The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-04
MAY LAST The LIMIT
Jeff MAY NOT LAND ON CORBETT
WITH KNOCKOUT.
FAST SPRINTING POWERS
,,,v KEEP CORBETr OUT OF DAN
GER OF CHAMPIONS SWINGS.

corbett's only Chance Is to Win
Decision on POints-Ide" That
rifle Cannot he Won on Points
l. Erroneous - Jeffries win
change His Training Quarters
the Latter Part of the Week-COr-
bctt Will Remain Where He Is.
THE latter part of this week Jim
1affries will move his training camp
AZ Hardin Springs to the Reliance
Athletic Club in Oakland. There the
champion will put on the finishing
touches of his work for the contest at
Mechanics pavilion on the night of the
l4th.
linn Corbett will stay right where
he is until the evening of the fight.
He is training in Crolps Garden, in
Alameda, across the bay from San
Francisco 1t is the same place where
Terry McGovern trained for his fight
with Young Corbett last winter.
The question which is being pro-
Rounded among those interested in the
coming contest is. can man win the
title on points?
The supposition among the followers
of Ieffries is that if Corbett hits and
runs away and continues so doing
throughout the twenty rounds, the linn
it of the contest, and thereby secures
the greater number of points he can
rot be declared the winner because he
did not stand in one spot long enough
to give Jeff a chance to knock
him out. 1t is on the sup
POSITION that Corbett. because of his
known boxing skill and his speedy foot
work, will with plenty of ieeway which
Fhe twenty-four-foot ring provides,
easily avoid Jeffries' sledgehammer
blows and in the interim score enough
clean hits to become the heavyweight
champion. That, despite reports to the
contrary. will undoubtedly be his plan
of battle. as he cannot hope for sue
cess by standing toe to toe and ex-
changing wallops. The eX-champion
when in his prime, never carried
knockout punch in his gloved mitts,
and It is not suspected of him now.
His fifteen months of daily exercise
Of which so much has been printed
may have added muscle to his anat-
Omy. and developed his hitting powers,
but neither to warrant his exchanging
blow for blow with the burly cham
pion. Beside which Corbett is too good
a ring general and is too we'll aware
of the fact that one blow from Jeff will
more than offset a half dozen of the
best he has in his fistlc makeup. He
is also aware he cannot deliver as hard
a blow as can Fitzsimmons, who hit
the champion at will, cut his face into
ribbons, and then could not beat him.
knowing this he will fight along the
most careful lines to be on his feet and
ready to continue when the final gong
clangs There is not the least doubt he
will be in better condition than when
he met Jeffries at Coney Island, upon
which occasion he had all the better
Of the milling for twenty-five rounds,
and was settled in the twenty-third.
His continuous daily exercise must
have benefited him greatly, but it is
doubtful if he can change his style of
fighting even though he has the
strength and hitting powers to do so.
He might possibly hit Jeffries harder
than he did in their Coney Island fight,
but that would not, judging from the
way Fitzsimmons pumped them into
jeff. be hard enough to stop him. There
is such thing as binding man with
continual jabs, after which punish him
at will, and if Corbett can do that
there is nothing to prevent him be-
coming champion.
That it will be a fast fight there is
no doubt, and Jeff will have to go some
to keep apace with the speedy Cor
bett
Stories which look we'll in print, but
in which little or no reliance is placed,
are still being sent out from their re-
spective training camps. First came
the story that Jeffries was bitten by
one of Fitzsimmons's pet animals, and
that blood poisoning was feared, which
would necessitate a postponement of
the fight. Then it was reported that,
at the last moment, Fitzsimmons would
be substituted. Following this it was
said Jeff was not and would not train
until two weeks before the fight, and
later it was said he was working like
a Trojan and fit to enter the ring on
twenty -four hours notice, and all to
draw attention to the fight, which was
needless, of the world at large. There
is. no question the men are training
hard, and will be as fit as the proven
bal fiddle when they step into the
ring, and that is about all the public