The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

The washington Post digs up the
 following: %hss ssss sss s pss, ,ans S, sha s,n.
 experts insist that between the ages of
 25 and ss the best fighters are In
 their prime. an assertion that appears s9eSs Sossfs o hs England a snd Australia. Jeffries, probably the great est pugflist the world has ever seen. was 24 when he won the heavyweight was was IS at the time he Knocked corbett out h ten rounds at Frisco. and was considered then to be at bis best. That
 was Jeffs last real milf although he
 Is said to have handed his title over
 to Marvin Hart at Reno, New, he was 30 years old and is now SA compar- atively young man. should Jeffries
 son within the next year, therefore. he
 could not give old age as an excuse for
 his downfall. for other fighters when
 much older than Jeffries is now. won
 ~ VI. z. .'Champioa . st ao. M
 | Before Fifzsfmmons was 20 years old | he was boxing for the fun Of the
 thing. and when he became of age he
 Fitz Knocked out Jack Dempsey and won the mfddle-wefght championship of the world he was just 30 years old. Five
 years later he knocked cerbett out s,t at I l heavyweight champion. Robert beat George Gardner. for the light heavy weight title when he was 4l years old,
 two rounds by Johnson in PhiisSeIphja.
 The year that he won the champion
 ship from Paddy Ryan, John |. Sullivan
 4 fake KrSn E Hs snS Tas sSs n s ECorbett stopped him in twenty-one
 rounds in New Orleans, In September | 1892. That makes Sullivan just 50
 hearty. in spite of riotous living foi 4 Jack Johnson. the new heavyweigh,
 champion with ysff in retirsmentl. ],
 and cannot show npuch. improvement: As, he is fond of high. living. and wll have plenty of money to blow in, hs
 may not be able to stand the pace S a,s z or so. Peter Maher, an old man now II point of physique. though he fs only S' years old, and still in the ring, bea Paddy slavin and Joe Gsoynskki knocl1 whel 2 Steve O'Donnell out in punch. and wa 3s when he treated Joe Butler to th "slumber waflop." Tom Sharkey began his ring caree early. but 1t was not until he was 2 ] years ola that he gave Jeffries tn, 2 hardest battle. of his life in twentysfiv' Ai key was very young at the game then
 he received Such terrific beating tha [ he lost much of his strength and vi taIity, and at the age of 31 he boxed ; ? six round draw with that noted pugil } istfc joke. Jack Munroe.
 Jim Corbett beat Sullivan when h' \ was 2S, lost to Fitg when he was 51, anC
 was sf when JeR put him away fl Frisco. Corbett is Al now, and stji [ thinks. for publication. that he car } fight well enough to beat Johnson.
 Jake Kiirafn, c great fighter in hji day, was .2S the year he fought Jen Mace iOs rounds on French soil. He was 90 when Sullivan beat him in seventy five rounds, and was 33 when he met Slavin in a bout at Baltimore. Joe Goddard knocked Maher out in three
 rounds at Coney Island when he was 31. He was fighting all comers in South J Africa at se, and tackled Sharkey ill Il Philadelphia three years later. Peter | Jackson won the Australian title from Tom Lees na battle at sydney when I he was 25. He beat Jem Smith in two rounds in London at the age of 2S,Nand I was two years older when he boxe&(a l sixty-one-round affair with Corbett which vas declared mo contest" Jack l son was 37 years old when Jeffries knocked him out in three rounds, his 1 first defeat in fifteen years