The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-12
SILER'S COMPARISON
TIsTIC EXPERT SIZES UP CHANCES
OF C0RBETT AND JEFFRIES.
PICKS JEFFRIEs TO WIN.
NOT LIKELY THAT EXCAVATION
HAS IMPROVED MUCH.

But at the Same Time Jenrtes Will
Have to Use More FOrcibIe Tao
tics Than When He Beat Fitxsfn1-
mOns-With All of His Speed He
Does Not Think That COrbett Can
stop JeTries' Bulk of Bone and
Muscle-BOth Men Are Confident.
George Siler, the fistic expert and
natl Inquirer, has given his opinion
of the merits of the two men who
will contest for world championship
honors at Mechanics Pavilion in San
Francisco Friday night. Siler has
been at the training camps of both
men, and no one is in better position
to venture a prediction on the outs
come of the fight. general sum-
ming up of his comparison is that
Jeffries will be the victor.
Siler says: zone thing is certain,
Jeffries will have to fight along lines
wholly different from those followed
in his battles with Rubin and FItz-
simmons. In both those contests, al
though always moving toward his OPP
ponent and showing eagerness to ex-
change blows, his onward movements
we're slow, and neither Gus nor Bob
experienced the least difficulty in land
ing, nor avoiding whatever blows ne
elected to deliver in return before he
could put on the finishing touch. With
Rubin, despite the fact that ne was
big and strong enough to deliver
Knockout blow, he had nothing TO
fear Gus was timid and showed
lack of confidence from the moment ne
struck a fighting attitude.
His Tackle With Fitz.
I'm Fitzsimmons the champion en-
countered "a more formidable opponent
viewed from a fistic standpoint. Stiil'
jeff walked into him as into Ru Il
He received harder punishment than
in all his previous battles combined,
and with the exception of the knockout
he failed to land an effective punch.
Besides Bob's assumed defensive tac-
tics, which nettled Jeff into more marc
wallops, the punishment Fitz inhlcted
did not. however, retard Jeff's plod-
ticeable extent The possible chance
of landing a decisive blow was ever
uppermost in his mind. The chance
came in the eighth round, when Fltz
with his fighting tools disabled ana
practically useless, Disguised with ms
inability to stop the human hulk OF
bone, muscle, grit and stamina OPP
posed to him from its incessant FOR
ward movement, slipped d cog cy
overreaching, which laid him open to
the solar plexus undoing. In neither
Of these battles did Jeffries snow
enough speed or aggressiveness TO
catch Corbett within twenty rounds In
~ ri
battles Jeff prided himself on his ag-
Rressiveness.
Another Kind of Man.
This time he will contest against
man who outclasses Rubin and
Fitzsimmons at every point of the ifs
tic game, barring hitting powers
man who has all the finer points OF
the game at his finger ends, and VINO
can make use of them; a man VINO
three years ago had the champion up
W the air for nearly twenty-three
rounds before presenting chance to
receive a blow hard enough to put
him out of the runningj a man who, TO
all outward appearances, seems
stronger and to have more stamina,
therefore more fit for twenty ROUNDS
OF the game of fsticuffs than he was
three years ago. In their Coney Is
land battle Corbett played Jeff as a
~ WOulQ play d Il1OuS6. I1C ACAAAeSO
INTO leads, then stepped inside, away
from them. as necessity for doing re-
CURED. Even money that Corbett
would not last ten rounds went beg
ging Still, at the end of the twenty
second round he was apparently as
strong and as speedy as in any of the
earlier sessions.
Jenries Not Improved.
Taking Jeffries' showing in the con-
test, compared with the work against
kunlin and Fitzsimmons. it cannot be
SAID that he has improved. or rather he
nad not up TO and Including the last
nght. either in science or speed. II
Is well known fact that neither Ruiz
nm nor Eitzsimmons, who hit well,
possess the skill of Corbett. The ques-
tlon 10 be argued now is: Has Jeffries
!, improved during the past year, under
tue tutorship Of Fitzammons? II so,