Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-01
Jeffries Says He will Enter Ring if
He Is Carried There.
CORBETT Is CONFIDENT.
Champion il criticised for His Peeu'
liar Training Methods one Way
Corbett Can win.
speelal Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
SAN Francisco, July So.--Into the Of
Zee OF the Yosemite club telegrams
have poured asking u there was any
likelihood OF the Corhett-Jeffries con-
test being postponed The club an
nounces on the authority Of James j,
Jenrles himself that there win be none.
Jeffrles continues to show heat%hen-
ever 1t Is suggested that he desired a
postponement Of the match. From Cor
belts quarters came the report that
the champion was only too willing to
plead sore leg TO delay the match.
Tommy Ryan's utterances on this sub
ject were In owlse calculated TO mol
ICY the huge boilermaker.
u Will be In the ring on the night Of
Aug. IA II they have to carry me there, "
he sGdd yesterday. And there Is no
danger Of that happening. Some peo-
pie persist in saying that have not
been paying proper attention to my
training. TO all these carpers ! say now
that | viii be I'm as good condition az
ever was for any match IN my me-
There Is only one chance Corbelt mas
OF defeating me, and that Is by eaten
ing me out Of condition. IL / had not
been IN the best OF shane he may have
won the New York contest Tel my
friends not TO fret.
Despite all this the champion Of the
world has not trained as his cnlet
adviser Billy Delaney would wish. FOR
DAYS he would do an amount OF work
that was considered phenomenal TO the
guests az Hardin Springs. THIS would
give way 10 days Of ideness when bear
hunts and visits 20 surrounding resorts
would be In order.
Jeffres Is without doubt the most
rugged specimen Of humanity nature
has furnished and he has 70 thank ma
turo for many OF the qualifications that
have won him the Championship EN-
perienced judges OF condition are not
loo sangune that a great big chap Ike
.Jeffries can cram into three weeks
training that should have been distriD-
utd over three months.
Fitzslmmons says that the condition
Of the champion satisfies him, and adus
that Jeffries could defeat Corbett with
out days training But the lean Cor.
nishman perhaps forgets that In an In
tervlew an hour after the last fight In
New York he attributed Jeffries' VIC
tory 10 the most foolish Of over-conii-
dence on Corbett's part In that Inter
view he said: 1T was case OF cart
hnrse versus racehOrse and the race
horse lost through sheer oyer-conii-
dence Up TO the time Corbett was
knocked out I could not see how he
could lose
Against the champions slipshod
training methods is the steady course
for a year past Of the man who hopes
10 win back the worlds championship,
For over n year he has followed sys-
tematic course OF exercising which be
claims will bring him into the ring IN
perfect physical condition. For two
months now he has been following "a
daily routine in full view OF the thou
sands who have visited his quarters
Corbett says he never was IN cohdltioh
I'm his career for any Of his contests ca
cept those with Peter Jackson ana John
/, Sullivan. He makes the excuse for
his failure TO be In proper shape the
other things he has appeared In the rms
tndt ne thouHnN HuCNNH0lul "''N'l'iV .
certain that he hated 70 knuckle 10 the
conditioning process. This excuse car
hardly apply TO the last contest win
Jeffres as he must have known or tht
danger Of meeting a man the sporting
public al that time did not concede him
more than one chance In ten OF defeat.
ing. But It has often been said that
Corbett used TO floor the present
worlds champion daily during theil
boxing bouts In Carson when Corbeti
was training for Fltasimmons and new
err allowed for any Improvement Any
wa/ he Is taking no chances or indulg
Ing In any dreams Of easy success TINS
time and promises to electrify the pub
lie with the speed he win show when h,
faces Jefirles as well as the punching
power he says he now possesses.