The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-02
SPORTS
SIX VICTORIES
FOR JEfFRIfS

when doping two fighters about 70
meet in the ring, to waste time fig
uring on men who have not been
common opponents. In figuring jeff
rles as compared with Johnson thore
Is an excellent Inc on Jetfries, the
beginner. for when a beginner he
fought some OF the men who after
ward fought Johnson. when Johnson
was every bit as good as he is now.
II not better.
We can easily dope the Jcffries who
used TO be with the Johnson who Is
today but no man In the world can
| give a line on what the present Jim
| Jeffries may do when he steps Into
the ring next Fourth OF July. He may
be the old jeff; and again he may be
q total stranger and the one thing
which stands out, by q comparison Of
mutual records. Is that upon the
dope" the jeff who was fighting
ten years ago would have whaled the
supreme stuffing out OF all the John
sons that ever lived. There can be no
doubt about this, the comparison
makes it loom up like the Metropol-
itan tower on fire. Each man had
| eight fights With common antagonists
and in every single case the adyan-
tage lies with the white man.
| Going back 10 the first common an
tngonist, we light upon the meek and
| lowly mulatto gent. Henry Griffin,
| otherwise and better known as Hank
OF 'Rameses III" They called him
Ramesses because he looked about as
old as Ram and probably he was
He was fighting before the civil war,
according to rumor, and he had three
sons In the Soldiers home, but for all
that Henry Rameses was some bat
tier; he was remarkably game and
he only ran once in his life. and that
was from a champion OF the world.
and he ran because he wanted TO
stay four rounds. and not because ne
was afraid
| About the time that Henry Ra-
meses Griffin was at his best and
was fighting just as often as he could
get anyone to meet him in the ring.
Los Angeles sports began to talk
about the big kid who worked with
Sam Speedy on one of the Lacy tank
building gangs.
The East Side. where the big kid
lived, was willing 10 go broke that
IL had a local heavyweight champion,
'225 pounds and all meat as they
used to state with pride. Some Of
the local fight fans grew interest
ed and the youngster was invited TO
work in gymnasium and give people
a line on him He stripped so much
like bear that a private battle was
| arranged and Henry Ram Griffin was
selected as the old trial horse They
| knew that Ram would get him II any
body In the town could do tho trick
jeff told me about that fight when
he was last In New York 1t vas
fine description OF 4 battle
Il knocked Hank out In IA rounds,
! maybe Is" was the way Jeff told It.
! He didn't say anything about the
fearful lacing old Rameses handed
him before the punch came over, but
a man who saw the fight told me
that jeff didn't lay a glove on the
! crafty old caJnpalgner until he land.
ed the one punch that stopped the
fight, and when it did so over-Good
night Several years later, when JEFF
vas the champion OF the world. he
! appeared in a four-round exhibition"
with Griffin at Hazards pavilion
which cannot be considered as a fight.
because Jeff wasn't trying and Ra-
meses was foot racing
Here's where we get a line. and
the most valuable one OF all, on the
respective merits of the men when
Soth were young and at the top oil
! their physical strength
In the first real fight of his life
Jeff. an absolute novice, who scarce
ly knew a hook from swing, beat
Griffin by a knockout. whipping 4
seasoned campaigner and winning on
grit alone, That WAS in 1896
Six years later, when Hank was
far on the down grade, he fought
Jack Johnson twice. 10 and 20 rounds,
aud they stand on record as draws
Hank had age and physical strength
against him. willingness 10 stand up
and fight Ho smashed that long vel.
low right into Johnson's face a few
times and that held Jack at a re-
specttul distance. as a good healthy
punch has always done One point,
and A big one, in Jeffs favor.
Jcffs fight WAS with another old.
timer. Choynski, and everybody knows
that Joe Choyneld was tough nut.
Choynskl still holds the one draw with
Jeftries which has never been re-
versed, only because Jeff's speedy
development into a champion made
Cboynskl no match for him. John
ston's fight with Choynski resulted in
the Knockout OF the negro. Ono more
point for Jeffrles
Mexican Pete Everett was the next
common antagonist. He quit like a
sheep In the snow after two rounds
and hall with Jeifreis. Everett
stayed 20 rounds with Johnson. An.
other for Jeff.
On the other fighters. which each
man, met there is no real line. John
eon fought Fitzsimmous. but II wasn't
the same Fitz twice whipped by Jeff.
rles. Both men fought Joe Kennedy
Johnson fought him twice and twice
knocked him out, in four rounds each
time JEFF did the trick In two
rounds. Both men fought Munroe, but
Munroe cannot be figured, for John
son was doing business" and had
agreed to allow the miner TO stay
the limit
Here is a sort Of a summary: The
men fought eight battles with six
common antagonists Everett
Kennedy, Munroe. F1tzsImmons and
Choynski.
OF Johnson's eight battles he won
two by knockouts. ono vas stopped
O prevent knockout. he won one
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