Arizona republican., 1910-11-20
Billy Neai| Tells Of Some Of
The Inside Facts
IT WAS FEAR, NOT DRUGS
Former Fight Manager Pre-
sents Original Views in
Reply to Story Sent Out
by Boilermaker's Press
Agent Anent Big Fight.

AScuI ALoIlC Dig FlgHC.
Followers Of sporting events have
been greatly interested and doubtless
have formed varying opinions concern
ing the stories spread broadcast the
past few weeks. as emenating from
James j. Jeffries, in which the boiler
maker is credited as charging that
he was "doped" before entering the
ring against Jack johnson at Reno
on July 4. In The Republican yes
terday was published a story which
has gained wide circulation in which
Jeffries is credited as saving that he
knew he was doped and that he was
willing to wager $1,000 on the truth
of his statement
AS promised yesterday The Repub-
lican herewith presents an article by
Billy Neail, in which the former man.
ager of Tommy Burns, a sporting
writer of wide renoWn and a close
follower of the fighting game, ex-
presses a few views which are bound
TO create a sensation and which will
doubtless be received by Jeffries with
anything but a satisfied sensation
Here is Neairs version of the dope"
question:
BY BILLY NEAL.
and now we hear another noise
like Jeffries being doped on July 4
last when that big joke was pulled
off at Reno.
Jeffries is getting into print this
time through his friend Beanie Walk
er of The Los Angeles Examiner Jeff
has come out flat-fOoted and says
he knows he was doped. Such rot
and so belated
Jeff. why did you not come out and
say this at the time, were it true? /
don't wonder at you not doing SO, for
ii must have taken lot of time and
courage for you to spring this one
on the poor public that you led along
without a halter" and had them all
eating out of your hand during your
so-ealled year of training. Why a
person had to almost get a permit
from President Taft to see you train
and then il he expressed his opinion
in Johnsons favor. he was thrown
bodily from the training quarters
Funny, isn't it, to have all this happen
in free country like ours.
'To use Billy Delaney's word as
well as my own, | am going to tell you
the name of the dope that was used,
not in the tea cup only, for Jeff had
it with everything he ate or drank. af-
ter the fight was called off in Califor-
MIA, and he knew that it was impos-
sible to fix the fight with Johnson
FEAR-nOthing else-doped him. He
was full of it; given him by one
Arthur Johnson. well-trained athlete
ready for the fight of his life, with
the. words, you have to fight square,
written all over him, Jeff had another
dose given him when Billy Delaney,
his old manager who had piloted him
through so many battles and the man
that Jeff had mistreated, was added
to Johnson's camp. This gave him a
double dose of the same brand.
"Jeffries is far from being game
fighter. He wanted to quit the night
he. fought Bob Fitzsimons in Frisco
July rs. 1902. and would have quit in
the seventh round had it not been
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good old scout. Billy Delaney.
. In several other contests he would
not enter the ring until he thought
the fight was fixed for him to win in
a certain number of rounds. On be-
ing assured that all was well he would
go in and of course being a good man
once in the ring, (his size counting
for much.) he always made good
"Out of the ring we all know he
was not game, for If he were he
never would have WEIGHED out of that
little gambling debt of $1,000 in Ne
vada, the time that Hart and Root
fought there and he was honored by
refereeing il.
Where the public was led astray in
this last contest was by the sport
ing writer's all over the world, holding
Jeffries as the boy farmer from Bur-
bank, California, a wonderfully well
preserved young athlete (Which he
had been some six years previOus)
when, as a matter of fact. he was
nothing but a mountain Of soft. fatty
flesh. man that had dissipated be-
yond all reason; had led the city life
to the limit, around his Los Angeles
Spring street resort. \
When he started to train all he
had to do was to quit his drinking and
the flesh naturally fell off so as to
make him appear fairly well. What
little training he did do was suicide
for him and made him less capable
of carrying out the task that lay be-
fore him. for he was only a shell
the day he entered the ring.
Anyone who knows anything about
the condition of an athlete knows that
Jeff could not come back. There
were many who knew this. but wrote
and here is where the peO-
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