The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
JIM JEFFR|ES IS
 BACK ON THE FARM
Fighter Is Training By Doing
 Real Farm Work
HE FEEDS THE CALVES
Notices Even If He Is Hidden Away. Jack Johnson Is Not Heard
 From Lately
By w. w. NAUGHTON

San Francesca, March 13.-(special) )-Jins Jeffries is beck on his broad acres at | Burbank, and a record of the things he does in day reads like a leaf from the | life of Joshua Whitcomb.
 From the way Jim attends to the chores one might think that the mortgage on the farm was growing bigger, and that it las become necessary to discharge the hired man. But that's not the way of 1t | al all It's merely case of combining business and enjoyment. for Jim likes 10 potter around where there are calves and chickens and the likes. Moreover. il comes under the head of light training.
 Have you noticed the way the papers keep their readers informed as to Jeff ries every movement? From the time he cracks the kindling for the breakfast fire until he winds the kitchen clock at night no act of the big fellow is over looked, and every line of it is read with interest.
 ..s strange part of it all is that Jeff rie s-that is the renovated Jeffries-has conc nothing so far to deserve this solici- tude. Two years ago Jim might have cut and attacked 1000 cords of blue gum or pitched 100000 bales of alfalfa, and it would not have gone into the papers. To be still more brutally frank, he might have toured and toured and failed to rake in anything like per cent of the wealth he is credited with amassing by ris theatrical operations since he returned from Carlsbad. He seems to enjoy the uI earned increment, whatever that is. His present importance and money-making capacity Is based entirely on what John son did to that white man Burns ip Aur stralia. and what Jeffries promises to do to Johnson by way of reprisal next suly.
 And where is Johnson all this time? There is so little mention of him that it might be supposed that Jefries entry for the championship stakes was the only one received up to date.
 If the sporting correspondent played fair we would be regaled with daily bule- tins as to the number of times Johnson CT anked his buzz wagon and brushed his gealslSn overcoat. For all we hear of the fellow who is to face Jeffries he might be in Africa.
 Come to think of it, there was some
 
 then he was placed in an unpleasant light. It was said he worked his famous up- percut on another colored man who re- minded him Of the time when he was glad to blow the foam from a bucket Of beer.
 There is a minority report to the effect that Johnson may have to go to jail for the offense and there are sugges- tions, even now, that the promoters had better provide an understudy for little Arthur in case he is not able to keep his engagement with Big Jira.
 Let us hope it will not prove as des- perate as that for as supposedly hu- morcus friend remarked, "a championship fight without Johnson would be like the play of Hamlet with Othelo left out"
 They say it Is very hard for an old dog to learn new tricks and on the same priI ciples 1t is hard for a defeated cham rion 10 adapt himself to the new order of thirgs Vixen Battling Nelson was ham nered into Jeily by young Wolgast there was lot of sympathy for the Dane, but at that there was no surmounting the fact that the Battler had boen rendered eligi- ble for membership in the give-me-an- Cther-chance club
 Nelson himself seemed to look at it that way and before he left for Chicago he gave out that as a stepping stone to his
 
 match with that other Durable Dane, Cyclone Thompson Robinson, Nelsons manager. told the writer on the evening of his departure that they had accepted te rms from Promoter Louis Blot of San Fra Dcsco. the only stipulation being that Blot should trade dates with some other fight handler so as to be able to put NeLon and Thompson in the ring in April. If Nelson IS quoted correctly he stated some days ago in Chicago that the new fight trust of San Francisco had com hined against him and that only one of them had made a bid for the Nelson was left open to bids, which Is not the was left open to bids. wrich is not the case.
 Here is the story as it was told to me: Ee fore Nelson fought Wolgast he signed up to box Thompson at a later date and this match was to be left open to the highest bidder. The event an at tract,on depended. of course. on Nelson's success with Wolgast. In other words. if Nelson lost with Wolgast there was nothing further. so far as Nelson was concerned, to lid on, and the local match abers insist that Nelson understood it that way.