Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02

Coney Island club.
1t has been claimed that the jab of 4
hypodermic needle gave Jeffries the de-
cision in the big fight. The Daily Tele-
graph puts the stories atloat into shape
as follows:
That sudden reversal of form, the
quick. active, aggressive fighting that
succeeded the ~listless defensive work Of
the previous POUNDS, has kept the average
ringsider who was at Coney Island Won
dering what marvellous owe OF r%ecuper-
alton was possessed by Jeffries.
1t seemed abnormal-and it was alb
normal Such a sight has. perhaps, never
been seen in the ring before, and 1t is not
strange that the old-tin,ers were mysti-
fled. Doping" on the rack is not new.
Jeffries, it will be remembered, Was
seized with that tired feeling somewhere
W the tenth and twelfth rounds,
and whereas he had previously been doing
the greater part Of the fighting, he began
from that time TO adopt tactics intended
to preserve him as much as possible from
harm and injury.
He dropped into that low, crouching at
titude that is recognized as the Jeffries
pose, and with his left stuck straight in
front of him he stalled the big Irishman
off as long as possible, and when Sharkey
finally came bulling through his guard ne
invariably clinched the sailor and hung to
LII AIIll SCpdIdlGu ny tIle TcIcIe0.
In the clinches he lay on the Irishman
and thus saved himself and rested, While
also firing his opponent. From the six
tenth to the twentieth he never struck
a blow that landed and resorted solely to
defensive tactics.
During this time he was still the good
flghtlng man. His eye was quick enough.
and he blocked and parted the sailors
blows, but seemed to lack the trength to
counter or lead. That straight left, like
the jibboom of a frigate, was always in
Sharkey's way, and kept Jeffries fairly
safe from the smaller mans rushes. but
1T was evident that Sharkey did break
through the boiler-maker's guard he got
IN blows that hurt, for the boiler-maker
was evidently distressed and smiled like
a man who has learned that his wife has
eloped.
In the nineteenth round Jeffries looked
as though he ouldn last five minutes
and there were remarks all about the ring
to the effect that it was all over and Shar-
Keys bullet-shaped nut would soon be
adorned with the championship laurels.
Sharkey was fighting strongly and ag-
sfesslvely. He was in next to Jeffries as
soon as he left his corner in every round
and stuck to his man like a terrier to a
rat.
In the twentieth round the tables were
turned in a way that surprised men who
nave been watching ring battles all their
lives.
The big, hairy-chested boiler-maker
VINO had gone to his corner like a beaten
man and who had dropped YEARLY and
weakly into his chair, bounded into the
middle of the ring at the tap of the gong
like a big grizzly and from the moment
he reached his feet began fighting and
never stopped.
lie met every rush of the Irishman with
rn111fn1c fhnf Co0t, l,@1 ~
Sharkcy realized in a moment that some
thing unusual had happened and that he
was not fighting the man of the round
before.
He vainly tried to stop Jeffries' blows,
and. failing, began to clinch and butt. and
at every opportunity threw his arms
around the Californian's neck and held
70 MN until forcibly thrust aside by the
referee.
he himself says that at that time he
Wfehched his arm at the shoulder and
couldn't put UP a hard fight, but those
VINO saw the battle smile and say: ut
IS 10 ugh. No such theory will ac-
count for Jeffries' change of form.
sharkey was whipped from the TWEEN
tleth round, but 1t was not until the tWen-
ty-third that he was started going fast.
Then 1t was that Jeffries threw in thos,
hot Wallops that came from below and
landed on the sailor1nan's jaw. Those
two risht-hand uppercuts ended the pre-
tensions of Mr.. Sharkey to the champions
ship, and he never got into the running
from that time on.
In the tWenty-fourth and twentv-6fth
rounds Jeffries kept after him in a fash
Ion that aston!shed everybody at the ring
SIDE. lie never let UP ON the Irishman.
and chased him from side to side. wal
ioplnS him mercilessly and doing all The
lighting. That he did not knock sharkey
out was due to the fact that the greater
part of the time in these rounds was
wasted While the referee was tearing
Sharkey away from his opponents form,
Sharkey Chunk to the boiler-maker like y
vine to an oak, and it frequently seemed
that Sller would have to use a croWbar
10 get the men apart.
Had not The incident of the lost glove
occurred in the last round it is probable
thai Jeffries would have done his deadly
work in the last three minutes.
lie was timed by his seconds to finish
the 1iSht in five seconds, and would in all
likelihood have succeeded but for the
reason mentioned.
The explanation of this remarkable o.
currence is to be found in the doping"
or Jefffies. 1t is told that at the end of
the nineteenth round one of his seconds
s'lppea the point of a hypodermic needle
under the Calfornian,s skin and injected
INTO him a liberal squirt of mixture of
hlt~ro-siycerine, strychnia, arsenic and
caffeine. 49,
1hls was not the first injection, but
tnose previously made were Intended sim
Ply 10 keep the champion going and the
"a uose was Tor the purpose of putting
the ginger into him at once. IF sI,ccaeda5
Macon McCornlick's New York letter. |
There is a cloud upon the horizon of our
hstle Sky which threatens to grow until |
II dafkens the entire armament. The
cloud is in the shape of TIL threat of one /.
ASSemblYmau Lewis that he uiu aa.i..