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Show SPORTS jWsfms to keep bate; BEN I).MON'D. Cal., June S. Onc3 again Jtm Jeffries did no; Jive up to his program and for the first tlnio the Initial boxing bee between the bis fellow fel-low and "Oentlema.n Jim-' Corbclt was unexpectedly postponed tody. The open air r!cg. an exct - copy of the one iu which Jeffries and Johnson wl'.l Bettle the championship on July 4, had received the final touch, Corbett was on hand and everything w.vs ready except Jen'rie? who took a puddeu notlun that he wanted to go fishing, and fishing ho went, accompanied accom-panied ty a party of friends. The most kt-enlv disappointed of the larg number of camp visitors on hand were a bunch of eastern newspaper news-paper men, several of whom had traveled nevus the continent and ex- i p?cted to get a line on Jeffries today In bis boxing bout with Corbett. Jef-frie?s Jef-frie?s left la the iimming and promised prom-ised to return by noon, so many of the visitors nlt-d. I'.tit the big fellow fel-low forgot his promise or found the fishing yo good that be decided to make u day of it and did not return tntll tonight. The real reason v. hy Jeffries has been reluctant to do more boxing ibis J week Is a slightly epraiucd thumb. An effort has been made to k-ep this quiet and attribute the frequent postponing post-poning of the sparring v.Jth Corbett to Jeffries" whims, but the fact remains re-mains that tho big fellow Injured Ms thumb a week aeo and has done no boxing since. Trainer Cornell declared de-clared that the thumb Is healed, but Jeffries has apparently been unwilling unwill-ing to take any chances with II. That he would positively Mkx tomorrow to-morrow was the promise made by Jeffrle3 to Cornell today. "1 11 spar every day for the next two weeks," be told the trainer. "Sometimes I'll box twire a day tnd Ihen the next any I'll do nothing but light work." The camp forrm-d inlo a bucket brigade bri-gade last night and fought a bush Pre which started v.lthln a few yards of t!ic garage where several automobiles, Includlugs Jeffries', are .kept. (Continued from Page Two.) '. ' ; j 1 giand circuit meet, to bo licll here I.ahor dny wwk, were made public today. There are 17 entries for the 2:0!) (rot, $10,uuu purse. In the 2:J6 tioi I'r amateurs there are IS entries |