and speed 1 Johnson was born in In 1878 his birthday being March 31 and if ring experience goes for any thing he has It In 1901 his first year oar as a fighter he be fought s 81 six fights winning all but one which was a adraw adraw adraw draw The Tho next neat year he went Into the tho ring sixteen times and from then thon on was almost constantly engaged until to t date he has hns to hla hig credit over sixty battles While many of ot his hi opponents have havo not of the style to test his mettle his frequent bouts havo have served served served ed at least to keep him DIn always In training and this is one of the tho strong arguments of or his partisans Temperamentally Johnson Is an In Interesting Interesting Interesting study His chief character |