The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-30
Jeffries Goes About Business Of
Training for big Bout Like
Pick Handler on Rail
3 a. 81 road Tracks.
MANY WATCH The men WORK
White Gladiator is Serious, but He
Laughs at Times-Champion Gives
Musical Prelude to His Spar
ing Scenes.

Reno, New, June 30.--Here is a view
of the daily morning ceremony that Is
helping to make Reno a name i'm the
worlds mouth wherever wires spread.
What happened this morning at Mea-
ma Springs before the sun was well
up over the ragged tops of Washoe
range may be described as typical of
what has been appening for few
days. and will continue to be daily
morning ceremony until July 4.
There is valley. blue green with
alfalfa. a sun-baked range of noun
tains on the east and the snow
splotched Sierras on the west; n
sprawling white bathhouse over hot
soda spring on one side OF a dusty
road, and on the other low cottage
covered with vines. Behind the cot
tage Is n tent, and the tumbled bed
ding on a cot with it always holds the
spectators eye for moment.
Whispers IN Their Ears.
Near the tent and just where two
cottonwood trees mingle their branch
es to make a shade Is small dancing
platform, and its surface is covered
with little Jumps of rosin and rosin
dust.
on the night before Jack Jeffries
draws this or that newspaper man
aside and whispers IN his ear that he'd
better get out To the springs early
next morning. for the big fellow is
going to get to work before the sun
is too hot. Brother Jack gives this
advice tentatively and with an air as
of i'm some degree betraying a conf
dencc.
The electric car that leaves Vir-
1880 o'clock the next morning Is COM
fortably crowded. The occupants are
mainly newspaper men, photographers
and sports who have dropped into
town from Pacific coast points.
BY $3.50 o'clock there are about 100
people about the dancing platform in
the yard of the training quarters at
the springs. The privileged ones are
allowed to occupy the seats along the
four sides of the platform. Behind
these seats the plain citizens of Reno
are allowed to stand.
long. lanky negro in black bath
robe comes through the kitchen door
and climbs onto the platform; that's
Bob Armstrong, one of the trainers
and a sparring partner. Then through
the door comes Jeffries. The fighters
face is fatty Unconditional; he goes
about his business with the dispas-
slonate air of a pick handler on the
railroad tracks.
They Put on the Gloves.
The negro drops his bathrobe and
both put on the gloves While they
do so the interlude is filled with nod
dings and whisperings among the Sc
lect spectators on the benches. JEFF
fries and the negro begin to spar
They go for three rounds. During
each of them the white fighter with
the fiat. uninterested expression on his
Drowned face does his business with
unbroken seriousness. Pop" Van
court and Jim Corbett confer in whis-
pered sentences. They extol the speed
which Jeffries shows.
After Armstrong retires Sam Berger
Is taken on for three more rounds. In
one of these rounds JEFF, for the firsi
time. shows human emotion as he sud-
denly lifts Berger's guarding right
with a sweep of his fist and crushes his
right into Berger's stomach. H'
laughs and the spectators join.
"How's that for high?" says Jeffries
and he continues his work of prac-
ticing crushing blows on Berger's body
only he puts pull" on his arm.
After Berger come Choynski and
Corbett.
For forty-five minutes of breathles'
boxing the spectators have all theil
expectations of thrills and shocks full
filled. Then. at the end. the big maj
neck wrestling with Farmer Burns
After this, with the same serious bust
ness air. Jeffries stalks off to his rub
bing room to be kneaded and maIle'
in the hands of his masseurs. Thus thu
ceremony at Moana Springs comes L
its conclusion.
A far different spectacle Is that which
Reno attends i'm the afternoon out a
Ricks' Road House. This Is n vaude
vile performance with a pleasurabl'
dash OF excitement thrown I'm intermit
tently. There are said to be three
hundred automobiles in this little des
ert city at present. and all one has e
do to get to Champion Johnson's
training quarters Is TO stand on an!
corner and hold IS gold piece up L
the sun.
There's No Other Way.
There is no other way, except o