Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-04
JEFFR|ES GIVEN
FITTING FAREWELL
About Two Hundred Friends Say
GOodby to Him at the
Arcade Depot
BEGINS TRAINING TOMORROW
Big Fellow Goes to Frisco to
Meet Berger and Burns
This Morning
BEGINS TRAINING TOMORROW
nj JAY DAVIDSON

Jeffries left on the Owl yesterday
evening for San Francisco to meet his
manager, Sam Berger, and Farmer
Burns, who will help him train for
the big scrap July 4, and was given a
fitting yet simple farewell by about
200 friends and admirers who met his
party at the Arcade station. jeff was
accompanied by Mrs. Jeffries and
Charles (Tod) Boyer, his nephew. and
Russell Kissler, his cousin. He also
took along his two favorite dogs. In
cluding the shaggy-haired Russian
staghound that he named Jeffries and
with which he plays so much when
resting. In the party of friends who
babe him farewell and the fullest sue
cess in the fight were John Brink, Ed
die Maier. Hen and Clarence Berry.
Jack Ripper. Barney Oldheld, Mel
Nordlinger and others.
Jeff will meet Berger and Burns in
Frisco this morning, and after some
minor business the party will board the
night train for Rowardennan Park,
where the big boy will remain until he
goes to Emeryvillle next July to fight
the negro. Bob Armstrong left on the
7:45 O'Clock train for Rowardennan
Park. and will wait there for jeff and
his party. 1t is the intention of the
big fellow to start hard work tomorrow
morning and TO keep 1t up until he has
put himself into satisfactory condition
He expects to be able to let up in his
work fortnight before the fight and
do only light training for speed. jim
Corbett and Frank Gotch will join the
party about May Is. and Sam Langford
will be with him at least a month pre-
vious to the fight.
Although JEFF does not like anything
approaching adulation. he appreciates
his friends, and the sight of so many
of them at the station, when no effort
had been made to organize farewell
party, caused the big boy to feel proud
Of his home friends. Although there
were no brass band f1xings to the fare
we'll sendoff JEFF knew that it was sin
cere friendship and good will that had
moved this big crowd of friends to go
to the station to see him off. In the
crowd We're quite a number of women
friends of Mrs. Jeffries. Jeff, like a big
boy. did not do much -handshaking
when it came time to get aboard.
WOODMAN Is AFTER BURNS
Joe Woodman, manager for Sam
Langford, will go to Frisco tonight to
investigate all this hot air talk about
a Burns-Langford 45-round fight in
September and to witness the George
Memsic-Lew Powell fight that is sched-
sees a juicy purse rather out of the
ordinary for Langford. in prospect for
this fight. and as Burns has signified
his acceptance of the terms and con-
ditlons proposed by Promoter Sid Hes
ter he believes the business arrange
ments for the Langford end can be
fixed up without much trouble.
If all reports are correct, or even
half way so, it seems that Sid Hester
a a inh nd
he gets away with it he will be rated
as a serious rival to Jim Coffroth, who
has handled practically all the high
finance fights in Frisco for a long
time. Hester is said to have offered
Burns $4,000, win. lose or draw. and
this sort of noise has made an i'm
preston upon Burns, who has wired for
transportation. If this Is true Lang
ford will insist upon getting quite a
nice guarantee for himself, as he really
will be the drawing card of the match.
LANGFORD is WORKING HARD
Those who have an idea that Lang
ford is going to have a dead easy time
with Jim Barry can make friends with
Sam by proving it to him. The Bos-
ton terror is working harder than he
did while training for the last fight
with Jim Flynn, and his efforts bear
out the sincerity of his talk when he
says that Barry is the toughest nut
he ever has had to crack, and that any
fighter who can put him down as
Barry did in recent fight must be
respected. Langford will be in perfect
condition for the fahht and hopes to
prove to Barry's own satisfaction that
he is the superior fighter. This means
that Sam is figuring on a knockout.
He worked in the open air gym at
Arcadia yesterday before a crowd OF
700 fans and wound up the work with
three rounds each with Arthur Collins
and Beorge Byers and put the finishing
touches on an aspiring pug who re-
fused to give his name.
Barry has not started hard work yet,
as he says he feels that a rest of a
few days will be as beneficial as hard
work, and he needs rest more than
work. He will start light training to-
day and jump in tomorrow for the more
strenuous stunts and keep pegging
away. until the day previous to the
fight. Bad Bill Aldridge will be his
chief trainer. Barry says that he
trained so faithfully for his fight with
Jack Burns that he is in better con-
dtion to start training than would
have been the case had he been idle
for some time.