The San Francisco call., 1904-06-01
IEFFRIES DONS
THE BIG. -MITTS
Does Some Fast Boxing and
Temporarily Puts Brother
Jack Out of Commission
VERY HEAVY HITTING
Champion Settles Down to
Hard Work and Will Take
No Chances. With MunrOe

HARBIN SPRINGS. May s1.-The
Bfiddletown baseball team failed 10
show, so Champion Jim Jeffries'
picked nine missed an opportunity TO
distinguish themselves Mobday. The
flag at the camp was half-masted, but
otherwise Decoration day was marked
by nothing unusual. unless it was that
The big fellow and his sparring part
ners donned the gloves for the hrst
time since coming here.
There was a time when the cham
pion's right Was Of about as much use
10 him as an automobile would be TO
a man serving a life sentence at san
Quentin. That was some years ago.
when he came up from Los Angeles
q gCeenhorn at the game and met a
young man named Dan Long at Me-
chanics' Pavilion one pleasant sum
mer's night Long had derived much
pleasure and also ensnared not few
dollars reducing the pugihstic asplra-
rious Of itinerant boxers that happened
TO- hang UP their hats in san Jose. His
friends knew they had a good thing
and kept him chained up to unloosen
on the Frisco sports. AS before men
tiohed he was introduced TO just plain
Jim Jeffiies then, and is now probably
a peaceful citizen IN some interior
town He lasted a minute or two.
SHOWS GREAT IMPROVEMENT.
But II Jef had only a left hand then
and was pronounced too big and cum
. bersome, age and tour Of many lands
q has made. quite q cultured piece of an
atOmy out of his right wing. From the
syay he. taftOoed Jack 8effries and Ken
nedy at the gymnasium this morning.
theatSical season has added TO its
efficiency and. Jack AunrOe is apt TO
note the Improvement over Butte form.
JEFF appeared to be feeling in an
. especially buoyant frame Of mind this
morning. =. As a pipe opener he skipped
The. rope, worked the pulley weights,
. INDUCED in shadow boxing and lam
haSted. the bag until II sounded like the
Japanese bOmbardment of Port Arthur.
Bgt IL takes boxing. after all, for a real
lost Of the breathing apparatus. The
champion Eext boxed three rounds and
rugged and wrestled one round with
each. of his sparring mates, or eight
rounds in all He was impartial, deal
ing out his favOTs TO. each alike. Jack
Jenries stopped one punch in the star
chamber when rushed into a corner by
o his herculean brother that nearly
drove him through a window and tenn
porarily pat him out Of commission.
Joe. kennedy encountered q cluster
which made him look as pleasant as a
player lay down four aces with four
mines in a little game Of draw after
breakfast this morning. And the cards
were not cealt from a gum boot either.
FAST WORK TELLS ON HIM.
This fast work was not without its
effect on the champion, too. While he
might rot have exunguished a candle
with the putting from his gymnasium
eNeruOns on Sunday. he could have
blown out an arc light to-day This
set him TO thinking, for he was down
skipping the rope, using the pulleys
and punching the bag again this after
moon. Donning sweater, trousers and
shoes, he next INDUCED in fifty-yard
sprints on the fat before the hotel A
bali game followed, and after dinner
the medicine ball was rolled out and
tossed around.
II now looks as II Sefries had be-
come awakened TO the fact that in
meeting the Butte miner he may strike
some high-grade ore. and will take no
chances. A huge sand bag will be
added 10 the training paraphernalia
tomorrow, and hard work is ahead
from now on.
Manager Billy Delaney will journey
down 10 the city to meet James w
Cofffoth. the Yosemite Club impresario,
when final arrangements for the
big match VIII be consummated.
Joe kennedy is temporarily incapacI-
tated from a badly swollen left hand.
and viii probably not he able to put
cn the gloves for some days. Sam
Berger, the Olympic crack, is coming
here and may spar with the boiler
maker F. z. .MULHOLLAND.