The Forrest City times., 1906-04-06


 who could get in quick, strike quicker and get away again before his man had chance to counter.
 For some years that was the ideal school. and then somebody found out that Corbett didn't have any partieu- larly hard punch and that he mostly wore his men down by letting them work themselves out, putting in a good jab here and there to help the work along. l think I can safely say that l was the chap of the new school who made the next change. l took Corbett's measure because was pretty fast with my hands and feet and l had the punch. Every time I hit a man it hurt, and hurt badly. too, and that did the business for awhile. You see, I'd gone to work on the principle that a combination of the two men who stood at the top-Sullivan and Corbett- would do the trick If I could move about as fast as Corbett. or nearly as fast. and could hit like Sullivan. I'd stand fair chance of winning out. I went to work along those lines and they worked out right.
 But there was another change con- ing along and didn't see that. I don't think anyone will call me if I say that l couldn't be expected 10 see 1t, l was working along easy. with the belief that I could trim any appIi- cant that showed up. but thought the giants had all been done with. I
  going to come out of the west. who moved pretty fast and who weighed 60 pounds more than I did. and who had been trained by the foxiest trainer In the business. l didn't think that an elephant-beg pardon. Jim - could move quick, but found it out at Ceney Island and in just II rounds the e,e- phant-pardon again. Jim-had put me away. l say now, just as I said then, that Jeffries was and is an accident. You don't look for many men of his klnd in century. He's not the regu- lar run of men by n whole lot. Tn fact 1 guess he's a sort of a made.to-or6er boy for the particular job he had to do. 1 don't honestly think he's a regular hghter, not the fighting machine at least. Hes the best. however. just now, but if he sticks to the game some fellow is going to get him in time. You see, he's big and stronger than the ordinary and he hits hard. and then he's fast, too, on his feet and in his movements. He carries out my combination all right. and my dope is right at that, but he's too big for tho ordinary man to take a hack at.
 Maybe some day in the future there Will be new style of champion who Will make us of the present day look like piece of debased money but I doubt it. There will be mighty few more Of the Jeffries type, and it's my Idea that the coming champion will be man of about 1S0 pounds. who Will combine extreme speed with 2 hit. ting quality that will count for some. thing, and who will be as shiftv as ;hey make them. The combination as have doped it out, ought to whip anything that walks on two legs har. ring accidents of the Jeffries kind
 claim to know Jim Jeffries about as well as any man can know another and l don't believe there's a man f, the business to-day that can Whin him worked with Jeffries a lot after onr second light in San Francisco and I can modestiy claim 10 have taught him something. too. Youll notice as A gen. eral rule that championship fights are getting shorter, too Corbett wbinnod sullivan in 21 rounds I beat Corbett Tn IA and Jeffries put me away in II the first time and in eight the second time. Of course, if you carried tbis much further. you'd have a man whipped before he got into the ring but what l mean when point that ont IS that the fight of the future is going 10 be between speedy men, who will hght last and hard and who will only go short distance. Something like the racing of today. There used to be horses that could travel ten miles at fast clip, and hold it to the end with saving burst of speed for Q climax. but to-day it's the horse with the fast speed for the short distance that brinos | home the money.
 These things are all bound to reach a certain limit, of course. but I think the combination speak If for a shor, distance fight .s going to be the thing. Not so much endurance. but more speed and grit while the short bout js on. Why. there have been Queensburv ! fights that have run into so rounds hn, l never heard that any of the specta. tors enjoyed them half as much as they did the 9ip-roaring. speedy battle that went along at racing clip for 10 or 12 rounds and ended with a sharu rally all over the ring.
 Just the same, it's quite a long stem from old Fisg down to Jim Jerries- and, say, did you ever think how many black eyes. cut lips and twisted noses were wrapped up in those years?