The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-23

Jim Jeffries is as he Is today, believe
with all my heart that I could trim
him. He is a freak of nature. His
best weight is 21O pounds and this is
remarkable when you take into CON
sideration the fact that my minimum
fighting weight was 185 pounds. He
has a short body enormous shoulders
and long legs Jeffries doesn't look
so big when he is sitting beside you,
but he is there with the physical goods,
however. When Billy Delaney brought
him east for the first time and he
fought Steve O'Donnell and Bob Arm
strong the public gave Delaney the
laugh. He came back again, however,
and he put Fitz on his withers at
Coney Island. There is another time
Fitz thought he had a hunch and got
fooled. 1 saw Jeff fight Sharkey at
Coney He couldn't put the sailor
down, although he gave him an awful
beating in the last five or six rounds
The man who can lick jeff has not
yet developed. Without any disparage-
ment to the abilities of either Rubin
or Sharkey, I am sure I could have
licked either one Of them in a round
or two.
When Fitz fought Jack O'Brien he
had lost his tools, and without them
a good workman is helpless. He was
a great man in his day, was this same
Fitzsimmons but there is no discount
ing the ability of O'Brien- He is a
shifty lad and he saves his COIN All
this gush, however, about him being
a millionaire pugilist won't down He
fought several fights over in England,
and if you fought all the pugs in Eng
land you could not get together $780,
600, as the highest purse ever hung up
at the National club is $1,000. Let's
talk about something else. Money, my
boy, is a good companion to have I
have made and spent lots of it. From
now on, however, your Uncle John is
going to look out for No. 1. When I
get q wad again it is to be invested
in the right way, and II COG spares
me for years to come won't have to
worry about that proverbial wolf at
the door Do you know the world Is
getting wiser and the people in it are
getting weaker? It's true as the Cos
pei. There is more degeneracy today
than there was q decade ago. Look
at the doings in high society. If
things that they pull off were put
through by the middle class there
would be shipment to the bughOuse-
Harry Lehr. for instance. He is a
nice young fellow, and he can lead a
cotillon with exquisite grace. He was
wine agent and he danced his way
into the good graces of the New York
1 bon ton. He married in the 40. Now,
what does that guy~do but give mon
KEY party in Newport. Has a monk
attlred IN a dress suit sitting at the
banquet table and eating with the rest
of the folks A fellow like that ought
to be led around the block two or three
times and then chased. but what we're
the feelings of the monkey.
Here is John D. Rockefeller He
is over there in France now living in
deadly fear that some nnustached
waiter will drop q bomb into his cof-
fee, instead Of sugar. I'll show you
the difference between him and Mr
F'lagler, another Standard Oil magnate.
When the latter's daughter was lying
at the point of death young doctor
was in constant attendance upon her.
He worked without sleep and he even
tually pulled her through. F1agler
tdolized her, and to show his appre-
citation of the physicians efforts he
presented him with s1,0O0.000 in stan
dard Oil securities. Now, there's John
d. He bought a pair of $1.50 shoes.
A nail in the sole of one Of them stuck
in his. foot and he got blood poisoning.
Another young doctor pulled him
thrugh and washed his feet ten times
day. What does John D. do? He
gives Chicago university $40, 900 600,
and when the doctor put IN his bill for
$4,000 he yeIped ike q wolf caught
IN bear trap"