The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-02
JEFF TELLS ABOUT HIS
DREAM OF Big VICTORY
Great Scrapper Tells How He
Knocked Out Johnson in
Just Four Rounds.
THINKS 1T WILL COME TRUE

For the second time within a month
Jim Jcnrios has dreamed that he
knocked out Jack Johnson in four
rounds.
A great many battles. OF course, are
settled in dreams. Bill Squircs dream
Corbott dreamed that he beat Fitz
Sometimes they come true and very
often they repeat with the reverse
English.
Jeffries, however, is one of our best
little dreamers. Before every big fight
Jeff has at least two dreams concern
ing the result. He is extremely nerv-
GUS just prior To big so. and his
troubled sleep is the result Df these
dreams.
Here Is the dream:
-Four rounds was all the fight went.
and | won with a left hand hook To
the jaw. AS l remember the thing
now, ii was a very warm day. | had
never fought i'm the open air before
and the light kept me squirting all
the time. Johnson and / tossed n coin,
for corners and he won, taking the
chair with the sun Co his back. In
my corner the sun was right i'm my
eyes. and Kid Mccoy. who was behind
me, held n parasol over my head as |
sat there waiting for the bell to ring
He kept telling me funny stories. Tim
McGrath was n great fellow for taxi
ing a mans mind off the fight by tell
ing these stories, and Mccoy had me
giggling like a big KID at the jokes.
81 was a bit nervous, at that. NY
first real fight i'm about seven years,
you know, and the mob, buzzing and
looking at me like gawks made me
fidgety | don't remember much about
the first three rounds except that ]
missed a lot. My eye wasn't right for
distance I could see Johnson's black,
shining head i'm front of me, but every
time / let go 1t seemed that he wasn't
there. The sun was awfuly warm on
my head and shoulders 1t reminded
me of the night l fought Sharkey.
They had about 10000 electric lights
over the ring for the moving pictures
and it was like fighting in an oven.
"Old Billy Jordan was the referee
yes, | remember Bill hopping around.
Seems funny having Jordan as ref
cree, but I remember that we had an
awful fuss over the referee and finally
all hands decided that Billy was the
one man who suited us all.
The sun that day was low, and i
10 oil 10 OF ,i,,
where ii hit me in the face | always
backed around until got Johnson over
there and had my back to It,
My mouth was swollen from jabs,
remember and it felt as though a
bee had stung me. Neither one II
us was bleeding at all. I know that
my lips bothered me. and the knucllc
on my right hand was bad from where
I belted Johnson on the head. when
I went to my corner i'm the third round
ncCoy told me to slam when John
son did, and that the chances of a
clean punch were better If / could
connect.
1--WE got close just after the bell AM
exchanged punches to the body.
know mine seemed to sting him, as
he fell on my shoulder just for a sec
ond after we landed. i could hear a
terrific shout. Someone, or rather all,
in my corner were waving their hands
10 rush him. waded i'm and forced
Him toward his corner. He shot out
his left at my nose again, and I hook
ed the left over on his chin.
"'rhere he goes!' they yelled. He
fell on the ropes; just sank like Il
brick chimney hit in the middle by a
cannon ball. His knees sagged and re-
fused the weight OF his body. His
head hit the lower rope and as Jordan
counted the 10 seconds off | stood
against the post is my corner. ! could
hear the bowls, JEFF wins, JEFF wins!'
II guess | was so excited that | woke
up and then again heard. JEFF wins!
| rubbed my eyes and sat up to listen.
II was Berger on the phone i'm the
hail telling Gotch that I won n bet
from him that we left To Berger TO de-
eide. Yes. JEFF wins Berger kept
saying, and then I jumped out of bed