Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-01-29
Hay, Grim ana Feed
THREE WISE MEN
MADE Inn JEFFRIES
Delaney, Brady ana Tommy Ryan
Brought Out the 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, supplies a highly interesting
chapter to the present day gossip re-
garding Jim Jeffries, says Bob Edgren
in the New York 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 Jeffries to tackle
Jack Johnson.
Jim Jeffries could beat Tommy
Burns without training any more than
getting hair cut" says Tuthill He
could beat John l. Sullivan the best
day John ever knew. He is the great
est prize fighter that ever lived. Pic
ture man weighing 220 pounds, per-
fectly proportioned, who can do the 100
yards dash in 10 1-2 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"
There will never be another Jeffries
unless circumstances so shape them
selves that conditions can be repeated.
Jeffries was the outcome a-pecdliar
condition in the fighting game.
Slow at First
1.-THE study of the fighter is fasci-
mating one. Just take this giant as a
sample. His people were lowly, per-
haps, but refined. His father was
minister. Jeffries, when ne started
out, showed none of this innate BRAN
power. 1t was undeveloped. He had
the remarkable physique and that was
ALL He began fighting and at the time
when he started out there was a re-
markable bunch Of heavies doing bust
ness. 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-Delaney, Brady
and Tommy Ryan. Delaney worked
with him to keep him in healthy con-
dition. Brady taught him to save his
money and showed him how to live.
thereby awakening his dormant mem
tally. And, to finish this, Tommy
Ryan, with that wicked way of his.
used to take him into the gymnasium
day after Gay and deliberately cut him
to ribbons. The work of Delaney re-
tanned for him his wonderful strength.
the work of Brady brought out his in
telligence 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 deveI-
oped his brain too much is not the
ideal fighter. Take Jim Corbett, for
instance. He is a brainy man. He.
therefore, was too high strung to be
fighter like Jeffries or Fitzsimmons.
He had had too much of the animal
educated out of him. He reasoned that
he could keen from being punished.
Jim Corbett could use a 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 extreme.
He was of such a low grade Of mem
tality that he had no reasoning power.
A blow on the jaw that gave pain
brought no response from the brain.
He just dimly figured that he had been
hit, and his only desire was to hit the
man who did it. In the man of his
brain power the senses are dulled.
Jeffries a Happy Medium.
"Jeffries was the happy medium. He
was a man of native intelligence, but
his early environment had not permit
ted 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 TAX
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