Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16

others that amounted to knockouts be-
cause the fights were stopped to save
his opponents from unnecessary punish
ment, but which fights are not credited
as knockouts. In seven years Johnson
has won thirteen fights by the knock
out route, fighting forty-six times and
meeting men of inferior class to those
whom Jeffries fought.
Admittedly, Jeffries has the punch
that johnson never has shown himself
to possess. He has a stone heart that
knows no fear, while Johnson always
has been accused of cowardiCe under
punishment. johnson is not, and prob
ably never will be, as clever as Cor
bett, while Jeffries OutbOxed Corbett in
their last fight, showing himself en-
titled to be classed as a clever boxer, at
least. These are important factors in
a fight, and 1 am unwilling to believe
that six years out of the ring, if the
fighter has taken ordinarily good care
of his health, can overcome such great
Advantages as Jeffries possessed in
comparison with Johnson at the time Of
retirement. He knocked out every
fighter who faced him in the last five
years he was in the ring, and Jim Cor
bett is the only one who went as far
as ten rounds with him in that period
Also, no fighter whom he ever knocked
out has been in the running since, be-
ing so terribly punished that they were
unfit for ring service afterWard.
johnson Also Dissipates
Upon the subject of dissipation there
is little of comfort TO say for Johnson.
The world knows that he always dis
sipated and does yet. Jeffries never
went to eXcesses in what little drinking
he did, and Johnson has kept up a
steady gait along the primrose all his
life. For more than a year Jeffries has
not touched anything in the form Of
drink nor has he indulged himself in
the cigarette that so many persons are
bowling about. For more than a year
he has been free from the slightest bit
Of what might be termed dissipation,
and he Is as strong and healthy today
as ever in his life.
Jeffries has proved upon various Oc-
casions that he is almost insensible to
pain and can take punishment that
would kill an ordinary man. Johnson
has been fortunate in that he never has
had to take much punishment, but he
always has quit when forced to fight a
man who could or did hurt him. He
never has whipped any man of great
class who was his equal in weight or
height, while Jeffries always fought the
biggest men in the business, and men
like Ruhlih, F'itzsimmons, Corbett,
Munroe Hank Griffin, Sharkey, God
dard, Choynski and Peter Jackson were
neither liliputians nor were they quit
ters or fighters of inferior class.
If there is anything that Johnson has
done at any time in the ring that would
give him a chance to whip Jeffries
when the big fellow is in half shape 1
am unable to find it. If he classes with
those men of the ring whom Jeffries
has beaten insensible to the mat / am
no judge of fighting class. If Denver
Ed Martin and Hank Griffin class with
them and thereby enable Johnson to
compare favorably with Jeffries, 1 am
all wrong. When a fighter of the class
| of Hank Griffin, who twice fought
Johnson to draw decision, can show
up Johnson, what chance has he to
whip a fighter Of the great class of
Jeffries? 1 answer none and believe
the fight will be ended inside of six
| rounds, with Jeffries standing as the
unbeaten champion Of the world.