The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
JEFFRIES IS DOWN
 ID REAL TRAINING
Former Champion Enjoys His
 Daily Round of Work
PLAYS BALL VERY HARD
The Big Fellow Is Lively As a Cricket In Punching the Bag and Has Added n Course of Raisins
 to His Diet

Jeffries Training Camp, Rowardennan, April 9.-(Special )-For almost week Jim Jeffries has been in his training camp In the Santa Cruz mountain, and in that time he has had opportunity to thoroughly size it up from almost every augle. He has been on the roads, through the forest, boating on the river, fishing in the trout streams, in every nook and corner of the camp, and he has made up his mind that he likes it and likes it well.
 After lunch today while Jefferies was chatting with a group of friends and newspaper men, he was asked if he liked Rowardennan.
 ''Yes. I like it we'll" said Jeff. "In little while the river will be all right for swimming and then I'll have about everything I want"
 Jeff's whimsical tendency toward his daily programme of training appeared again today when the big fellow an- nounced that the first sparing bout with Bob Armstrong would once more be post poned.
 After the usual morning road work he returned in fine trim and laid out fine days work before him. But he eased up during the day and made very light afternoon of it, playing handball for an hour or so and hammering the punching bag for brief spell. The sparring with Armstrong was to have begun as soon after lunch as prdudent, but when a big box containing four sets of boxing gloves was dropped of on his porch, Jeffries glanced at them and said: Well, we'll use those on Monday
 It is said around camp that Jim wants to do his first work in the ring with Sam Burger, who is now in San Fran cisco and who will return tomorrow. This mornings road work was repetition of other mornings, the only variation being & nip and tuck race the last two miles into camp between Farmer Burns and Bob Armstrong. Jeff was far ahead of the pair when the Farmer boasted that he could beat Bob home, and he made good his boast until the last fur long, when long-legged Armstrong crowd ed on all his speed and won the race. But, at that, Jeffres was home ahead of the racers.
 After the usual bath, rub down and breakfast, Jeffries and his trainers took up the ball, bat and gloves for the pase- ball workout. Jeffriee played ball as hard as ever but complained that all the soreness had not left his shoulders. The big fellow has developed baseball finger Twice this morning his right fore finger, which was hit a couple or days ago, caught the ball on it's end Jeff let the first painful bang pass, but when the ball bruised the finger the second time he decided to stop baseball for the day.
 Berger's return from San Francisco with the automobile is being eagerly awaited by the fighter. The machine IS expected here tomorrow or next day.
 i've are going to use that automobile a lot" said ferries. After the road work in the morning we'll run down to Santa Cruz and get some salt bathing on the beach. We'll probably do that nearly every day. It will be a fine trip
 If the auto comes tomorrow Jeffries will probably curb his desire for a little whiz- zing over the mountain roads, for he mas promised to stay in camp all day after his morning road work to entertain the big crowd of excursionists which Is said to be coming. He will skip the rope, play handball and belabor the punching bag for the edffication of the visitors. The first work with the bag was begun today. It has been rigged up on the yeranda out side the ballroom gymnasium Jim tired out couple of new bags, but found them too light. An old bag was hung up and the big fellow danced around, banging 1t quick, snappy blows that made it rattle like a snare drum. The work showed him to be as quick and active on his legs as the average athlete of 50 or 65 pounds less weight.
 Raisins have been added to Jeffries training diet. J. R. Wilson, representing the California Raisin Day committee, came over from Fresno today with a large box of choice fruit and presented it to Jim. He was so well pleased with the fruit that he immediately sent tele- gram of thanks to Fresno and asked that another box of the same sort be sent to his mother in Los Angeles. EIe said the raisins were bully fruit and very nour- ich