The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-03
Jeffries Friends are Grow
ing Uneasy.
TRAINING IS NOT STRENUOUS
Only Has Beens Face The
Big Fighter.
The Training Camp Has Come to he
Known as "Thc Old Mans Home"
JEFF Is not Required To Fight n
Real Pugillst.

San Francisco, May 3.-There is
something rotten--not in Denmark
but in Jeffrles training camp. Despite
all the buli reports that have been
sent as to the splendid condition Of
the champion and the strenuousness
of the training methods, 1t has be-
come an open secret that sincere
admirers of Jeffries, and men anxious
to back the champion in his July
fourth fight, are holding their money.
Men who know the fighting game
and are unprejudiced i'm their view
point state that some radical changes
are going to be necessary in Jeffries'
camp and training methods II the
big fellow is to have any chance with
Johnson.
The Jeffries camp at Rowardennan
has been dubbed "'The Old Mans
Home" by reason of the number OF
has-been fighters who are engaged
I'm the task of rounding Jeffries into
form.
The dissatisfaction among Jeffries'
friends eliminated with the arrival
of Joe ChoynsR ana the introduction
OF his methods which are branded
as plain bunk" a number of sport
ing writer's have been touting Choy-
nski as wonder, who "plans stiff
daily fight with his charge" Men
in the camp who have had an OPP
portunity to see things on the In
side declare that Choynski can give
Jeffries just about as stif work.
out as bantam champion would.
They say that Choynski, whose fight
ing days ended years ago. can not
possibly be of any value to Jeffrles
and that his stomach is in such con-
dition as to make him joke as
boxer.
number of eastern papers have
devoted q great deal of space to BOD
Armstrong. "Jeffries' great sparriig
partner who is supplying the real
active mixing which the champion
needs" Armstrong Is also joke as
a fighter and is so much afraid OF
Jeffries' wallops that he Is valuable
for little except for making pace In
a sprint race. But he Is n very good
rubber. The talk of Berger's value
to the champion as n sparrlng part
rer causes chose who know Sammy
to smile. Berger is so fat and out
Of condition that references to him
and his ability are ludicrous
Fighting men about San Francisco
have offered to wager good odds they
can pick up dozen young fellows
who are fighting in semi-fnals and
nreliminaries about this city who can
whip anyone of Jeffries' training
partners.
The truth is that there Is not a
strong young fellow about Jehries
training camp who can give the big
fellow n gruelling bout i'm training
The men who are really anxious to
see Jeffries win and who want to
bet their money on the champion,
are almost praying that Jim Corbett
will soon take charge of things. AL
though "Gentleman Jim" Is "has-
been" himself. he does know some
thing about conditioning p fighter
and he could give Jeffries a better
fight than all the other trainers COM
hined.
If Jeffries gets into condition, there
must be changes. Jeffries never was
''bear' for work, and he needs
some one to spur him on. He Is not
MS own 'DobS, llO lHulttt WHAT ihaS
be said, and Is shy the initiative that
made Jim Corbett and Jack O'Brien
great fighting men. Billy Delaney
could handle Jeffries, and as long as
he was at the helm, Jim was the
fighting wonder of the age.
To an outsider, the training camp
looks like a midway in county fair,
run to make money and not to make
Jeffries a champion. They charge
for everything. Berger, the "boy
manager" has the concessions. He
even sells exclusive news about the
training. Jeffries stands for this be-
cause ne hates being interviewed and
photographed. He leaves everything
tc Berger, who takes advantage OF II
| to the limit.
Fans are hoping-even praying
| that Jeffries will "come to-" and go
into real training. "Art, literature
and music" never helped a man swing
reproducing right hook to the
jaw, even though Choynskl has in
troduced such novel training meth
| ods.
Jeffrles must heave to and &c
about on another tack-and quickly
II he wants to keep his word and
Kill Jack Johnson on the fourth oi
| July"