The Cairo bulletin., 1910-06-28


after the fight claimed he had
knocked Jeff down AS matter Of
fact the big man slipped and fell;
but Munroe boasted of his alleged
triumph until Jeff's anger was aroused
and another fight arranged. They met
in San Francisco and Munroe went
down and out in the second round.
In his preparation for his fight with
Johnson. Jeffries has done the hardest
training work he was ever known to
undergo. His methods have been pc
culiarly his own as rule. He went
in for bear shooting, fishing, noun
tain climbing and the like, and his
trainers had little to say about what
he did.
In preparing for Johnson however,
the retired champion has left no pat
Of his training go uncared for. He
would not agree to the match until
assured by try-out work and the opR'
ions of physicians that he was physie-
ally able to get into good condition,
Once assured Of that. he took up his
quarters in the Santa Cruz mountains
sixty miles south of San Francisco,
and drilled as he never drilled before,
In his camp Jim Corbett, volunteer
aid, reigned supreme. jeff believed
Jim was wise man on matters con-
nected with care of the body, and he
heeded the former champions words.
Joe Choynski was there also. and Bob
Armstrong. All three of them were
victims of Jeff's handiwork in times
past, but they worked hard to prepare
him for his last great battle. Among
unrecorded battles Is the
defeat via knockout OF Jack Johnson
1t was during three-round fight at
in 1892. Farmer Burns was
another of the training squad. He Is
a wrestler of considerable repute, and
not a day of training passed but JEFF
ries engaged him in a struggling,
hauling, netting match
Eight years ago, when Johnson be-
gan to loom on the pugilistic horizon,
ne urged his managers to make every
effort to arrange for a fight with JEFF
ries. "Jeffries can't touch me- was
his boast even in those days, and he
fretted continually over the fact that
until he acquired a reputation his
for a championship battle
we're but as gauzy as the tail of Hal
ey's comet. He says he believed then
rs confidently in his ability to achieve
he title as he did six years later,
when at last his opportunity to battle
or the supreme prize was realized.
1T was not my fights themselves,
)ut my fight to get those fights that
proved the hardest part of the
Johnson told the Associ- |
tied Press in recounting his diff
les in reaching the pinnacle of his
1T was my color. They
old me to get rep; but how was |
0 get rep without meeting fighters |
# class? But | made them fight me,
Just kept plugging along. swapping !
p what chances to fight could grab.
Until by-and-by the top-notchers saw
hat sooner or later they'd have to
AXE me on. AS soon as | had shown
What could do, the fight public
most of the fans, anyway-took sides
With me and that helped whole lot"
Johnson asserts that he has never |
'een apprehensive of possible defeat
n any contest he has engaged in. |
Ione Of them, he declares, had any
errors for him.
His four most important battles
AVE been fought within the last year
nd half dating from his defeat of
Tommy Burns in Australia, December
'6, 1908 Having wrested the cham.
,ionship from Burns, he determined
o meet and defend his title against
III comers. His fights with Philadel-
lhia Jack O'Brien. AL Kaufman and
Stanley Ketchel followed in rapid sue.
,ession.