The San Francisco call., 1904-06-08
JEFFRIES WILL DEFEND HIS TITLE
WHEN THE CALL TO ARMS SOUNDS
Wife of Champion Is an In
terested Spectator During
His Gymnasium Work.
By +. +. MuIhOlland.

HARDIN SPRINGS, June I'm ad-
dition 70 the usual coterie of guests
here at the springs, Champion Jim
Jehries' petite wife. becomingly at
tired in white lawn and silks, and Mrs.
Delaney. wife of the big fellows man
ager. Billy Delaney, were among the
spectators at the gym" this morning.
No boxing was INDUCED in, but Jim
worked like a Trojan on the different
muscle and sinew developing appli-
ances.
After working furiously for more
than an hour and a half he gargled
MS throat and sat down on the rowing
machine for a brief breathing spell.
His weight is still a matter Of
conjecture, and while his girth meas
urement has been reduced several
inches and his limbs look clean cut
and symmetrical, he must tip the scales
in the neighborhood Of 225 pounds
Once an inveterate cigarette fiend.
the champion says he has not rolled
p brown paper since the first day Of
the year. In referring to the days
~ hen b0iler-malzing was his vocation,
JEFF asserts he then smoked 100
cigarettes a day, at a conservative es-
innate.
Why" said he, when l6 1 weighed
2G2, and ] smoked so necessarily that
my lungs felt as if they were all
ablaze. ONLY for that I'd been an aw-
1ul strong man"
He can carry an upright piano on
his head and lick six ordinary men.
and what a great help to his family
ne would be If he possessed any addi-
tional strength,
Almost any athlete can do better
when performing before company, and
with a fashionable attendance to wit
ness a demonstration Of his prowess
and endurance at training quarters
this forenoon the champion was right
on his mettle.
First came the wrist machine and
pulley weights. which serve to warm
him I'D as preliminary gallop does a
horse previous 10 the real test in the
race. Then followed the battle with
the great Jumbo sand bag. With the
perspiratiOn streaming from every pore
in his giant body. JEFF showed and
hugged and wrestled with the ponder
Gus weight for twenty minutes. Pre-
vious TO this he had thrown a bunch of
rights and lefts at the leather punch
ing bag. They were not love taps,
either. for each blow was delved with
force enough behind il TO fell bullock.
Picking I'D his rope JEFF next skipped
1923 times. He extracts many beneficial
results from this form of exercise, for
the entire weight of his body is always
resting on the ball Of one foot Some
fifty-yard sprinting followed, then a
plunge and a rub down and jeff was
ready for luncheon. The champion
said he would work again in the gym
nasium before dinner time, but altered
his plans and went for a siX-mile jog
on the road instead. In the evening he
participated in a ball game and before
retiring for good tossed the medicine
bail for fifteen minutes with his spar
ring partners. Joe Kennedy and Jack
Jeffries.
Among the visitors here is VIII Ken
nedy. a well known New York politi-
clan and an enthusiastic admirer Of
Jeffries He viii have a rlngside seat
az the battle on the 18th inst
If victorious over Jack Munroe the
champion has received a splendid offer
10 appear at St. Louis Immediately
after the scrap. Forty thousand for a
forty weeks enga cement is rumored,
but JEFF says it is hardly as much as
that
During the progress Of the ball game
JEFF became nettled over some rough
play on the part Of Kennedy and his
brother, Jack Jeffries. He promised
each good time tomorrow with the
gloves for IT, Jack replied. We'll. we
viii he there 1t remains TO be seen
Whethe- or not their feet viii require
warming when the time comes.