The San Francisco call., 1910-07-02
JEEF WILL Fight
like CAVE BEAR
Shaggy Monsters Grim Resolve
to Win, Coupled With Long
Training, Make Him Fit
BY ROBERT EDGREN
Continued From Page IL, Column z
BY ROBERT EDGREN

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ansisted upon burdening Jeffries with
theories. Jeffries listened, then turned
on his heel and walked away without
word. He had no time or attention
to waste on fools
LISTENS TO GOOD ADVICE
Then two men who knew something
talked to Jeffries-Tommy Burns and
Sam Iangford He listened atten-
lively. L could see his mental
processes. He was taking each little
piece of information, weighing it care
fully, comparing it with what he al
ready knew and putting it away in his
mind for use when the time comes to
bring it out again.
Jefries has gone into this fight with
the most tremendous determination.
He has set his mind upon winning
set it with the hardness and rigidity of
| iron. This was at the time when he
first came out and announced that he
would fight. He is one of the most
careful and deliberate men in the
world. All the applause and fiattery,
all the efforts of the multitude to per-
suade him to come out and represent
the white race failed to move him an
inch until he knew in his own mind
that he could get into condition again
not half condition, but the old fight
ing condition that made him cham
pion without peer.
HIS IRON DETERMINATION
From the moment Jeffries made up
his mind to this I saw the iron deter
mination begin to show. He was fat
still and soft and good natured. But
a grim look came over his face and a
gruffness crept into his manner He
was thinking all of the time, every
waking hour of the day and the night:
Il must wini shall win,1 The thought
has been in his mindfevez since.
1 believe in mental influence most
thoroughly. l say here that half of his
present great condition Jeffries owes
directly to this constant iron determi-
nation. He has done more work than
any man ever did before in preparing
for a championship fight. He has COW
cred hundreds of miles on the road,
sweating in the blistering sun until the
fat literally rolled off from his bones.
He has worked doggedly and persist
emily through hundreds of sweltering
hours in the gymnasium, bringing out
the huge muscles that had shrunken
away, and making them larger and
rounder and more powerful than ever
before.
Through it all he has thought, hour
by hour: 81 must winl 1 shall win!
For months Jeffries, terribly sensitive
under cover of his bearlike silence, has
writhed under the criticism of men who
have driven out to see him, men care
fully brushed and combed, groomed for
the cafe and the hotel lounging rooms.
These men have seen Jeffries working
savagely, covered with sweat, dirty,
unshaven, with his face scanned and
lined where the heavy skin has shrunk
to take up the place of the fat that has
gone.
..Jeffries looks Old they cried
through the papers. He is all
wrinkled He sweats too easily. He
is still fat"
Jeffries asked foolish questions
turned away with savage impatience
and the shortest of answers, or none.
"Jeffries is grouchy," cried the crit
les. His nerves are breaking down
under the strain"
SHORT SHRIFT FOR CRITICS
.D-n these fools,'' said Jeffries to
me. Here l have come out because
the whole country wanted me TO, and
now they roast me-. I'm giving up
year of my life to work hard for them
and they say I'm a wrinkled, fat old
man. What in hi do they know about
training? What do they know about
what's inside of me? I've a good mind
to throw up the whole thing and go
down home. D-n them but 1 won't
do it. I'll make fools of them all.
must win this fight; l shall win it."
There it was again, the iron mind
welding and tempering the iron body
and preparing it for a wonderful fight.
The difference in Jeffries' condition
began to show sharply now. The last
rolls of fat disappeared. Muscles that
he had not shown for years leaped up
into sharp relief. His waist fell in and
his chest bMged to the rude outline of
a granite beuled. His arms became
huge. The stretched skin drew down
tight and smooth. Jeffries began work
ing for speed and endurance only. The
visiting reporters suddenly woke up
and found that they had missed some
thing. What on earth could have come
over Jeffries? Every day now they saw
him look more and more as he used to
look-Jeffries the abnormal-the throw
back-the cave man. They asked ques-
tions.
1t was Farmer Burns who enlight-
ened them. why" said the farmer.
you don't know Jeffries 1 know him.
tell you I've seen hundreds of men,
but never one like him before. He's
a man and a half. he is. He's a man
and half of any man I ever saw in
my life. There's no other man like him
anywhere in the world. Do you know.
I've pitied that man. He has worked
since the beginning of April as no man
ever worked before. Morning after
morning Zee been up with him at or
o'clock and out on the road. He
nearly killed me before got his stride.
but 1 held on, to him, although he can
always leave me at the finish 1t was
awful work at first. Time and again
I've thought he's have to give in and
quit or let up But he never did He
stuck to it like a hero.
PICTURES HIM A HERO
Il tell you if the American people
knew what this man has done they's
make him a hero. He's worked him
self down to the bone. And day after
day when he was all through you fell
lows would get up late in the morning
and come out after breakfast to find
Jeffries loafing in the sun. You asked
when he was going to work and he
didn't answer you and then you went
away and said he was loafing and never
would get into condition..
After that the scribes woke up. They