The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-24
WILL 1T TAKE COLLEGE
MAN TO DEFEAT JEFFRIES7
Frank Hart Relieves Athletes Could
More Probably Devote Their
Time to BoxinR Than Football.

Although we hear much about the i'm
possibility of finding man to defeat JEFF
fries said Frank Hart yesterday, Il be-
lieve there is one set of men, among
whom we could find tough opponent for
the champion, and that is among the
college athletes of the country
If college men would give the same at
tention to lighting that they do to foot
| Dali. they would cause a revolution in the
sport. Suppose Hogan of Yale or Dewitt
OF Princeton mad expended three or four
years learning the fine points of boxing.
Wouldn't he have been likely to apply his
knowledge more scientifically than a big.
clumsy fellow like Jeffries, who has poor
education and learns things only by hav-
ing them punched into him?
! Then. how about the revenue of the
| game. III Hogan or Dewitt were as well
| SHOWN as amateur boxers as they now are
plenty of change to pick up a big end of a
SIoW0 purse for a fight with the cham
pion: wouldn't the house that would turn
out tor such contest be record-breaker?
1t IS all right to talk about the game
being brutal. and that no gentlman would
go into 1t. a few years ago a gentleman
would have considered himself degraded
| OF Michigan, man independently liked
In this worlds goods, keeps teaching the
game for the love of it.
Phe stage was considered disgraceful
as an occupation short time since. But
many college men go on the stage nova
days Professional baseball was tough
game decade ago. But we have college
men now on all the teams
If they take up these branches of work.
isn't it silly piece OF affectation to keep
out of pugilism: Just think of the money
they could make if they had any, ability
at all. An intelligent fellow could walk
al over lot of these men who now hold
the center of the pugilistic stage. Would
thick,headed guy like Peter Maher have
inst ,taII,
fellow of natural gameness, with fair box
IF some of those leading football play
ers would take up pugilism. they would
find it big source Of revenue. They
would have to devote several years to the
game, of course-about the same time
they, give to football. But il they spent
one-half the time learning boxing that
they do on the gridiron and would employ
equally competent teachers, / believe that
the big Eastern colleges could produce
world-beaters."
Jack Munro passed through Chicago day
before yesterday on his way to Butte,
where he will spend the Christmas holi-
days. Not only is Munro hopeful concern
ing his match with Sharkey, which will
take place somewhere in the East, but he
also believes he has chance with Jeffries
after he gets through with the Sailor.
Whether he will get through with
Sharkey or whether Sharkey will get
through with him is a matter for time to
show. 1t don't take much to make Munro
optimistic. apparently, as he seems to
have become highly encouraged by his
victory over Al Limerick.
Some spectators of that affair were I'M
kind enough to suggest that Jack learn
some of the points of the game before he
tackles the champion. The obvious impli-
cation is that he doesn't know those points
ow. Still. Munro may possibly prove a
surprise, and then, again, he may not
Sharkey and Munro have signed aTti-
cles, with the understanding that the fight
is to take place anywhere but in Frisco.
Munro wants 1t in the East, and Sharkey
will doubtless prefer 1t there.
Jim Jeffries doesn't seem altogether
popular with the negroes who Will figure
in the cake walk at Madison Square Gar
den Christmas night. Jeffries has been
selected as judge in that contest, and
protest has been raised by some of the |
contestants.
Frank Erne, James J. Corbett and Ter |
ry McGovern have been selected as JEFF
fries's fellow-judges. The negroes are
willing to stand for these three last, but |
they have filed protests to. Jeffries, on |
the ground that he draws the color line |
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