Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-22
SAN FRANCISCO DELIVERS BAD
TROUNCING TO HOGAN'S BRAVES

presence of Bernard in the batting
line and out in center will be of great
moral benefit to the team. The eX-
Angel will add ginger to the Villagers,
which Hap knows is the missing guam
tity among his coasters. Bernard VIII
play with Vernon on Fridays, Satur-
days and Sundays until June l, and
then will go on regularly until the
close of the season. 1t is probably his
last year in professional ball.
This comment, from the pen of an
eastern critic, reminiscent of Jim JEFF
fries training habits in former days,
is timely in view of his decision to go
into hard training for the coming bat
tie with Johnson:
81 see where Jim Jeffries says he is a
great worker while training. That may
be true, but he always seemed to me to
be lazy, as if training was hardship
for him. He lacked the dash and spirit
that willing workers show and always
went at the task in a half-hearted
way. l used to think he was one of
the slowest bag punchers I ever saw,
and when he started out on the road
he was generally in poor humor, plod-
ding along like a man going on a dis
agreeable errand. He seldom broke
into a smart run or showed any en-
thusiasm in his work.
Jeff said recently that he made 1t a
practice of getting up at in the morn
ing when training for a mill. l often
found him in bed at. 10, for Jim as a
great sleeper and loves to stay in bed
in the morning. He's one of those fell
lows who usually get up with a
crouch, and for the first half hour he's
on his feet he isn't a pleasant person
to meet After cold bath and rub
down Jeff thaws out and after good
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or play a joke. The boilermaker does
his road work shortly after breakfast
and comes back as hungry as bear
and with a terrible thirst.
But he knows that drink of any
kind will put on flesh, so he gargles
his throat and swallows as little fluid
as possible. An hour after luncheon
he may bang the bag and exercise with
the medicine ball half an hour. Then
he takes another rest before sparring
a few rounds, when his days work is
practically at an end. In the evening
Jeff eats a big dinner, after which he
is in fine humor and spends a few
hours chatting with his cronies, hunt
ing and dogs being his favorite topics.
But the big fellow seldom discusses
the fight for which he is in training.
He doesn't care to keep it in his mind
all the time.
Its true that Jeff has never en-
tered the ring out of condition. He's
too careful to take a chance. Why,
even when he agreed to face such a
second-rater as Jack Munroe he train
ed faithfully and was in fine form for
that one-sided affair. The boilermaker
has the big bump of caution, and you
can bet all your coin that he will not
face Jack Johnson unless he can go
the route necessary to win back the
championship.
81 know that Jeff breads the hard
work he'll have to do to get right for
the big coon, for he detests training
and would rather fight half a dozen
battles than go through a course of
sprouts to get At. Jeff realizes, too,
that the task will be tougher than
ever now that he's been out of the
game four years and has of course
grown that much older. Jeff wants
plenty of time so that he can work
himself into form, but nobody can hur-
ry him, for he's one of the slow but
sure kind of fellows"