The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-17
JEFF'S VICTORIES
Lost IN DEFEAT
FIckIe Public Forces Him to
Fight, Then SCOTS at
Efforts.
NOT so WITH OTHERS
YET ALL LOST BECAUSE THEY
HAD GONE BACK.
NOT so WITH OTHERS
BY W. w. NAUGHTON


san Francisco. July 16.-From
being the hope of the white race. Jim
Jeffrics has become the jibc OF the
white race, and i for one do not con-
slider ne is deserving Of the appro-
brium that is being heaDcd upon MIN.
His critics arc flaying MIN mcrcilcss-
IS. and poor jim must feel as Wolsey
felt when ne said vain pump and
glory of the world. 1 hate ye; 1 feel
my heart now opened"
No one seems to remem Der the
I tremendous pressure that was
brought 10 bear on Jefrries To cct him
TO come forth from the protecting
shadows OF domestic life and bear the
brunt of the ring game again. 1 re-
collect the circumstance distinctly.
because / was i'm the foremost Of the
newspaper pack that bounded Jim
into signing with Johnson For this
reason alone, II for no other. / do not
| feel like rebuhng him for failing TO
accomplish what he was forced to at
tempt.
Some Of the accusations made
against Jcffries and some OF the mo-
tives attributed TO him I'm connection
with the recent fiascO. sound like the
mOUthings OF imbecilcs. For one
thing. the report that Jcffries and
those around him knew all along that
the big fellow was doomed to defeat
and that they kept the knowledge
from a waiting public
one incident alone is sufficient to
show that Of the two heavyweights
Jeffries was not the first to weaken.
This was when three days before the
fight Johnson. through Tex Richards.
proposed an equal split Of the purse
| instead Of the "seventy-five and tweu-
ty-five". called for by the articles
Jeffries' reply 20 the johnson propo-
sition would not look well i'm print. a
day later johnson suggested 60 per
cent and 40 per cent and after keep
ing the negro guessing a while. JEFF
fries consented.
Was a Bad Day
Many weeks ago. when Jeffries was
still i'm training at ROWardenuan the
writer told that Jeffries had his good
days and bad days. and remarked
that h the Fourth OF July happened
To be bad day, there would be trou-
! bic in store for Jeffries Well the
/ Fourth was one of his bad days. all
I right. In this connection I might say
that if the contest had taken place
before Joffries broke camp at Row
ardcnnan he would undoubtedly have
given "A better account of himself. but
/ do not believe that there was day
since the articles were signed on
which Jeffries could have defeated
I Johnson.
! In view of what Jeffries has accom-
I plishcd in the past, the world Of
sport can afford to be kinder TO him
| than il is at present Even with all
: the rCDrOach that came to him. and is
still coming. eliminated. Jeffries' pun
/ ishment for a poor showing is terrible
( TO contemplate.
Jeffries. the conqueror OF Corbett
I Fitzsimmons Peter jackson. Tom
/ Srakey. Gus Rubin and Jack Munroe.
lis forgotten. only the Jeffries who
made such a miserable fight with
Jack Johnson will be remembered.
! At least. that o. the present outlook
There are always reactions in cases OF
/ this kind. and il may be before a year
! passes Jim's exit from the game will
be kindly blurred over. and the per
| formances Of his earlier career re-
membered. 1t is so with John L. Sui
Ivan. Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsim-
mons. and Jeffries surely is entitled TO
as much consideration as the cham
pions who preceded him.
.An Below Par.
BY the way, have you noticed that
/ the heavyweight champion OF the
4 world is always on the down grade
physically when he is defeated?
Wasn't il the case when Sullivan
lost TO Corbett. aud again when Cor
bett lost TO F'itzsimmons at Carson?
Didn't Fitzsimmons have "A PRESENT.
ment of defeat when he insisted on
the lions share Of the purse IN his
fight with Jeffries on Coney Island?
Wasn't the Jeffries that johnson de-
feated a mere wrath of the formida-