The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-01


3 II with MIS- ari,i back ard let 20 with oil
4 A.s might. though ] lad plenty Of time
- ato aot around behind HIN bcf ore the
III blow reached tho spot where no hoped
Y "a Il world be. # 4. Il Il IN I. 4 Z
%, l Another pp;nt In MY favor Ii, a fight
8! with Jaff Ia that have power In my lel 7
lS hand tab and hook that Corbett Hast
3S$ may he wrong, but I think hat is p had
IA hit 3Tltz az often as Corett hit him ~
&Etf Carson CITY or MS often as Eorhett hit
ut Coney island. 1t woul nave
81 ,iurt them more. i don't think there
8 Ii any question about my being able to
INIT Jcffries and I nm, certain + Will be
II nble tit damage him. u. q NJ 5S
II Speed is theaMain Thing.
There Is nothing as hard for d big maj,
5to tdght as speed Jeffries In training
now would weigh at least $50 pounds He
" Is no longer d youth and Ills bg weight
r y Isl a hard load to carry around m n fast
Al fight I$flrst thought Of working for,
NJ battleS with jeff some two years ago
35l1 had then beaten several big men of
sfairys ability and had q good iden .
1.-The best wny 10 fight a big scrapper.
Ta 1T IS spced that does It; that, combined
With a5uuicl punch that has enough sting
Isih}it4to h,irt. / will wear Jeffres down,
8i to II moral Bcertniny, and beat him as
& I did Fitz--simply exhaust him.
BSi The first ohtection8to this plan will be,
& Of course, that l will wear myself out
!, springting around the ring lodging JEFF
fries heavy blows because I cannot take
the slightest chance OF one of them land
III ting square. That possibly does not
ei,terSin,o my doping Of the fight. have
more vitality and am stronger now, than
& / ever was. II nm not.quite twenty
I'll eighs tyearsy old and I have never gone In
for the slightest dissipation hat would
hurt my fighting. The resulttSis that
NY wind and legs are IN almost petfec:
condition all the time and i! nave licvYr
e set been In a fight where I was too tired
to stay away when I wanted to. M be-
II lieve that II can jab and run much
Il longer than Jeffries can take the jabs
VI and run after me.
Will Close Jeffries Eyes.
There is another point that Jeffries
"a Will find annoying. Corbett stuck his |
hand into Jeff's face whenever he found
the opportunity and cut UP his whole
Il map to n certain AnXIsnt. III NV clay |
II for the face I devote myself entirely,
y or nearly 80, to y man eyes. ln&eVcry !
long fight that T hava had 1 hay" closed
up at least one Of my onponent,s eyes
and in some cases badly damaged 10th
8of them. Any man who has ever re-
Y ceived q couple of p.lrcnes In the eye
will know its effect on thu sight. lfsycu
y can keep up a constant iabbing on that
IS spot 1T does moro lo hurt n mans e.
II fectiveness than any ether one thing, be-
cause Its spells Ids Judgment Of dis
ID tances and in The c,tse Of u fast boxer
, you have got to sims him 70 1'icrty
ain$order to land a damaging punch. That
y Will he my first object OF attack with
gSJeffries. B.
y, TO sum it all up It seems to me that
ri fny speed, vitality, .ooxing and stiff 3jabb-
rc1,1 = oh
b gainst j effriess punches, anchored as
they are to his great weight and de-
~ cNning vitality. .85 749& II H m
I was asked to write this plan OF
n battle out as there seemed to be a chance
that / might be matched with the ex-
champion. But 1 want to say also
r that am not too quickly ambitious. l
am perfectly willing to fight Corbett or
II ommy Ryan. or both. 1t seems neces-
Bary, in order to get a match with
" Ueffries. i.4 y N Sg Il, KEEL
Ets5! OF ali the fighters that have been
discussed as possible opponents would 8
N prefer to meet Corbett. Hart, in the
minds Of anany fight followers, had
a calm on the championship because
: of his victory over Root at Reno.
883 Well. you see what a little man did
to Hart. n 81 is 5S HI
want to meet corbett, as he the /
III only man now in the game or has n
i chance to get in the game WHO ever held
Sthes champion shop. WlthEa victory over
Il him Is and Fd tzsimmons there would he
mo doubt of my right to challenge j eff
e fries.
s8 m view Of Tommy Burns showing with
81 Hart, I nnl perfectly willing to give him
3 a chance, too: but ! don't think It's
& necessary to bring Burns into any mr.
z gument that concerns Jeffrles
English Fighters Out Of It.
s22 While we are discussing the champion
ship5it has heen suggested that, in view
OF my many fights in England, I say
RI something about the threatened nva-
~ sion OF America by English fighters.
L There Is not a heavyweight or a heavy
II fighter In England that has. a chance
with any one of a half-dozen of our
best that I could name. We can leave
E the British out OF the figuring on the
a worlds championship.
8 Of the smaller men, they seem to
have developed some great little bowers.
4 but as CLASP our bttle boys are far
/ superior, Jabe% White Is easily cock
OF the walk In his class across the
4 water But there arc three or four men
Il here who would probably boat him in
4 along fight Joe Bowler took tho ban.
b tan1-weight little across tho water. but
n from the best accounts, Nell might have
won that fight by q block II he had
" Fought. He got a square deal all right,
81 but no simply did not fight anywhere
n near his form.
&&s In my opinion ENGLAND has hopelcssly
4 cost her boxing prestige. Some day she
& may regain It. hut l doubt It, because
NJ they are too often conservative over
Y There. Defeat after defeat at tho hands
3 OF Americans who fight In the now way
a should have taught them that the old
stand up and knock down tactics have
II no chance against the American school
OF fighting. but they will not learn the
rs lesson. They keep right on at the old
y game that Americans discarded years
ago. ST