The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-29
PROPER TRAINING
is SADLY LACKING.
N either Jeffries nor
johnson Is Handled
Correctly.
BOTH ARE SHY
OF HARD WORK
Mike Murphy Compares Their
Conditioning Routine With
What Football Player
Would Be Put Through.
Each Man Needs
Master Driver.
BY MIKE MURPHY,
DfIcinl Trainer of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA.

Copyright by the Philadelphia North
American and The Times-Dispatch.)
Reno. June 2s.-With the big clash
only six days off. johnson and Jetfries
took 1t comparatively easy to-day.
Jeffries had planned to do lot of
hard boxing this morning, and in the
expectation Of seeing the workout, a
host of enthusiasts cut short their
sleep, and lined up at the camp Of
and ready. but when he saw the crowd
he absolutely declined TO put ON
glove.
Jerries is man Of moods; he does
anything he takes into his head, and
doesn't care what any one thinks.
] wonder that under the circum-
stances. since he so much dislikes TO
do his work in front of a crowd, that
his handlers picked camp for him SO
near the scene of battle.
II surprised and disappointed me to
see Jetf pass up his work to-day. for
he is getting SO close to the finish that
| cannot understand how he would be
wiling to let UP. He did DO little
road work. but II was nothing like as
hard as the kind of preparation we
give college football players.
The white man is undoubtedly IN
good shape, but truthfully think he
mas not boxed enough Jumping rope.
shadow boxing. punching the bag and
the use Of chest weights are all right.
but they do not compare for actual
benefit with hard boxing bouts where
the punching Is real and where man
has q chance to test his actual con-
dition under fire. have told Jeftries
th.s. and so have many of his other
friends. but one might as we'll try TO
move a mountain as change this fell
lows opinions.
Jehrtes needs master: so does
Johnson jeiirfes' has shown amazing
ability to recuperate after six years.
retirement and johnson deserves cred
1t for being willing to box at any
old time. and against the strongest
and roughest young fellows who can
be found, but neither OF them have
worked as hard as they should.
Long ago, when used to work men
on the road. l went along to make
sure that they did 1t right. These
men Jeffries and Johnson. in their
road work. take along their trainers.
some of them men we'll advanced in
years, and yet SO easy is the pace that
the veterans are able to keep up with
the fighters and finish strong. This
running ought to be more strenous
They gave out to-day that Jeffries did
eight miles. and yet he was only out
hfty minutes. and his companion came
out in the best of shape. Why four
miles would put most of these train
ers out of commission.
II l were to give these big huskies
such workout as / have given many
a football player there would be
howl all over the land.
Any of these good lads in the big
universities do more training in a
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month. No one ever saw johnson and
Jeftries work till they were gasping
for breath, trying to get their wits to-
gether, hardly able to understand
what the cuss of a coach was telling
them. and being so weak they could
hardly stand.
l told Jeffries and his trainers that
o little more violence in the work
would be good thing, and they told
me that it was not required.
They may be right, but there is one
fact to be remembered. We train a
football player for sheer grit and abil-
ity to Withstand terrific and main
tained ordeal, one in which he does
not get one minutes rest in every four
as the fighters do.
And we succeed. Take a football
player. Watch the pounding and
smashing he gets, and see him bleed
ing, cut and tired, but still jumping In
for more. think little more or
that kind Of spirit in the training of
lighters would bring much greater
assurance Of victory.
In his preparation the football play
er takes some awful clouts. Jefrries
and johnson haven't mark to show
for the boxing they have done. jeff
ries has some clever men around him,
but not one with enough hitting abil :
ity to hurt him.
johnson has two good men in Kauff-
man and Cotton, but In his bouts with
them the champion is always taking
1t easy, a thing he will not be able
to do with Jeffries, He Just stands
easy and let's them hit him, depend :
ing on those wonderful arms OF his
to keep them off. thing he will not
care to do with Jeffries. 1t will take
more than his guarding arms to save
him from the body smashes OF the
white man.
Moreover in this boxing neither
man is under a strain. In the bout
they will be, and this in itself Is the
most firing Of all things on the wind.
Each man has trained himself Yet,
what both have lacked has been a
strong man to rout them out Of bed
when he willed, and curse and force
them into the kind OF work planned
out by the master mind, the expert.
Such a trainer, when Jeffries wanted
to lay off, would compel him to go
through the hardest days training he
ever did, Just as matter Of disci-
pline. He would drive Jeffries till he
could hardly stand, hardly eat, and
have him punched In the ring till he
was sick ofit. Every day 1t would be
real battle.
There are those who say that Jeff
ries and Johnson could not stand this,
but thousands of boys do it every fall,
md come out of it great athletes.
don't think that either Jeffries or
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