Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10
THREE WISE men
MADE jim JEFFR|ES
Edgren's Interesting Chapter
on ProWess of Former
Champion.

Harry Tuthill, physical director of the
National Athletic Club. trainer of the
champion Detroit Tigers and long famous
as a handler Of champion fighters. sup.
plies highly interesting chapter to the
present day gossip regarding Jim Jeffries
says Bob Edgren in the New Yort
Journal. Il hope Jeff stays retired" says
Tuthill, because they never get good
after a long lay-off." Which means that
Tuthill would probably not advise JEFF
fries to tackle Jack Johnson
Jim Jeffries could beat Tommy Burns
without training any more than getting a
hair cut says Tuthil. HE could bea,
John L. Sullivan the best day John ever
knew. He is the greatest prizefightel
that ever lived. Picture man weighing
20 pounds, perfectly proportioned, who
can do the 1OO-yards dash in ten and one
half seconds, who has never been knocked
off his feet, who can outlook Jim Corbett
supposed to be the fastest heavyweight
the ring has known. and you have Jim
Jeffries.''
Tuthill has for years followed the fight
same He trained Mysterious Billy
Smith, Tommy Ryan, Young Corbett Nc
Govern and hundred or more other stars
of the ring. He has seen the greatest of
business well.
There will nexer be another Jefrrles
unless circumstances so shape themselves
that conditions can be repeated. -effries
was the outcome of a peculiar condition
In the fighting game.
Slow at First.
THE study of the fighter is a fascinat-
ing one. Just take this giant as a sample.
His people were lowly, perhaps, but re-
fined. His father was minister. JET
fries when he started out showed none
of this innate brain power. 1t was unde-
veloped. He had the remarkable physique
and that was all. He begaH fighting and
at the time when he started out there
was remarkable bunch of heavies doing
business. There were Fitzsimmons and
Corbett, and Sharkey, and Rubin. and
Mccoy, and Ryan and many, many others.
Any one of them could have whipped the
best in the ring today.
Under these conditions Jeffries was
taken in hand by the three wisest men in
the fighting game-Deaney. Brady and
Tommy Ryan. Delaney worked with him
TO keep him in healthy. condition. Brady
taught MIN to save his money and
showed him how to live thereby awaken
ing his dormant mentality And to finish
of his, used to take him into the gym
nasium day after day and deliberately
cut him to ribbons. The work of De-
laney retained for him his wonderful
strength. the work OF Brady brought out
his intelligence and made him reason
against the attacks of Ryan. The work
of Ryan toughened him and brought out
his wonderful speed.
Corbett Too Refined.
THE brainless fighter is sad dub. Yet
the man who by education developed his
brain too much is not the ideal fighter
Take Jim Corbett. for instance. He is
brainy man. He, therefore, was too high
strung to be a fighter like Jeffries or Fitz-
simmons. He had had too much of the
animal educated out Of him. He rea-
soned that he could keep from being pun
ished. Jim Corbett could use terrific
punch If he wanted to, but he figured
that hitting and getting away was much
better for him. He was too refined.
Take Joe Grim as the other extremeJ He
was of such low grade Of mentality that
he had no reasoning power A blow on
the jaw that gave pain brought no re-
Spouse from the brain. He just dimly
figured that he had been hit and his
only desire was TO hit the man who did it,
senses are dulled.
'Jeffries was the happy medium. He
was man of native intelligence, but his
early environment had not permitted him
to develop, for he left home and roughed
it most of his life.
After reaching manhood with all his
wonderful animal strength he was taken
in hand by the wizards of the game /
have mentioned. BY their work that in
nate brain power began to work. but
only In the one channel that of fighting.
Once aroused he startled the world by
the rapidity with which he learned. Slow
ly but surely he became too cunning and
swift for Ryan to trouble him. The
blows of the old fox We're blocked, or
when they did land the toughened frame
gave no response. 1t was the evolution
of the greatest Of all fighting machines.
He went the route learning from all of
them.
Sharkey Was Game.
"When he first fought Tom Sharkey. as
tough and game a man as ever stepped
into ring, 1t was almost a standoff. But
he developed rapidly after that The sec
ond time he fought Sharkey he should
have been in the hospital instead of in