Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-02
BOTH FIGHTERS
ARE IN FINE TRIM
Physician Examines the Big PugilistA
and Says They Are Phys.
ically Sound.
TRAINING SEASON Is AT AN END
Jeffries Goes Fishing and Johnson
Idles About Camp.
WILL MIX 1T FROM START
Former Champion Says He Will End
it in Few Rounds.
TOMMY BURNS REACHES RENO
Ex-ChRmpiOn, Who Was Put out by
johnson, Says Negro IL No Match
for Jeffries-Betting slow
In New York.
TRAINING SEASON IS AT AN END
Jeffries Goes Fishing and Johnson
Idles About Camp.
dMY BURNS REACHES RENO

johnson, says Negro IL No Match
for Jeffries-BettinE slow
In New York.
RENO. New. July l-At last the long.
hard grueling training seems to be at an
end in the camps of both johnson and
Jeffries. Both fighters declared last night
that they had done their last bit OF work
before the fight Until the call Of time on
July they say they will devote themselves
entirely TO amusement and light forms "
exercise, such as walking.
Each man says he is fit. Jeffries romped
like school boy at his camp at MoanA
Springs today. johnson, smiling as usual.
! Joked with his trainers and reiterated his
statement that he is in condition to put up
the battle of his life.
Il am going to win this fight. 1 never was
! in better shape in my life. 1t is my inten-
ton to go right after johnson and knock
him out as soon possible. l intend to
take large amount Of punishment in order
| 10 get to him quickly. But you may depend
| III infhct greater punishment in return"
said Jeffries.
COrbetts Opinion.
IT'S all right said Corbett last night.
| 'Jeffries is going to win. l wish, however,
! he would go out tomorrow and do fifteen
rounds of fast boxing just to put him ON
edge for this fray. But he says he won't
do this and certa'nly no one can force him
to do thing he doesn't want to. However,
he's is great condition and Will come out
| victor"
| Jack Johnson it not at all nervous. Tom
Flanagan, his manager, does not think it
would be possible to perturb the colored
man.
| ic IN
2OS pounds" said Flanagan last night He
will win, first, because he is the craftiest
man in pugIllsm and, secondly, because
neither Jeffries nor any other living man
can come back after being out of the
fighting game as long as he has been"
DIR. Examines Fighters.
Both fighters are fit, according to DR..
w. $ Porter, family physician to Jeffries.
DR.. Porter examined Johnson at his camp
J yesterday.
I'm glad to see you, DOCTOR" said John
; son, addressing the physician, when he saw
him at the ringside. Can 1 do anything
! for you?"
The fighter and the physician talked for
a few minutes and then Or Porter ex-
amined the negros heart action. After
8 Johnson had gone through his exhibition
PAGES the physician made a second exami
IL
pitation and thought johnson was in good
condition.
Later, at JeffrieF' camp, Dr. Porter ex
pressed the opinion that Jeffries was in
: fine fettle.
: He has the appearance of a perfect ath-
S lete in the white, If he is everythi else"
+ said the doctor. NO mans eye can look
:. as Jeffries' do and not be fit for the battle
e of his life"
i johnson WANTS to Bet.
! That Johnson thinks mighty we'll of his
chances in the fight is shown by his state
! ment last night, that he had 5000 to bet
, on himself. y local stakeholder announced
that he had placed the greater part OF
\ $1,000 left with him at 10 to IA, and tha
5000 more would be forthcoming from the
!, champion today at the same odds.
Betting continues light. Some layers are
: offering odds OF 10 to IA on Jeffries, but
:, even money that Jeffries will not knock
- johnson out in nineteen rounds
y When Manager Berger went out to look
. over the Reno platform yesterday, he found
- structure so solidly built that an elephan,
= might dance about on it without causing
. the least vibrations. The ring is supported
= by sixteen posts six inches square and the
=, platform rests on twenty-five joists a foot
- wide, by two inches thick. These jolsts in
turn are supported by girders every eight
80 feet. The flooring itself is two inches In
a, thickness, not TO mention the covering o.
~ felt and the canvas to be stretched oyel
a. that Berger was entirely satisfied.
in JeffrIes Goes Fishing.
Dust-covered and tired but beamIna
nj with good nature and his creel bulging
with good Truckee river trout James
Jeffries returned TO Reno this afternoon
n from an early trip to Verdi, up in the
slopes Of the Sierras above the city THAI
r. is the way he proposes to spend his tim,
from now until he shakes hands with Jaci
johnson on July and the battle is on.
Jeffries left his camp at $3.50 o'clock thii
- morning. With two friends on whom n,
er could rely not TO talk fight TO him. h,
ed went up to Verdi by automobile. Shortl!
1T after sunup the trio We're deely absorbe,
Tx in their angling, and thoughts Of training
lg prize-fghtng betting odds and all kin
Nv dred matters were the last things to ente
ed their minds. The fishing was good and be
n fore Jeffries consented 10 start back 4
at camp twenty-one good sized trout lay snul
ed in hts creel
he The return TO Reno was accompiishes
,Iy in fast time. When the former champio
is appeared in the lobby Of one OF the bi
an hotels no one mad any difficulty in recog
nizing him. 'ile was the center OF a star
- ing, jostling throng almost before he Sc
foot in the place. 1t seemed very dis
tasteful to him and almost Immediately h
broke away from his friends and hastene
back to his quarters in time for luncheon
Jeffries smiled on everybody who cam
= within range and shook hands when he ha
Il to in an embarrassed sort Of way a
though he did not know what all the fus
was about. Jim breathed a sigh OF relic
ed when he was back in the car and heade
m, for his camp again
Va AS soon he arrived at his quarter
Jeffrles headed for his room and prompt
be went TO sleep 10 make up for the hour
! lost By his early rising
re johnson Takes it Easy.
or Camp johnson, although the stellar al
a traction was in evidence all day, was jus
es. as quiet as Camp Jeftries. Jack loiie
2" about the place throughout the morninl