The daily sentinel., 1910-01-21
BIG CROWD is HERE TO GREET
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Junction. With the possibility of the
| big Jeffries-Johnson fight July 4th
being held in Salt Lake City and
thereby affording local fans a splen-
did opportunity to witness 1t, interest
probably centers in the fighting form
| of the big man. The question is ask
| ed from coast to coast and from
Michigan to Mexico is, can Jeffries
regain his form?
| The following from the pen of one
of Denver's leadinging sporting writ
ers, in the Republican. is encourag-
ing to those who are eager to see the
| heavyweight title returned to the
white race;
In the short time that Jeffries was
in the ring last night doing his var
ious training stunts of shadow boxing.
exercising, rope-skipping and boxing,
1t was noticeable to every ringsider
that the champion was breathing
hard. The altitude may have had
some effect upon him, 1t is true. But
for a man who has been doing the
vast amount of work that he has on
this trip, II appears that the cham
pion is due for several weeks of the
hardest kind of road work If he is to
remedy this fault. -atf1 q lH
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Jeffries showed form that was rather
surprising in view of the numerous
bear stories that have been circulated
about him. His abdominal exercises
showed that the muscles in that reg
ion were in fine shape. The same
was true of his back, legs and arms.
There Is no superfluous flesh on
Jeffries. At least none that can not
be easily disposed of without any
harm to him. His biceps showed
plain and distinct when flexed. Ills
legs are hard and sinewy.
THE most favorable feature of his
condition is his speed and foot work.
| The champion is faster than he used
to be. There Is no question about
| that. He skipped about with ease
and dexterity. ducking, feinting,
lodging with skill that he could not
have claimed in the olden days.
| Weighing his increased speed and
hard muscles in the one scale against
the lack OF wind in the other. itewould
appear always, considering the very
short time that he was on the stage,
that the champion can get back into
form by the time set for his fight with
the colored man-Jack Johnson. But
| 1t will require all OF the hard noun
tain training that he can get in. There
must be no shirking, but a hard
steady grind of road work and other
exercise tending to put him in conoi-
| ton to do the work that will be re-
quired from him by the elusive negro.
From the standpoint of boxing,
the three rounds that Jeffries went
with Sam Berger. was somewhat of
farce. 1t consisted very largely of
horseplay on the part of Berger who
spent most of his time devising sit
uations which would leave him open
to the rushes of the champion JEFF
fries at times. however, showed flash
es of form that will make johnson
| fight hard. The white mans left,
used with great speed, could easily
have been made effective enough for
knockout several times during the
three rounds, had the champion so
desired. As 1t was, at times Berger
took some none too gentle raps.
The chief thing about the boxing
was the amount of work that Berger
made the champion do. He had him
rushing all over the ring all of the
time that the boxing was on. Jeffries
had little time to rest and. after all,
that is what the boxing each night is
for-not so much to please the crowd
with any fighting as to help Jeffries
to get back into condition"
Interest however, centers not ex-
clusively on the champion, Jeffries.
| Frank A. Gotch. numbers his admir-
ers by the hundreds in every city and
town in the country. His career as
been a spectacular one and one with
out an equal. From an Iowa corn
husker he developed in an amazing
quick time into one of the foremost
athletes of America. His fight for
supremacy is too well known to need
recounting, and then too, he is the
Ladies Favorite."
And DIR. Roller, of Seattle, known
the world over for his scientific meth
DDS of training and his brilliant
theories of hygiene. He ranks sec
ond only to Gotch.
! DIR. Roller is a rather unusual per
. sonality in the sporting world. He is
a trained surgeon and graduated from