The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-28
The Ring Champion Has Some
Decided Views.
Declares GridirOn Game More
Brutal Than Fighting.
NO POSSIBLE MISTAKE.
Doesn't Want ANY Of the College
Contest in 'sHis'n.'
A $1,000 a Minute Wouldn't
Tempt Him to Play.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 2S.-James J.
Jenries, retired heavyweight champion
Of the world, and man who has re-
Ceived many hard blows. says football
is a brutal game and that the sum Of
$1,000 a minute would not induce him
10 enter a game.
"Can a gentleman play footbaIl2" the
former champion was asked.
Gentlemen can play any game he
replied, but I don't see how any gen
tleman can feel at home in a game of
football as it is PLAYED today. Foot
ball is FAR more brutal than prize fight
ine.
Every time the ball is put in play
eleven men are lined up to fight eleven
men, It's all well to say the side with
the ball is trying to rush It across the
line by using speed and skill, and that
the enemy is trying to prevent this by
using speed and skill, but. as a matter
OF fact. the two teams slug each other
from start to finish, and if they didn' t
slug good people wouldn't 90 to look at
than.
Every healthy man or woman likes
TO see a fight, and football is the hard
est kind of fighting 1 ever have looked
at. You may call it a strenuous sport,
or any other fancy name you like. but
1t is just a big. red-hot fight. all the
same.
Football Unrestrained Fighting.
''Iust look at the difference between
football and prize fighting-it's all in
favor Of prize fighting. In the ring you
can hit man only with your fists and
only above the belt If you strike low,
or if you butt with the head, or use
your elbow or shoulder to strike your
man, the referee calls foul on you
and you lose the battle. In football
you are supposed never to hit a man
with your fist, but you can block him
with the shoulder, or give him the ell
bow, or kick him. or jump on him when
ne IS down.
i know football people will deny this
and say these things happen only by
accident Let them call it accident il
they Ike. but it is a pretty fierce game
where this kind OF accident happens
every time two teams clash. If q fight
err tried to bring off that kind of an ac-
cident in the ring he'd be disqualified
and hoOted out of the place.
Here's a funny thing. A fight crowd
which some people like to describe as g
bunch Of rufhans, won't stand for the
rough work that fine society people ap-
plaud and cheer on the gridiron for al
they're worth.
TN the ring the referee is watching
both the fighters all the time. If either
enc of them commits a foul he is seer
and disqualified right away. On the
football field there are twenty tive
uEnLerSr ana all Lle referees IN tut
world couldn't keep track Of the blows
hit in the scrimmages-
''Not for 81 900 a Minute"
If every player in the game were t.
obey the rules all the time and nevel
commit a foul. football would stin b.
sen times more dangerous than fighting
ing the ring. As they play the gam
nowadays. wouldn't 60 into 1t for 81
O00 a minute"
In reply to Jeffries' criticism OF tn,
game, Texas Charwate, Yale 'OS, de
Gia~es the attacks On foofhau en,anaf
rom dyspeptic critics who. during thei
youth, developed their minds at the ex
pense Of their bodies. He says a team
made up Of prize fighters would hav
absolutely no show against an all
American college team.
Britt Careless With Purse.
Cincinnati. Nov. 2s.-'Talk about get
ting a scare said Britt the other day