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Show CORBETT KNEW JEFF'S WEAKNESS (By Fred Ford. Philadelphia Even lng Times.) Here is one which will make those who followed the daily reports from the big training camps at Reno, New, open their eves and wonder If the trainers of James J. Jeffries did not realize in the last week of training that they were sending a broken down star to the post to fight the finest machine ho ever faced. Jim Corbett, the chief second. Informed In-formed Ed Smith, the Chicago writer, a week prior to the fight as follows: "Jeff would not box enough nor fast enough." said CorbetL "I tell you I am 4", out of condition, sick and ailing, but he could not hit me once in 10 rounds If 1 did not wish him to do so." Who Are Cornell and Burns? Never was a nail driven into a plank of fact with truer aim or more deadly fcrce than the statement of the former champion, Jim Corbett. Every scribe will tell you that often a champion will whisper some information informa-tion he wants to tell you for your own advantage, . but he expects a promise that you will uot print the statement prior to tho performance where his tip Is to become active; Roger Cornell. Farmer Burns, a pair of wTestlers, almost unknown, were the loudest men in proclaiming Jim Jeffries to be the "old Jeff." When Corbett and Choynski flew In the renr at the approach of the clan of the press the wrestlers piped their lay. Division of Purse Forced. One of the surest reasons that the trainers of the ince mighty Jeffries realized that their chm-ge was doomed doom-ed to defeat was that they forced the purse to be cut GO and 40 per cent, the winner and loser. Even Mike Murphy, the greatest Judge of physl cal condition, switched his dope at the last moinent. He deliberately delayed de-layed to see t the marverous machine, which had been cranked so much by his trainers, would spark at the last moment and whirl into battle the Jeff of old. |