The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-16
The Big Battle Is Now But Nine
Days OFF.
Jeffrfes and Munroe Getting Fit
for the Ring.
CHAMPION is READY.
Billy Delaney Says He Can Go
Amy Time.
Joe Cans and Jimmy Gardner
Are Matched.

| San Francisco, Aug. 16.-With only
nine days of work remaining Jim JEFF
fries knee is behaving handsomely. 1t
has carried him through days and
nights of deer stalking without emit
ting a creak, and has borne its share
of the boilermakers bulk uncomplain-
ingly during many boisterous seances
with the 400 pound sandbag.
| The housemaid's hinge has been tried
in the fire and proved, and if the cham
pion is doomed to break down again
during the present campaign it will be
at some other point of his anatomy.
Further mishaps are not looked for,
however. So far as the work of pre-
paration is concerned Jeffries feels that
he has rounded the stretch bend and is
heading for the wire. All those who
have had to do with getting the big
fellow ready for his seventh champion
ship battle are confident he will mount
the steps of the fighting platform in
good shape on the night of August &c.
In Billy Delaney's opinion JeffrleS has
been fit to go to the scratch for several
days
The men who are handling Jack Mum
roe are correspondingly optimistic They
think out at the beach that the post
pOnement was a good thing for Mum
roe after ALL He put on very little
weight while resting, and since he re-
sumed work he has boxed daily with
heavyweights of every known variety
He has stacked up against fat fell
lows and thin fellows, short men and
tall men. He has been against light
ming fast jabbers and heavy handed
bruiseTs. He figures that he has been
struck at from every point of the COM
pass, and that he has sampled every
assault known to the boxing game.
He has been placid and persevering
through it all, and has satisfied himself
that none of his temporary sparring
mates can chuck him under the chin
and escape without rasping right
hand punch in the ribs. 1t is on these
Miner places reliance. He has had OPP
pCNtunity to improve his knowledge OF
delivering them while setting to with
all manner of opponents, and he be-
Heves the experience will avail him
when he stands toe to toe with the
mighty JeffrieS.
Matchmaker Greggains, of the San
Francisco Athletic club. announces that
Cans and Jimmy Gardner. There is a
match with class to it-one which, If
properly handled and husbanded, would
awaken lashinS of interest.
The weight named is 1876 pounds at
o'clock. This places the participants
well outside the pale of the lightweight
division, but as matches are arranged
nowadays it makes very little differ
white-skinned boy has at last been
found who is willing to meet the dusky
terror Cans in fair stand-up battle
on Cans own terms.
A zest is added to the situation by
the fact that sporting men generally
believe Gardner has at least an even
chance of winning. To be in a posi-
ton to say. I'm the fighter who de-
feated Joe Cans viii be about all the
distinction Gardner will require and if
he succeeds in humbling the hitherto
invincible negro, the fact that he fought
several pounds above the scale will not
attract from the brillancy of the
achievement.
It isn't easy to think up a fight that |
promises better than the Herrera-Nel- |
SON affair. Nelson has shown himself |
to be a lad who can stand all kinds of
wear and tear without f1inching or |
slowing up, while the wizardry of the |
Herrera walIop is potent enough to |
keep interest in a bout alive from the |
starting bell to the decision.
AS a durable, aggressive fighter, with