The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01
Jeffries Discusses the Plans of
Jim Corbett.
Thinks His Opponent Will Not
Try TO Dodge.
WILL RUSH BATTLE.
FitZSimmOns Has Fun With a
Policeman.
Stoves Him in the Bath Tank
as a Joke.

San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 1.-Corbett
was discussed thoroughly. his points of
strength admitted and his weaknesses
pointed out at Jeffries' training quar-
tiers last evening" Present were a num-
Der of sporting men grouped about the
champion and Billy Delaney. 1t was
just after Jeff's morning work. ten
rounds of sparring with Joe Kennedy
and Jack Jeffries, IN which he tired out
both, tackling them in alternate rounds
1000 jumps with rope, ten minutes of
phantom boxing and another ten min
utes with weights.
Jeff listened carefully to the descrip-
ton of the big punching dummy with
which Corbett practices He said: 1T
may give him heft, but it can't give him
speed, and when he gets after me he'll
need plenty of speed" Jeffries was in
a laxative mood, which is not usual
with him, for he seldom has his say
about fighting.
Pausing a moment. he said: Now,
I'll tell what 1 think Corbett is going to
do. He has been talking about running
away for twenty rounds. He's told sew
eral people that and they've told me,
but 1 don't believe it, l think he will
rush in and try to knock me out in four,
five or six rounds. Everything proves
that; his long abdominal training, to
build up his defenses: his constant SPAR
ring and his work with the big bag.
Besides, it is his only chance. He
can't keep away from me for twenty
rounds, even If I'll let him, which 1
wouldn't, as the crowd wouldn't stand
for it. He knows it and will find me
ready" Jeff's judgment on COrbett's
condition was that he was overturned.
A prominent sporting writer says:
4 have just spent the day with Jeffries
here at Hardin Springs, and every time
my eyes have rested upon him I have
been more impressed with his enormous
size and strength. He and Corbett are
just of the same height, yet Jeffries is
so broad and huge that at a distance
he looks short and stumpy. Beside him
Corbett is like willow wand beside a
sturdy oak. JeffrieS has a habit, when
his work is done, of sitting out in front
of his cottage on a camp stool. He sits
for an hour at a time, never stirring.
never moving an eye, like some great
bear taking his winters sleep. During
this time he is drawing in energy, as a
sponge sops up water. He has not the
slightest particle of nervousness in his
makeup. While Corbett is rushing from
baseball to shuffleboard, keeping on the
move every second of the time, Jeffries
is doing his work loafing and sleeping
The champion is in grand condition and
has no objection to saying so.
" I am bigger through the chest and
shoulders than I ever have been before,
he said to me last night. I don't have
to do much work. for 1 am in fine shape
now, ready to fight tomorrow, il I could.
I strip well over 220 pounds, and I feel
so we'll and strong that I want to run
every time I go up the mountain.
Jeffries is full of the joy of life. He
and Fitzsimmons are practically the life
of the camp. Yesterday a huge police
man stroled out to the plunge while
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons were there
The festive guardian Of the law had
been playing a joke on Jeffries by SER
enading him with comic songs in the
small hours before the dawn.
When he apparel Jeffries was seized
by an inspiration. He leaned over the
edge of the tank and remarked:
Il don't see the goldfish this year."
There never were any goldfish re-
piled the policeman
"Oh, yes said Jeffries. Somebody
turned several in here last season.
used to see them swimming around"
Here Jeffries leaned further over the