The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-29
SPORTS S,
WILL BE FIGHT
s.. OF THE CENTURY
Jeffries, If He Wins, Will Be First
Man TO Regain Laurels.
(Br Eddie Smith.)


San Francisco, Oct. 2s.-Through-
>ut the length and breadth OF this
great country the reigning topic for
Jiscussion Is the Jeffries-Johnson pro-
posed championship fight. and with
San Francisco in the lead as the pos
sIble battle-ground, we OF the Pacific
coast. are even more than passingly
Interested
For thelsystematic manner in which
Jefrfies has gone about his training
and preparing for the battle he is en-
titled TO the greatest credit His has
bom an unprecedented effort to re-
snansa lost condition. and II he Is suc-
! cossrli II Will be the first time In the
history OF the game that a man has
escr retired from active participation
J in II for almost flve years and then
! come back and won battle.
Thnt Jeftriee Is different from tho
ordinary fighter lie best shown by the
fact that he hns gone through this
long course OF preparation before he
would dociare himself Jeffnes has
I always been known TO be entirely diff
ferent from the ordinary run OF peo-
/ pie and We realize It now more than
ever.
Biggest Event Of All Time.
When Jeffrics and Jack Johnson sit
doFn to their talk about the coming
tnatch and make certain conditions
that both Will agree TO, the managers
and spectators will no doubt be face
, to face With the two greatest living
Fighters and will witness the signing
of articles for the biggest pugilistic
event that has been pulled off the
world oyer. In feos, no sporting ovent
Of the past century has ever attracted
the attention that this fight WILL
The condition OF Jeffries Will. OF
course, be tho most important factor
in tho contest. II Il takes place, for
upon the condition into which the big
fellow works himsolf Will depend hls
chances for victory. Even Jeffr1os
most ardent admirers have given up
the theory that JeI can beat the col
ored man unless he Is In tho condi-
ton, and the old saving that Jcffries
can win because the negro is afraid
OF him has been dropped.
When jeff left Los Angeles to ap-
pear at the Wjgwam theatcr In San
Francisco he WIS poor example Of
an athlete. He WAS fat and soft and
MS WlnE WIS C1lCHs II bcL H. JcuT1GS
was so bad that he found It too hard
on him 10 box three one-mpute
rounds and thoy were cut to forty
hve seconda- Even though he was IN
this deplorablc condition. however, ho
still maintained the old speed on his
feet and In his boxing he showed up
as well as he ever did.
AT that tIme there was every rea.
son To believe that he had little Idea
OF fighting. He had a chance to pick
up a littlo easy money, and he did
so. For that week JeffrIes received
. 50 5o0--not. stage money. but real
coin, Of the realm with the stamp Of
Uncle Sam on It, After that engage
ment the Morris Syndicate offered him
twenty weeks work at $500 a week
and he accepted.
During the trip around the country
Jeff worked every day a little bit. and
some DAYS went through q regular
course of training Before long he
began TO unllmbcr and get back to
the condition that he wanted, and as
time went by he announced that he
would fight when lie felt that he was
ready
AT that time there was any number
OF his best friends who believed that
the big fellow would not fight, but he
has since come through with such
strong statements about what he
would do that even those who once
disbclieved In his sincerity must ad-
mit that things now look az II he will
fight.