The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-03
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Of COMING FIGHT
Most Unconcerned Man Stands
the Best Chance to Win
Big Mill

OA1oHuAuS UeyOuu Tue lines usually
bounding interest in q championship
fight. the Jeffries-Johnson battle has
already been made the deep study of
eager scientists. Behind the test Of
racial power is a problem for the OBJ
servation Of the most learned. COL
lege professors Of anatomy have seen
the fighters stripped for gymnasium
tests. followers Of the. rival camps
have had their say, each expression
OF opinion what an employer would
expect from loyal workman, but the
psychologist now treads into publicity.
An eminent naturalist recently de-
clared that two tigers thrust suddenly
into the same cage snarl before they
fight. 1t often happens that one Of
the animals realizes that its growl is
not deep rooted. Then he COWS and
quits. But tigers do not have the hu-
man pleasure Of having even the
losers end Of a 100000 purse or the
half interest in the pictures" that is
making the Jeffries-Johnson bout the
greatest financial splurge in prize
ring history. The fighting heart is
the issue. Even animals have 1t.
On battlefields the courage of the
fighter has been tested and found un-
faltering. When negro troops made
a gallant stand at San Juan hill they
were ofiicered by white men whom
they had faith in. On July 4, when
johnson faces Jeffries in the ring, the
negro champion will not be surround
ed by we'll wishes. 1.-THE hope of the
white race" as Jeffries has been term
ed, will have his own power as an
asset and will be able to display it
under conditions favorable to him.
Few Of the thousands who have
trooped behind Jeffries, applauded
him or shaken his hand, know Jeffries
the man. An inclination to shrink
from publicity. which Jeffries has
often displayed Is as near surliness
o. It is modesty. He Is not an enter
tanning conversationalist. All his elo-
quence is in his fists. Most of the
notable ring successes have been
gained by overpowering strength.
Nothing bores Jeffries more than
the attentions Of fight fans who try
to get the big Californian to talk shop.
Jeffries is not fighter who loves to
battle. He has confessed that he
would never have attempted to sue
coed in the ring II he could have been
convinced that there was as much
money to be gained in any other line
that was open to him.
As schoolboy Jeffries seldom en-
gagged In fisticuffs. A New York bust
ness man who knew Jeffries in his
early days In Ohio and California said
that he might have picked Jeffries for
. piano mover. but never for fighter.
A Demon When Aroused.
But aroused! There is another JEFF
fries. When he shifts uneasily in a
chair. or grits his teeth. he is either
about to leave the room or "saart
something" He usually leaves
claim Of patriotic duty. assurances Of
fortune. the appeals Of closest
friends were necessary to- bring JEFF
fries, the stole, before the public again
as fighter. Then he wanted to train
to see whether he would "be right"
Satisfying himself on this point, he
plunged into the preliminary work.
accepting every chance that added to
his bank account. and the publicity
end of the coming champion contest.
Jeffries has not the mental alertness
Of Corbett or Mccoy, little Of the kIna
Of fighting spirit that a rough and
ready fellow like Battling Nelson has.