Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
jim JEFFR|ES IN
FINE FIGHTING FORM
George FrawIey Brings Glow
ing Accounts From Germany
of the Big Fellow.
By CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
speciaI Correspondence OF The Star.


Chicago dead-game. on an ocean liner
pier, where he'd just disembarked from
one of the German dachshunds-I mean
greyhounds. F'rawley had been taking
the "cure'-if anybody can tell what that
means. considering the recent death OF
the famous American financier after TAX
ing the cure in Choimany-at Carlsbad
At Carlsbad the Chcagoan was with
the big feIler one ]. Jeffries by name, for
more than a month. And Frawleys WORD
n bout the way things are going with Jefr
IS pretty inspirting. considering the soft
way Johnson is getting away with the
big dubs he is picking out for himself
right along.
.Wait'H you see Jeff, that's all, was
Frawley's enthusiastic method OF open
ing. Hell be back i'll a few weeks, ana
YOU want to climb out OF the shuchS
early. if he hits the beach in the morn
ing, and just have peek at MN, t tnat
Ali, If YOU don't say that he looks better
than he ever did in his hte-l mean S'ric'-
~ as an athlete. at that-then II puy
Nour trolley tickets for the rest OF your
natural.
..Jeff's been taking that Carlsbad cure
Won know. Now, it takes a strong glnk
10 take that thing. as witness mNseii.
took il all right, but if L hadn't peei
raised to life of warfare, on corned Deel
and cab-bahi. and such-lke, q never
have got through Takes a strong man
to go through with the Carlsbad NUMBER,
but if you do get through with 1t, why,
you're. the boy that's born again. an
right and that's what you ii De Saying
of Jeff when you lamp him.
Say ! believe he could mooch INTO Tue
ring with the dinge tomorrow and make
him look like one of those mutton ste" >
that's been left simmering 100 long.
don't believe Jeff weighs an ounce NOR {
than tUo-fifteen if that, and there
nothing around his plimsoll line that you
could get even a candle-maker 10 can
fat and the layers OF muscle stahu oul
on his abdomen like cordage drill on d
man-o'- war. He is absolutely III anu
fine OF course he'll be taking lot OF
road work and doing the open-alr ti1hS
generally. But the main thing Is tlat ne
has demonstrated TO his own sa'iSlaGtIo,l
that he is perfectly hunky-dory 10 cllinp
into the ring and put up one OF lio ~
time battles: and still bigger 'nihs IMAM
that is that he's going TO DO 1t.
II have his own word as to that, re
heated over and over again There ism |
any manner of doubt that ne sonls ~
light Johnson. and at very nlucii ca 80.
date than the public supposes. at mat
always sIpposing, of course. that JOHNSON
can be nudged into the ring al the eariiel
time I mention. Jeffries told me tiiiie aliu
ayain-jt is a thing that Is on MS Iiiiu
a
the point and climax of his ring career 10
got into the ring with Johnson ana put
the dinse away. He's in deadly earnest
about it. at that. There's 1etchlns 70
getber Of his jaws when he gets on tne
tonic. that clearly shows where he stanos
OH that issue.
~ don't mind saying. JEFF SAID 70 me
ono day at Carlsbad, only Il couple Oh
weeks ago, that al first. after Johhsoll
had nut it on Burns, / had no ldea vi
hi a
lunlmoxy and fat for one thing not 1Ioli.
drink, understand. because all or tnal
drink stuff that was printed was pure IN
vention. Blu: I'd been softing arounu'
taking it easy. for a numner Oh seai
and l didn't look like q hgh'ihs ."oooH
ton to myself any more
Then, when the bunch all over the
country began to clamor for me 10 Se'
into trim for Johnson. ! chlrked 10 NJ
tie and began to sort of dope IL over oue
ifty-thousand-dollar vaudeville oate'
I wasn't anything like certain IN
cny own mind that Ia ever ne
able TO get ripe enough again Tor tnis
strong Johnson booS. You see, iounu
that a few rounds of boxing made me
panty and GREATNESS. and there was a
roll of blubber around the waistllne and
il seemed TO me that l must De IN iihe
Tor TOD member of the Fat Mems Cup.
But when they began to squeak that
was a 'fraid cat and that l jes' dissent
meet Johnson, well, that was different L
gave myself some strict treatment then'
and I began to find out, after Ie"
weeks of dieting and Keen WORK. 'ldt
-here was chance for me to get around
after all Then ! hit upon this Carlsbad
dope, with the hill-climbing thing on the
side and all that; and 1t has worked IKE
a charm All | need now Is the ROAD
work ard the boxing partners and the
R,ag-punching thing for a while. and I'll
lie there with the jinglers on for John-
son, and I'm pretty sure III get hlm, too.
1te been climbing these Dutch noun
taIns, as you know. every day Tor weeks,
and | lind tina. l haven't taken snort
breath for several weeks now. / CAM
remember when my wind was any better
and that, you know, was what l was
leary of from the besipning-the state of
my wind. l never doubted that l had
the strength to cover this Johnson man
W.. Now that I'm dead sure abou. the
wind, and that I've chopped the weight
down SO that / could hop in the ring to-
morrow If l had to. it's all fixed so far
as I'm concerned. You can tell em when
YOU get back that I'll be there hunting for
IL black man with or without bundle
inside of few weeks. AS for the fight
that I'll have with him. l think the re-
suit s as good as in I'm not there Will
the blurts generally. as perhaps you'll re-
member, but j am free TO say that l think
this Johnson meat, taking it all in all, is
going to be The softes. that I've stacked
up against in the whole course of my
ring career.
Frawley staked me to an entertaining
account OF the awe with which JeffrleS
in his training stunts, is held by the won
dering natives of Carlsbad and the sur
rounding country. They tag after him
when he does his climbing
stunts, on the theory that maybe They'll
see him -ull ~ a few large trees with
his teeth or stuff like that. and they look
upon him as "a type of the wild, weird
nncdnny, cave-dwellfng American citizen
Are. all Americans like that?' Frawley
heard a lot OF EN- ask as they saw JEFF
frleS. swaddled in his big green and red
sweater, and a dinky cap on one ear
nudSlng along at heeland-toe clip un-
der the hndens FrawIey said that he
saw Jeffries sprint Il measured hundred
yards several times at Carlsbad, and
once he timed him in 10 % seconds He
sa1d that Jefries retains every bit of the
speed OF his old foot-worls that he de-
Veloped under the tUtelage of Bob Fitz-
simmons, and that the town will be sur
prlSed 10 see the boilermaker when he
sashays off the big boat ON his return tic
N'Yawk.
Welcome to our fair city, little boiler
maker. There are quite a few millions
of persons here and i'm this vicinape
who'll chip In to buy you all the pink
lemonade YOU can ever consume in yo,Ir
lifetime if you hand that which YOU alone
CAN hand 10 the chocola -hued repre-
sentative from Galveston. Tex.
Frawley stopped off in Paris for few
days and saw a couple of those box fight
bouieva riders, y'know, have been bugs
nyar the bDX-pIIncb number fnr anita :.