The evening world., 1909-03-09

0ops ABOUT on his toes as gently as
fancy Tiger as Jem Driscoll, but he
After skipping rope, which has T
lately, JEFF pulled chest weights for a
while and then threw the medicine ball
with Sammy Berger. Sammy bounced
back like a rubber doll when the ball
landed on his front.
Then came the boxing One OF these
buttinski timers cut the rounds short
being over-anXlous to save wear
on the watch. The first round was
twenty-five seconds the second twenty
seconds. This was hardly enough TO
give any one a line on the giants skill,
especially as Jeffries merely tapped
Sammy on the nose now and then with
'ostman's double knock and varied
by putting two or three in the cellar.
JEFF, and few minutes later he went
out privately and punched an imaginary
opponent In dark corner until the per-
spration flowed.
Jeff's appearance satisfies the public
He looks pretty good, and with few
weeks OF real training ought to be ut
to whip any one.
TACK TWIN SULLIVAN beat Jim
Stewart nearly all the way In their
J ten.round bout last night Twin
collected no less than eight Of the ten,
and as Stewart made no showing worth
mentioning after the second, Twin won
easily.
1t looked like foolish match at the
start Stewart Is nearly as big as
Jeffries. He's an ideal athlete in ap-
pearance. Standing SIX feet two. he is
as thin and sinevy as n distance run
ner, yet scales 2l2 pounds in fighting
trim.
Against this magnificent spectacle
CHATS what Stewart was a spectacle.
not fighter stood little Jack Twin.
bald as an egg shorter than Stewart
by half foot, at least. and weighing
so pounds less. Stewart looked like a
fighter. Sullivan looked like anything
else.
They started. Stewart unlocked
half a dozen blows, any one Of which
would have removed Twins head ex-
cept for the fact that Twin moved 1t
in time himself or slapped the blows
aside. Two or three landed with q
thud tina, could be heard In the street
outside. y man near me turned and
said: Amt ii shame TO put that lit.
tie fellow in there to be slaughteredH'
Well, ii looked that wny.
Somehow Jacn Twin wriggled through
the first round without being more than
glazed. The second round went ll.tlc
better for Linn although it looked ms II
Stewart might land the one needed
punch at any moment
Then. al ~ a sudden, real class and
Iameness began to count. Sullivan,
d!sregard.rg Stewards terrific wal,ops,
went for tu" giant in series Of ushes
that threw in against the ropes. livery
couple of seconds Twins gloves bumped
on Stewards eye or ear or jg", o.
thugged into lis stomach S;"war.
didn't like It. lie jumped away like q
Jack rath,t, and seuoted around the
ring. He vas wonderfully 'ast for a
big man
Jack Twin had Stewart bufaloed
The crowd could hardly help laughing
at the sight OF the giant nimJly skip
ping away and running around and
around like a rabbit hunting a hole in
a wire fence while sullivan cornered
him every now and then and slammed
away until Stewart broke and ran.
There were times when the big fellow
stood IN and let drive as clean straight
punches as were ever seen In a rms
and corkera. too, Wit. Tie raj slum' r
dope in them In these intervals Suli.
van showed the benefit Of his skill, fcl
he either blocked or stepped inside the
blows. His Judgment was perfect
When Sewart punched too hard and
fast sullivan threw himself In and buf,
faloed James into another sprint.
Toward the end o. the Lgur stewart
was bleeding quite a little. He eveneL
this score by cutting Twins right eye