The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-29
LATEST DOPE ON BIG FIGHT
 FRESH FROM RIVAL CAMPS.
Gamblers at Reno Are Cleaning Up the Going to Try and Finish Johnson Before
 the Seventeenth Round
FIGHT NOW ONLY 5 DAYS OFF
(By Max Balthasar.J

(By Max Balthasar.J
 Jeffries' Training Quarters. -Moana Springs. Reno. June 2s.--'I think JefZ ries will rush and clean up in two or three rounds"
 NO, he won't. Hell fight 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
 Why should he wait? Why should he hold back and let the negro pull is to stick out his chin. let Johnson drive his hardest and when the cham pion finds that the wickedest blow ne has in stock cannot down his opponent Johnson will be pie"
 Nothing like that. Johnson is too clever He can stall around for an almost unlimited number of rounds and it will simply resolve itself into question of endurance
 eff Jeffries is there as good as he looks when he works. there will be nothing to it. figure that under the conditions Johnson will last about 30 rounds"
 And so, on ad infinitum.
 Gather burerFof -fans of the rJen-9 ries persuasion, be they mere moulders of their own. opinion or moulders of public opinion, and that's the talk you will hear. Jeffries will win. one round, six rounds, 15 rounds. 20 rounds or 30 rounds. Never has opinion as to the duration of big fight been so varying with the ultimate result so firmly fixed in the minds of the pub lic-
 To those with merely superficial knowledge of what a boxer should do, the work of the big fellows is quite puzzle Jeffries is loafng too. much they think. unmindful of the vast amount of labor he has already done. On the other hand. they think John son is digging in too hard. apparently forgetting that he has not applied him. self until the last two weeks. The many unusual training phases of this contest are enough to put the sternesr conditioning mathematician" in bad
 Jeffries passes the word that he is going to work his head off. Instead he sits around and chats during the morning and winds up the day with little joust with the trout Johnson scheduled to loaf, tears into work like a cclored brother trying to depopulate game from every angle and dopesters will be surprised when the battle ends on Monday.
 Tn many ways the fighters show strange contrasts from day to day. One day Johnson is all speed and con- fidence. The next day he is but half speed and his temper is not good. Jef- fries never loses confidence. In fact he seems to gain in it. But 1t is to the manner in which he puts aside his work which causes great comment.
 For instance. on Monday after Jim had pulled off an early morning box ing stunt it was given out officially by Manager Berger 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 Jeff entirely reverse the program but after switching the "heart sprints'' to the morning he cut out the expected boxing in the afternoon and contented himself with a nap. priv ate talk with Governor Dickerson and a rub-down.e
 It is useless to accept a program or even to guess what the big fellow will do from now until Friday when he is to cut out all work and hurl himself into the nerve-racking "drying-out' process. but he may box. or he may sprint. or he may loaf.
 They are making a book here on what he hopes to do and you can write your own ticket. Tomorrow the real betting will begin. Last night 10 to 61e were the prevailing prices. Some guess it will go to 10 to 2 and others look for to 1. The odds. as made here, are expected to prevail throughout the United States although New England may have to make Johnson the fav- Orite- The principal betting on the rounds was even money that Jeff would not win in 15 rounds.
 There is tip out that Jeff will put forth his best endeavor as a matter of pride, to end the battle within IT rounds.
 Johnson some time ago predicted that he would finish the white man within IS rounds. and just to go him one better Jim wants things to be wound up in his own favor within II rounds.
 Jeffries is sporting a mural decora- ton of the left eye. a memento of Mondays boxing session. The guilty person is not known, each of the four sparring partners claiming the honor, with Berger having a good lead in the list.
 Disuuieting rumors regarding num- Der of minor physical ailments suf- fered by Jeff were circulated about town last night. It is admitted that he had an attack of stomach trouble which accounted for his failure to do much work Tuesday. Jim Corbett ex- perienced the same trouble. attributing it to the water at Moana Springs.
 Another rumor had to do with Jeff ries' right elbow which is said to be inf1ammed and which is in need of an immediate operation. Dr. w. s. Por- fer. of Oakland, who attended to Jeff rses' knee when Jim hurt it at Harbin Springs while training for Munroe. and who recently performed an operation = Mrs. Jeffries, was closeted with