The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-10
MORE ADVICE ID CHAMPION JEFFR|ES Some Real Fight g Consider
 ed Essential STORIES OF TIE RING How Hard Trainers Have Been Disap- pointed-Experts Are Fearful That "Jonslng" Will Win
 the Title.
STORIES OF THE RING
BY c. E. VAN LOAN.

BY c. E. VAN LOAN. New York. January 9-several solons Of the oueensberry game have been az itatine for some real try-outs for Jim Jerrr4es. They want to bet on him in his coming fight. but they do not want to bet biludIy They want to know whether he Is there"
 This isn't bad idea A man may train with the strength of bull and the en- durance of Marathoner, but training isn't fighting. Not by a long chalk One round of real fighting sometimes takes more gimp" out of a man than half q days hard work in the gymnasium. It's the nervous strain that does it.
 When old John L. Sullivan turned up in New Orleans to train for Jim Corbett. bunch of prominent sporting men filled the gymnasium to see him begin train ing. Old John was fat: there was no getting way from that But as fat as he was, there was one thing which he could always do. He could skip the rope as nimbly as any other big man. and 1t did not seem to affect his wind.
 John performed a few stunts, took hold of the waistband of his trousers and hauled in about foot of slack, and that was nought for the wise boys. They went out and offered three and four to one that John L. would lick the youthful Corbett. If "a Corbett man turned up with any money, they matched for him.
 Jimmy Britt never showed more power of endurance than in his training for the Colma fight with Bat Nelson. Britt was also a rope skipper. punched the bag and slugged with his sparring partners for about two hours every afternoon and such a glutton was he for work that he did not take the usual rest of one min ute between rounds. but shadow boxed or mauled a heavy bag while the trainers
 were resting. He seemed to be able to
 last from noon till sundown-and he 1 might have been able, had he played his own game and boxed with Nelson instead of standing up in the sixth round, to slug 1t out then and there.
 At the end of that terrific three min
 utes both men were very tired and Britt reeled to his corner, gasping for breath. I'm awful tired!' he said.
 All his weeks of hard woork, all his training for stamina and endurance left him weak and shsky after three minutes of real fighting.
 l talked with Bat Nelson in September of 1907. That was Bats bad year-the year when we all thought he was down and
 out He had but 2 light In 1907 and he
 lost it. He had rested almost year since Goldfeld. and he thought that in Jimmy
 Britt, whom he had knocked out two years before, he was picking a soft one. They fought at the end of July 1907, and Bat, never faster in his life for the first seven rounds of the fight, began to slow up in the eighth and was exhausted at the end of the fifteenth. If Britt had
 had any semblance of punch, Nelson
 would have been knocked out that night During the last two rounds he could not
 raise his hands, but reeled about the ring
 perfectly helpless Everybody thought 1t
 was the end of Nelson Surely Billy Mo-
 Ian thought so, for that was the last
 fight, which he handled for the Battler
 I saw Bat two months after that fight
 and Bat was worried about his physical
 condition. Of course, he knew oll about
 the beefsteak by that time and he bore
 down that toothsome alibi, but toward
 the close of his talk he tipped his hand
 I'm going away into the mountains"
 he said q think I can still fight hard
 fights and win. but I'm going to make
 sure. I expect to take one good man
 with n1e--a man who may not be the
 top notch lightweight, but still hardy
 tough fellow. who can punch as well as
 take an awful punching. I will pay that ! fellow to fight me to a finish somewhere
 on the quiet. After that fight, I'll know
 whether I'm there or not
 l never found out whether Bat kept to
 this plan, but I do know that he went
 away on a long hunting trip shortly aft
 erward and one year and one day from
 the date of that conversation Bat Nelson
 whipped Joe Cans for the second time by
 the knockout route and put the cast iron i rivets In his claim as the best lightweight ] alive.
 Jeff should have some real fights. The
 provisions of the articles of agreement
 will prevent him from engaging in public
 battles, but there is no reason why he
 should not take on some tough fellows
 and fight them to finish in private. He , will get nothing of assistance to him in 1 boxing with clever men. What he needs
 is real fighting. If Stanley Ketchel had 1 trained for his second O'Brien fight by trying to pick up cleverness. O'Brien
 would have outponted him because that
 is O'Brien's game
 Jeff will probably have the greatest all-
 star training quarter staff in history and
 seven or eight good cooks will always
 scramble the eggs and scorch the soup. What Jim needs Is big tough men. who | will stand up and try to knock his head ! off his shoulders. To win this fight he has got to perfect system of rushing 1 in with both hands and failing away until | he lands one good wallop, just as Stanley f Ketchei went after OBrien.
 It isn't going to be brain which will lick Johnson so much as brawn and the