The San Francisco call., 1905-08-06
JO1S
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actor not a fighter, and a bad-actor at
that. It's the bad acting that didn't pay.
JEFF Happened at n Time When There
Were Only second-Raters.
I am not anxious to pluck any medals
from JEFF. Wear them early and often,
say 1. OF course 1 am sore that he put
me aside and made sure thing OF 1t by
hopping out of the game. But no man
who ever saw me fight will say he was
ever in my class. 1 always put my body
where an opponent could reach it, If he
got that far, and 1, never invented any
serpentine dances and couchee houchie
crouches, TO make 1t so the other fellow
couldn't get a run for the money. Every
man ever fought found me erect in
front Of him, man fashion, and I've met
men who could make monkey of JEFF
the best day he ever saw. Jake Kilrain,
Charley Mitchell and dozen others 1
. could name were better boxers and bet
ter fighters than Jeffries.
1t happened we'll for jeff that he came
at a time when there were only selling
platers claiming to be able to stand the
gaf in the heavyweight class. Fitz. who
didn't belong in the heavyweight division,
had done Up everybody there was, which
shows how shy the country was of the
real thing In the fighting line. Those who
remember the times when there was
fighting that was fighting will not go
daffy over the record Of jeff. from the
time he fought with a coon to the time
he refused to meet white man, able and
willing. It's pretty tough, that country
. as big and sporty as ours can't at this
stage produces a champion with nipp
enough to give all white claimants a
chance at him, That is where think
champion should be at, and I proved 1t
for twelve wears to the world, and as
JEFF takes his place as a has been he is
welcome TO my opinion OF his perform
ances.
Your hands are too big. you'll never
make a boxer, was one of the bits of
encouragement passed to me when 1 was
beginning to attract notice puncher.
That was the popular notion at that time,
because Sayers, Heenan, Yankee Sulli-
van and some other good men who had
made their tally and passed up had
small hands. 1t sounds strange now, but
everybody then had the idea that to be
a champion a boxer must have hands
small in proportion to his frame. l put
an end to that notion when knocked it
TO pieces with my extra large fms.
Speaking OF Yankee Sullivan calls to
mind his great willingness to do battle.
q willingness that others of the same
name have handed down. When he
fought John Morrissey at Boston Corners.
they had been at it for 81 rounds, lasting
55 minutes, when a row started among
the seconds of the two men outside the
ring Yankee was feeling frisky (al-
though Morrissey was 20 years younger
and the battle had been a warm one),
and letting Morrissey alone for a. while
he Jumped over the ropes into the other
fight and walloped the seconds. Before
he could climb back Yankee was de-
clared the loser, although he had Nor
rissey almost out. That was three years
before the death of Yankee, who was out
Is when he passed in.
They were the real thing" fighters In
those DAYS, and when you think of what
+hev did and compare IT with the twelve
round championship battles of to-day,
after months Of advertising and talk, is
il any wonder that "cullud pussons
have the gall to reach out for white
mems belts?
He Promises to Put an End to Fight
Swindles.
I'm going to make good the threat 1
made to help put end to the swindling
of the public by fake fights by getting
into the promotion game myself. The
public knows that I never played any
tricks on them, and when 1 boost Jim
Mccormick over the ropes at Colma,
California. August II, and sick him on to
Gustavus Rubin, you can gamble on
square soiree. Billy Madden will be look
ing out for Gus, and Billy is as square
as you find them. To make the go above
suspicion, the purse will go rs per cent to
the winner and 25 per cent to the loser.
Ard it will be practically a finish fight,
so you can count on something like the
real stuff from the time the bell tinkles.
This match will be one of the most i'm
portant of the year for several becauses.
1t will be On the level, it will be chock
full of real fighting between two men
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