Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-01

will whip our big and indicated
cepts, the victor will win the und
and Johnson can go away back a
give Johnson a moments conslde
Delaney made Jeffries champion of
the world and now believes he has his
successor, and there is little chance for
doubling that Delaney really believes
Kaufman can whip Jeff. He does not
believe that the big boy ever can get
back into condition to make much
of a showing in the ring, and as the
heavyweight situation has developed
into dispute between Jeffries and
Johnson as to who is who in the cham
pionship ranks, Delaney wants to set
tie the question by arranging a Jeffries~
Kaufman fight. One of them must
win. and unquestionably nothing less
than the undisputed heavyweight
championship would go to the victor.
That certainly would be one way of get
ting around the necessity for ac-
knowledging a negro as the champion
of champions
Delaney is so sure that Kaufman
will whip Jeffries that he is willing to
agree that the fight snail be staged IN
Jeff's own club and that Los Angeles
man shall referee. He believes that his
wonderful boy will outslug the king OF
them all and be able to trim him so de-
cisively in twenty rounds that there
would be no question regarding the SUI
periority of Kaufman as fighter. AS
AL is committed almost irreVocaDly
against fighting a negro, and his plans
for becoming the heavyweight cham
pion of the world are sadly disarranged
because of the claim of Johnson, the
native son evidently has become des-
perate and is willing to take the risk
of being pounded to death in defeat by
Jeffries rather than risk defeat by a
negro. Al and Delaney evidently figure
that even if Al should be whipped by
Jeffries, the latter would retire again
and that johnson would be shorn of his
pretended honors when Jeff went back
in the ring to defend his own undls-
puted title. Then there is a chance
nothing more-that Al right be lucky
enough to stay until Jeff should break
both hands and legs and the native son
could win the undisputed championship
by the favor of an accidental fortune
1t is the opinion of about ninety
nine out of every one hundred sports
men in America that AL and Delaney
are about the only ones who really take
the native son so seriously as to give
low decides to accept the match, he
could go in the ring and win without
training Kaufman is so VIGOROUSLY
slow on his feet and with his jabsticks
that Jeff, whose speed, cleVerness ana
punch are classed as extraordinarily
hazardous weapons for any 1ghter TO
face. could get to him and beat him
half TO death before the first round was
half finished.
Jeff Still Has His Punch
That the big fellow still has his speed
and cleVerness is not to be doubted
for a moment, and if anybody is labor
ing under the impression that he has
lost his punch that individual can be
quickly disabused by giving it trial.
The only serious question regarding
Jeff's ability to defend his champion
ship successfully against all corners is
whether he has the endurance suffi-
cent to enable him to engage in a
bruising and extended fight. If he had
the wind" he could go into the ring
with any of them and with Justlhed
confidence in his ability to whip any
fighter in the world. He always has
been regarded as a sort of freak IN
that he never yet found the hgnteI
who could hurt him, despite the ter
rife blows they might rain upon him,
while his marvellous strength, sensa-
tional punching, great cleVernesS and
speed and his logged determination
made him inVincible in his day, and
there is ample evidence that he still
retains much of these quallIcdIlonS Vi
a world champion.
left has been pounded on the jaw by
men who could hit harder than Kauf-
mann, and nobody ever was able TO
whip him or make him slow down. He
would have no Fitzsimmons, Sharkey
or Corbett in front of him when he mel
Kaufman in the ring, and the native
son in all probability would be the
least dangerous of all the fighters jeff
ever met. Only in the event that JEFF
would be unable TO regain his wind
would Kaufman have any chance with
him, and then only in much longer
fight than twenty rounds. The scrap
would be a great drawing card, but
only because the sporting public has
come to idolize the big boy and look
upon him as a sort of king, and if he
should decide to engage in a fight
again. he, not his opponent, would be
the drawing card.
Lightweghts End Work
This will be the final day of training
for George Mensic and Frank Picato
in preparation for their ten-round
scrap tomorrow night at McCarey' S
club and the work today will be of a
light nature, as each has rounded into
perfect trim and is ready to weigh in
at the required 1873 pounds, which they
must make at o'clock tomorrow even
ing. Both boys did their regular stunts
yesterday and afterward said that they
had attained as nearly perfect condi-
ton as consistent and faithful effort
could bring about. Memsic weighed in
at exactly 1873 pounds, while Picato was
a pound heavier. Each will dry Out
sufficiently to make the weight without
the slightest trouble and neither has
been forced to sacrifice condition tC
make the weight.
Memsic rules favorite over Picato be-
cause the conservative fans are of the
kind that must be shown when a be
ginner goes after a veteran and eacf
seem to be about equal in all the essen.