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SPECTACULAR FINISH
CORBETT PLANS To WEAR JEFF
DOWN IN EARLY STAGES.
IS ALSO AFTER A KNOCKOUT.
SAYS CHAMPIONS ONLY CHANCE is
TO RUSH HIM FROM START.

Jim Will Depend on His Fast Foot
Work to Keep Him Out of Reach
of the Mighty Swings of the
Champion, and Expects to
Smother Him With short StifT
Jabs-COrbett Outlines His Policy,
and Explains How He Expects to
Get the Rest of His Big Opponent.
Corbett has at last outlined his
scheme of battle for his clash with
Jeffries. 1t is highly spectacular, for,
like all Thespians, the worlds former
champion has fine eye for the dra-
matte. The plan is not entirely new.
1t is the one framed for the boiler
makers undoing at Coney Island. That
it failed in it's purpose was due to the
untimely jolt that put Corbett out in
the twenty-th third round.
THE last two or three rounds of our
coming fight will live in pugilistic his
tory" says Corbett, providing, of
course, we are both there that long.
l shall then force the fighting, and
take a chance on a knockout. 1 meant
to do that at Coney Island before he
got to me with that accidental jolt.
Until the eighteenth, 1 shall be con-
tent to outpoint him, and wear him
down by continuous rain of hard
blows, which he, in his clumsiness, will
have no means of avoiding. In the
last two rounds shall cut loose, and
give the public a chance to see one
iy1 Y-iy, or
annals.
Wants "a Full Victory.
ct don't want a technical victory.
1t won't satisfy me merely to stay and
get the verdict because 1 am clever
enough to hit him oftener than he can
reach me. 1 know that sportsmen do
not want such a champion. L am go
ing to try to finish him. This is no
small job. That great frame, with its
coating of muscle, is not to be brought
down with one blow. The only way to
knock out Jeffries will be to reduce
him to such state of exhaustion that
when the blows come fast he will go
down just as Sullivan did, because
he is too weak to stand any longer.
Don't YOU think it rather incau-
tious to tip him off in advance as TO
your plans? Isn't it about like tele-
graphing your bloWs?" he was asked by
an interviewer.
mot in the least. for Jeffries al
ready understands that 1 am going
to wear him down, rather than at
tennpt to slaughter him in one round
He knows, too, that his only chance
is to rush me and win out quickly
And this he cannot do, for my defense
is most effectual against a man Whc
is fighting wildly and trying to dro[
me regardless of what l am dong tc
him.
depend upon it, there will be some
thing to see in those last two ROUNDS
Speed against strength, both OF III
| fury inspired, and battling for a tltl'
worth a fortune to it's holder, should
make boxing worth the while"
COrbett willing to Bet.
Corbett has made the statement tha
he intends to back himself when NJ
meets Jeff. He says he has $lO,OO'
that he will put up at the preValllhs
odds of to 3.
eft would please me better to be
called the champion again than any
thing else" said Corbett. Il will be
called champion, too, on the night OF
the 14th.
Il know there are lots of smart TEL
lows who think 1 haven't chance on
earth with Jeffries, but they don't stop
to study the form, as it were.
my other fight with him was re-
garded as such a walkaway for the
champion that the attendance was
spoiled. Still I'd like to know who gave
him a harder fight than l did.
IT was hurt with crippled hands,
too. for 1 hurt my left while boxing
with Rubin, and my right went wrong
when 1 struck Jeffries on the head in
one of the early rounds.
ut was the merest chance in the
world that he nailed me in the twenty
third round. I had outboxed him for
twenty rounds and I was nursing my
hands for a ding-dong finish, when he
caught me all tied up near the ropes.
Il was in good condition then, and
will be even better when we meet
again. l feel in my bones that can
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