The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-06
Young Peter Jackson Wants to
Fight O'Brien.
Wefterweight Champion Is to
Return Home Soon.
GOOD WORK in ENGLAND
Knocked Out Their Best Middle
and HeavyWeights.
O'Brien Claims to BE Champion
i'm This Glass Also.

| New York, Dec. 6.-Young Peter
Jackson. the middle and heavyweight
champion of England, will arrive home
from London in about two weeks.
Jackson went to England last June and
while he has been over there he has
met their best middle and heavy
weights and succeeded in knocking out
all of them
Young Peter has had ten fights while
on the other side, and none of them has
ever gone over four rounds, and in the
knocking out his opponents in two
rounds
There is one man that Jackson is just
dying to fight, and that is Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien, and while O'Bfien is
pounds heavier than Jackson. he will be
willing to make the match at catch
weights.
Jackson has once knocked O'Brien
out, and feels confident he can do it
again if given the opportunity.
O'Brien also claims the title of mid
die and heavyweight champion of Eng
land, which title Jackson has as much
right to as O'Brien. If O'Brien will
agree to meet Jackson the Eureka Ath-
1etic club of Baltimore will otfer a purse
of $4,000 for the match, and will let
O'Brien name the referee, just so he is
some reputable man.
If O'Brien is really not afraid to meet
jackson again and with accept this Of
fer, all he has to do is to notify the
club and they will forward the articles
for his signature without delay.
Close followers of the boxing game in
all parts of the country wonder how
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien manages to
keep boxing so frequently and still re-
tain his health and stamina. The i'm
preston seems general that our friend,
the clever Quaker lad, is ovefworking
himself and that he will eventually go
stale and lose his vitality. That is an
erroneous notion. for there is not the
slightest fear of O'BTien oVer-eXerting
himself There is not an athlete in
America who does less regular training
than this same Philadelphia Jack.When
he was in Buffalo a year or so ago he
visited a private gymnasium and boxed
a four-round workout with AL Limerick
here. This was just before he engaged
the big Buffalonian to go out on the
road with him as sparring partner. At
that time Jack explained the system of
exercise by which he kept himself con-
stantly in good form.
For these six-round bouts don't go
into regular training work, such as do
ing several miles of road work morn
ings and a couple of hours of heavy
hustling in the gymnasium in the after
moons. 1t is not necessary to do such
killing work for these bouts. / merely
take a brisk walk and a little jog in
the forenoon, and in the afternoon I
punch the bag for four to six rounds,
use the rubber pulley exercise and do
shadow fighting for five minutes. This
amount of work takes off no weight,
but it makes a fellow feel good and
strong.
Immediately after this work I jump
into cold water bath, rub myself Wig
orously from head to foot while in the
water. This takes less than two min
utes, after which I hop out and dry
myself off with coarse towel rms
training 1 do for about three days be-
fore one of my bouts. OF course, If
have what I consider a hard PROPOSE
ton, 1 take longer time to train and do
more work. I am always in shape TO
take on a match at three days notice.
You see I have never abused my consti-
tuition by drink or other forms of dissi-
patton, and this to a great extent is
the reason why so little training is suf-
ficient for me-"
O'Brien is figuring on 20-round CON-
tests with Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid
Mccoy.