The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-10

BOTH FIGHTERS ARE FIT
JEFF Working Very Hard and Hopes
to Win-viH Take ON Fitzsim-
mons-Madden Confident
OF Rubin.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. Son
Friday next the big championship contest
between Jim Jeffries ard Gus Rubin will
take place in this city. Both men are in
splendid condition, and a great battle is
expected After weeks of hard work over
mountain PATHS adjacent to Hardin
Springs, Jeffries has decided to change
his quarters ACCOMPANIED by Billy De-
laney, Bob Armstrong and his retinue OF
handlers, he will journey to Oakland, and
the balance of his training will be done
III the gymnasium of the Reliance Ath-
letic club there.
Jeffries realizes that he has done enough
OF hard work. From now until the battle
begins he will take matters comparatively
easy so as to take on as much weight as
he can.
The time honored saying, GEIe is a glut-
ton 1or work" fades into insigniicance
when APPLIED to the big boiermaker. With
| the exception of James J. Corbett, no
champion has ever worked so hard for a
contest as has Jeffrtes for his coming en-
counter. He realizes that in Rubin he
has a hard customer, and so wishes to
step into the ring in the pink of condi-
ton.
Out at Blanken's six-mi1e house, not far
from the ocean beach, Rubin, the chal-
lenger, is getting in shape, and from the
hopeful manner in which he refers to his
coming battle one would believe Rubin
and not Jeffries was champion. The big,
robust fellow from Akron has taken. On
about twenty pounds in weight, and good,
solid flesh at that, since he started to in
hale the4oZone of California. To use his
own explanation, The feels as strong as
Yousouf, the terrible Turk Like JEFF
fries, Rubin is an exceptionally hard
hi, iVaau TnId
| has to keep a watchful eye on him on
/ that account.
+ The sale of seats for the contest has
| opened at Harry Corbett's cafe, and there
| has been a rush for choice locations. The
management of the Twentieth Century
Athletic club is well pleased with the
advance sale. as it exceeded their bright
est expectations. The probabilities are
that the Mechanics pavilion will be
| crowded to the rafters when the electric
clock sounds the gong for the beginning
OF hostilities. Orders by mail and tele-
graph have been received from all sec
| lions of the West, and special trains have
| been arranged for.
Jeffries said today: tI am satisfied
| Rubin has greatly improved since our
last meeting. I can say / have also I'M
proved. L am in this business for the
money that is in it, Believing that Fitz-
simmons would draw better than any
body else, I will make my word good and
meet him in December. Should he de-
cline the issue I will not be without a
fight, for Sharkey has already signified
his eagerness to. meet me. I hope, should
he be my opponent, that the question OF
supremacy may be settled once and for
ALL"
Ruhlin's programme today consisted OF
outdoor work entirely. In the forenoon
he took run of eight miles, and in the
afternoon he went over the hills in diff
ferent direction, so as to relieve the mo-
notony of the jog. Besides these runs,
Rubin has introduced into his training
| a mysterious piece of work that Madden
has instructed him in, for the purpose of
meeting a fighter like Jeffries
Neither Madden, Rubin, nor Denver
Ed Martin will describe the system Mad
den says it is an old trick that has been
forgotten, and that he has resurrected it
for the purpose of meeting man of the
| size and style of Jeffries He expects to
| astonish the world, as Jeffries did when
he adopted the crouching tactics that won
him the championship in his fight with
Fitzsimmons.
Billy Madden today said: ''Ruhlin is
in as fine shape today as I have ever
seen him. In fact, / should say his pres
ent condition for the work that is before
him, is very close onto what in my mind
is physical perfection. If he can only