The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-30

tiS Ids HldluTtQ Dy lDdl llIle, anu
though il is quite true he can go into
fight and come out ahead, he'll prob
ably never do as good work as he has
done. There is only one safe rule for
man to follow, and that is to watch
himself carefully. When he sees signs
| that he is not up to his everyday mark
he wants to get out.
Some men can tell one way and
some another, but there is no doubt
that however much a man may bluff he
don't need to be told when his best
days in the ring are done. No, indeed
Il am %, and l should not be at all
surprised If 1 dropped out after 80.
have been fighting now for twelve
years; that is long enough. 1 believe
there is some talk with the boys about
a coming contest with Marvin Hart
of Louisville. but / don't know whether
ii will amount to anything; If il does
all right; if not''-he shrugs his shoul
ders-'well. I've had about enough.
I'm not anxious to continue"
You say you think a man should
stop fighting at 80. Then do you be-
lieve in DR.. Osler's theory that a man
is useless after 40?"
Il think" said Mr.. Jeffries. that
Osler is an old loon; the mans crazy.
that's all. Why, the most brainy men
in the country are over 40, and the
best brain work men ever do is after
.
a speech like that, though, proves
pretty well that he amt any good
himself; don't he? That's my way OF
thinking. When you talk about the
ring, that's a different thing from
mental work. Fighting is a matter of
you begin TO go down hill there. why,
you can do nothing, because that is
natural.
And another thing; it is much bet
ter for man TO leave when he is the
champion than to wait until he's
thrown out. There's a good deal in
knowing when to stop off,
The champion speaks of his recent
trip through the south, and Mrs. JEFF
ries announces that she has Travelled
everywhere with him.
He isn't able TO take care of him.
SELF" she says. Il have TO look out for
him. Besides, 1 don't think it's
good idea to leave husband too much
10 himself; he gets lonesome"
There is just this about the south"
says the party of the second part I'm his
turn. You get a come off all right;
they're glad to see you, and all that,
but they don't care such an awful lot
about fighting. They're really not up
to date. They're all right with their
hospitality, but, nine chances to one,
when you see a southern man you see
-
Give him a gun and he's the happy kid;
or let him see somebody else fight with
gun and he's happier still. But just
prizefighting-why he amt walked up
to its beauties yet.
Now take the west; that's different.
A western man loves every kind of
scrap, big and little, guns or fists, but
he prefers fists. You see he's got his
fists with him all the time, but he may
have forgot his gun or lent 1t to an
other feller. The best place in the
whole world is San Francisco. The only
trouble there is that they're getting
awful particular. They've had all the
fighting they could stand for twenty
years, and they are not satisfied with
anything but the best. Even if they
get the best men they don't want 10 be
put off with any little fights or any
onesded affairs. That makes il diff
cult to get a scrap there.
New Workers are just crazy over it
and they know a lot about IL. too; not
nearly as much as they do in San
Francisco, but they make it up in en-
thusiasm.
Some time the New York men will
get the laws that prohibit fighting re-
pealed. It's bound to come. l wouldn't
be surprised If it came in year or
two. They made the laws to protect
the people from lot of promoters that
got up some fake fights, but there is no
reason why If a man loves that sort of
thing he shouldn't be allowed to see it;
it's free country.
Il hope to settle in the west some
where; it's the only place to live. A
man can stretch out his arms and draw
good, long breath there. The east is
too crowded and too noisy and nobody
cares for anything else here, but what
they can make. like every inch of the
west; / love the plains and the coast.
and / think it's the finest climate in the
world
1t has been rumored that the cham
plon has made fortune, enough to
place him in the money class and point
suspicion at him as a magnate of the
prize ring trust He laughs silently at
the suggestion.
Il amt come out of the ring with
SAC, 100000 yet. but I've got enough to
buy bread and butter, and little sugar
on special occasions. l amt worrying
about that little bit. any more than
I'm worrying about the men I've got
to fight Worrying amt in my line"
The color line is touched on, with
delicate shading.
Yes. certainly draw the color line
None of ii for me-"
The lower jaw sets itself grimly and
the interviewer, catching a profile view
of 1t, sidesteps hastily TO the question
of medals. She had expected to see a
wall covered with blue ribbons and
copper, silver and gold disks, suitably
inscribed with notices and sculptured
resemblances of the champion.
Il amt working for medals" says
Mr.. Jeffries. That's all right for am
ateurs, but medals never bought any
bread and butter yet If a man wants
a round thing with So of gold or sill
yer coated over it and a verse, he's
welcome to it. What 1 want is the
money. Give me the dollars and I'll
never take a mans medal away from
him"
Then the conversation resolves itself
into travelogues, bringing up sharp
with another reference to Mr.. Jeffries'
ever present trouble which has cast
over the natural lightheartedness OF
the champion deep and almost tragic
gloom.
There l go, hoarsing up again and
ali the lines to speak again tonight.
don't believe there ever was a star who
as so anxious to get off the boards as
/ am. But I'm going to stick ii out.
said would, and l will"
He helps the artist and interviewer
into their Jackets with a Chesterfield
ian courtesy, and when he shakes
hands he does it as gently as il he was
stIolIing a sick kitten.
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