The San Francisco call., 1899-07-07


1T feels bully to get back, he SAID, me
glad smile on his face corroDoratlhg HiS
words fro never fHe quite and rgnS Ton Ti bet
I'm glad to get home again. Say, but
it's hot back there. Why, those people
laugh at you when you tell them about
the climate out here They think you're
filling them. Sure.
you're looking fine. Jim" said one OF
his friends. II guess that Yale professor
didn't size you up right when he said you
were all burned out.
What. that fellow? I guess he didn't;
Why. he never MADE an examination ,,' Oh
agination. How could he tell anything
from the time he had? We were just
Conn where | had umpired the game,
and was still in my tights after giving
boxing exhibition, when Seedy looking
individual wearing soiled looking ceIlu-
Ioid collar came up and said he was Pro-
fessor Seaver of Yale and wanted TO eX-
anime me- He said he had examined
many other athletes and wanted 10 get
nv measurements. That night we were
booked for the New York casino ana
hadn't a minute t. spare 70 MAKE me
train. 1 explained that would nave peen
Iyllung to Ubnge the professor, but uhder
the circumstances could not. II meant
hundreds of dollars to me, sald, ana
stranger. He walked around mutterlns
and grumbling, and l finally allowed hlIll
to measure my chest That's al ne got;
and if he can tell that mans burned
out by passing a tape over chest ne
entitled to the information"
In response to a remark that he looked
to be lighter than when he went East
the champion said he was ,.,,,
''It's not all due to the heat, either,
he said, the twinkle in his eye matching
that Of the big. solitaire on his expansive
Brady. He didn't do a thing but make
me work I've been at it every day since
I've left here and even now. when 1 ar
rive and expect a rest, | get a telegram
from him that I must sail from New f0fK 11.fIi
on the 9th or else all engagements Will
be off l didn't want any European trip
and told Brady 50, but | guess ne e., gone
ahead ard IN have to follow sult, ,,bo+ 10
ahead of him in England is as Xag@9e gu as as
that Of the general public He Is Is OF the the
opinion that he will meet Mitchell in the
second week of August, and while 1t IS
evident that he does not look upon the
contest as one TO test his powers, he says
I'll train for Mitchell" he said, Just
as hard as | would for anybody else
my fights, for if you don't work you cant
fight. 1 know at any rate the more work
/ do the better | fight.
How long will you train for your fight
with Sharkey' he was asked.
Ross O'Neal,. who was near by, broke in:
York when we left that the sailor
wouldn't sign: They don't think he wants
oh. l guess he WILL" said Jeffries.
He wants to fight all right. Some peO-
pie think he don't but l do, although
chased him all over the East and broke
nv arm on Armstrong trying to get to
him. 1 want TO meet him and get him TO
make good some of the nasty things he
has said about me. / never SAID anything
bad about him, except maybe to some per
sonal friend. when l was hot at what
Sharkey was saying about me. All / want
to do is get him to make mis- talk good.
Outside the ring I'll treat him like any
| body else"
A few minutes later. in speaking Of
Fitzsmmons, Jeffries was telling what a
wonderfully strong, big man the Cornish
said, "a good deal harder than Sharkey
and he's a bigger man physically than
many people believe"
No, l didn't hurt my hands on him"
he said in response to a question I've
learned trick or two to save them.
punch this way now, ne continued,
knuckles up. 'and not this way (knuckles
to the sde). 1 learned that from Tommy
RYAN. You can drop one OF them on a
man before he knows it and the whole
weight of your body goes with it. The
other way you telegraph your blows"
Jeffries denies tlat he is anxious to
When do You go on the stage?" he was
asked
When Brady tells me to-" was his
laughing reply, narrowly escaping Il
mouthful of lather from the brush of the
barber who had managed by this time
to get the champ stretched on an arm
chair in his bedroom, a pillow for
headrest.
II think the piece is called The Rough
Rider and I'm told l come in on a
burro.
And the fighter laughed so heartily at
the conceit that the barber nearly landed
an uppercut on the point of his jaw.
There was a continual stream of callers
in the room until 4 o'clock, the most
notable being Master of Every Prize Ring
Ceremony Billy Jordan, who had been
smisled by the Southern Pacific bulletins
to cross the bay to the Sixteenth-street
station just in time to see the train bear
ing Jeffries pull out for the mole An
a bright-looking boy of, sixteen on
crutches, whom jeff grasped by the hand
/ adn,irer of the champion and has seen
him in every fight he has had in this city;
/ At o'clock newly shaved, Jehrles ana
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