The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-29
NUMDEROF ROUNDS
NOW THE QUESTION
Impression Prevails That JetIrles
VIII Win But in How Many
Session.
MEN ARE ERRATIC
IN THEIR TRAINING
Both jeff and johnson Bewilder
Followers by Changes in
Their Conditioning
Tactics.
BY Max BaIiiiasar,

NEW, June 2s.---~I think Jeffries will
rush and clean up in two or three
rounds"
No, he won't. He'll feel out the
black fellow for seven or eight rounds,
taking a good beating in the mean
time. And as soon as he finds that
the negro is becoming discouraged be-
cause his punches are doing no dam
age, then he'll sail In and finish things
up"
Why should he wait? Why should
he hold back and let the negro cut
him to pieces? All Jeffries has to do
Ia to stick out his chin, let Johnson
drive his hardest and when the cham
pion finds that the wickedest blow
he has in stock cannot down his OPP
ponent. Johnson will be pie"
Nothing like that. Johnson is too
clever. He can stall around for an
almost unlimited number or rounds.
and 1t will simply resolve itself into
a question of endurance. III Jeffries
is half as good as he looks when he
works, there Will be nothing TO II. l
figure that under these conditions
Johnson viii last about thirty rounds. !"
And so, ad inflnitum.
Gather q bunch of fans of the JEFF
fries persuasion, be they mere moul-
ders of personal opinion or moulders
of public opinion, and that's the sort
of talk you will hear. Jefffies will
win. one round, six rounds, fifteen
rounds, twenty rounds or thirty
rounds, Never has opinion as to the
duration OF big fight been so vary
ing with the ultimate 80 certainly Ak
ed In the minds OF the judges. Even
In Jeffries' camp the picking of rounds
Is as widely at variance as the Sc
lection of winning numbers on the
tables that one may discover
with a little effort and the aid of the
eappers.
To those with merely superficial
knowledge of what boxer should
do, the work OF the big fellows is
quite puzzle. Jeqffries IL loafing too
vast amount or labor he has already
Johnson is digging In too hard appar-
emily forgetting that he has not ap-
piled himself until within the past few
weeks.
The many unusual training phases
OF this contest are enough to put the
sternest mathematician TO the bad.
Jefrries passes the word that he Is
going to work his head off. Instead
he sits around and chats during the
and winds up the day with
a little joust with the trout
Johnson, scheduled to loaf, tears into
his work like a colored brother trying
To depopulate the entire chicken
world It's a funny game from any
angle and many dopesters will be sur
prsed when the battle ends on Mon
day.
In other ways the fighters show
strange contrasts from day to day. One
day johnson shows speed and conf
dence. The next he appears to be
half-hearted In temperament as well
as in work. Jeffries never loses con-
fidence. In fact. he seems to gain in
1t, his off days developing a greater
spirit of determination and grizzly
doggedness that when he Is feeling
good.
But IL is as to the manner OF putt
Ing aside his work tina causes the
greater comment. For instance on
after Jim had pulled off his
early morning boxing stunt. 1T WAS
given out officially by Manager Ber-
ger that his work for the balance of
the training spell would consist of
boxing In the morning and short
heart sprints" in the evening.
Not only did Jeffries entirely reverse
the program, but after switching the
heart sprints" to the morning he
cut out the expected boxiag in the
afternoo nand contented himself with
4 nap. a, private talk with Governor
"a rub down.
It is useless to accept program or
even to guess what the big fellow
will do from now until Friday. when
he IL 10 cut out all work and hurl
himself into the nerve racking dry
ing out" process, but he may box. or
he may sprint or he may loaf. They
are making book here ON what he
Intends to do and you can write your
own ticket
Jesfries The Favorits.
To- morrow the real betting will be-
GIN Last night 10 TO liz were the
prices. Some guess II will
go to 10 to and other look for 2 to
/. The odds as made here are ex-
pected to prevail throughout the
United States, although England may
continue to make Johnson the favorite.
The principal betting on the rounds
was even money that Jeffrfes would
not win sfu fifteen rounds.
There ID a trip out that Jsffries will
put forth his best endeavor rs mat
Ter of pride. to end tho battle within
II rounds.
Johnson some time ago predicted
that he would finish the white man
within Is rounds and Just to 60 him
,ne better. Jim wants things to be
wound zip In his own favor within
IL rounds,
Jeffries is sporting u mural decora-
ton OF the left eye d momento on
boxing session. The guilty
persons is not known, each OF the
Jour sparring partners claiming the
honor, with Berger having good lead
N the list,
Disquieting rumors regarding q
number Of minor physical ailments
suffered by Jeffries were circulated
about town last night. 1t IL admitted
that he had an attack Of Stomach
rouhle, which accounted for his fsil-
are to do much work Tuesday. Tim
-orbett experienced the samA troub1N,
1t to the water 1t Moafia
Springs.
Another rumor had to do with JEFF
'ries' right elbow. which IL said 70
De lnfiamed and which IL In need Of
an immediate operation. DIR. W. B.
Porter. ~ Oakland. who attended to
Teffries' knee. after Jim hurt II ut
Hardin Springs while training for
and who recently perforuaed
IN operation uron Mrs. jeffffta. wAa
with Jsfrrie41last svsntn9 ~