Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

cause / went into his camp three years
ago when he was training for his first
fight with Fitzsimmons, which resulted in
a fiasco, a green, raw man as far as box
ing was concerned. He practiced on me
as human sand bag, and IN very short
time | learned considerable of the art of
self-defense. l was a boiler maker by
trade, hard as nails all over and of that
rugged sort of physique which seems i'm
pervious to punishment. Corbett could
not hurt me, try as hard as he would. BY
the time he had made a second match
with Fitz 1 had improved to such an ex-
tent, practic,ng upon and whipping second
and third raters in the interval, that l
could put up a redhot go with the ex-
pompadour. OF course | was not to
rough" him-that would not do for
subordinate-but he did rough me for all
he was worth. He could not feaze me
little bit, and that discouraged him at
times. but he was cheered up by the boys,
who told him Fitz could stand no such
punishment as 1 did. Before 1 left the
training camp 1 felt it within me that l
could whip Corbett. Billy Delaney, then
Corbett's trainer, afterward my trainer,
and William A. Brady, Corbett's manager,
must have felt so, too, for they success
.vely offered to back me for any amount
of money against Fitz, Sharkey, Corbett
or any man in the world.
l feel satisfied that / can whip clever
F.tz for the same reason that 1 whipped
Peter Jackson and Tom Sharkey and
| Kid Mccoy. The stronger, heavier
more enduring, more rugged man will al
ways, providing he is game and half way
quick, wear down the lighter frazier one,
no matter how active or sktllful the latter
may be. 1 am assuming, of course, that
| the stronger man has a fair knowledge of
science as'well as some speed and that
the other conditions. health, courage, age
/ and fettle, are about equal. The clever,
| slender man of the greyhound type can
! for time cut into his rugged adversary.
1t is like refined steel chipping rough. raw
iron, but the edge will wear off, and in a
! test of strength the steel will snap and
! the iron remain intact. So with the lighter
pugilist. When he tires and can't get
away from his opponent, but is forced to
clinch, jostle and might, the battle begins
to go against him. Even when he wards
off or blocks heavy blows the wearing pro-
cess gradually tells upon him. Contact,
! clashing with the stronger, heavier man.
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| weights.
| 1t is by reason of these .nfallible laws
| of logic that, bar accident, I feel positive
that 1 can defeat Fitzsimmons. Corbett,
Maher and Mccoy, just as Sharkey beat
the last named. feel that l can conquer
| Sharkey, just as l did in San Francisco,
although did not knock him out, because
I 1 am every whit as strong as, If not
| stronger than, he, know every bit as much
| about the game, have the same courage,
endurance and ruggedness, so good judges
! say and have the advantage Of 20 pounds
| in weight five inches IN height and three
inches in reach. l have never been beat
| en- and feel confident that will not be, at
| least not by any of the big men now
| claIaoring for the Championship
| JAMES JEFFRIES.