The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-08
BETS ON HIMSELF
GUS RUHLIN wAGERs HALF A
THOUSAND ON BIG
FIGHT
ODDS STILL FAVOR JEFRIEs
Tommy Ryan Picks Champion to
Win, but Thinks Rubin Will
Show Strong, and Has
Good Chance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7-Ruhlin is
the first of the two heavyweights who
will fight for the championship to bet on
himself The bet is a $500 to $500 invest
ment, with the Akron man on the short
end. 1t is worthy of note that to l was
the most liberal price forthcoming when
Jeffries was installed favorite over Rubin
on the event of their former contest in
San Francisco. There was very little of
that either, the bulk of betting INDUCED
in being on a 10 to basis. Whether the
Odds on Jeffries will remain at 10 to 4
for the coming fight remains to be seen.
A very few days now will establish the
relative market values of the burly bruis-
ers.
Tommy Ryan, of Kansas City, who was
once Jeffries' sparring partner and adj
wiser general in regard to all champion
ship functions, admits that he believes
Jeffries will win, but says that Rubin
has a royal chance. Writing to friend
in San Francisco, Ryan says:
Rubin has improved greatly as box
er, and it will be hard for Jeffries to
keep Ruhlin's left away from his face
Among other things, Ryan declares that
Jeffries was weary armed before he had
boxed many rounds with Corbett, and
this, in spite of the fact that he was as
we'll trained for that battle as for any
of his previous fights and appeared to be
as fit as fiddle upon entering the ring
Rubin had liSely day of it working,
before the camera He found that doing
the training stunt before a moving
picture was not as soft a job as he
thought it would be. For two hours
Rubin worked out before the camera,
and did not omit single training stunt
The camera was set upon the road out
side Blanken's, and Rubin did all his
work in open air. He went through it
with his usual snap and vim. It was not
mere show-off before the camera, but a
session of hard training. Rubin cut out
his usual road work.
AS result of resting on Sunday and
drinking lots of water, Jeffries scaled 226
pounds yesterday. He said he felt logy
when he arose in the morning, but
thought this feeling would disappear as
soon as he took UP his daily gymnasium
work After playing handball he punched
the bag. In the midst of this exercise he
told Trainer Billy Delaney he felt lazy,
and thought he would do no more indoor
W ork
Jeffries said he had visited the neigh
boring springs and sampled all waters to
be found within a radius of two miles,
and as a result grew heavier. In order
to take off extra weight and return to his
normal condition the champion donned
heavy clothing in the afternoon and went
on the road.
Jim Egan drove a fast horse to pace
the big fellow. Jeffries returned three
hours later soaked through and through
with perspiration. After being rubbed
down with coarse towels, Jeffries mount
ed the scales and, much to his satisfac-
ton tipped the beam at 2141s pounds. He
felt proud of his achievement of taking
off twelve pounds in an afternoon.
Jeffries is satisfied with his condition.
He says he proved to his own satisfac-
ton yesterday afternoon that he is in
shape. Jeffries will probably leave here
for Oakland, Saturday and finish his
training at the Reliance club.