The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
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Jeffries Has Superior Record to That of Johnson
HAS WON SEVEN BOUTS
Jack Johnson Has Not Won As Many Battles AS Jim Jcffrics Nor Has He Fought Men of Rela-
 tive Ability
By C. E. VAN LOAN

New York, February 20.-(Special)- )- Just by way of pouring another libation of gasoline on the burning question of the day in order to light up the subject of doping the coming winner of the heavy weight battle, let 1t be said to begin with that dope is useless and the man who complies 1t wastes his time. It Is inter- esting; that is the best and the worst which can be said about it and with this thought firmly clinched in the mind we proceed, as follows to-wit:
 It is no use, when doping two figures about to meet In the ring, to waste time figuring on men who have been com mon opponents. In figuring Jeffries as compared with Johnson there is an ex- cellent line on Jeffries, the beginner, for when a beginner he fought some of the men who afterward fought Johnson when Johnson was every bit as good as he is now, if not better.
 We can easily dope the Jeffries who used to be with Johnson who is today but no man in the world can give 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 a total stranger and the one thing which stands out. by d comparison of mutual records Is that upon the dope" the Jeff who was fight ing ten years ago would have whaled the supreme stuffing out of all the Johnsons that ever lived. There can be no doubt about this, the comparison makes it loom up like the Metropolitan Tower on fire. Each man had eight fights with common antagonists, and in every single case the advantage lies with the white man.
 Going book to the first common an- tagonist, we light upon the meek and lowly mulatto. gent, Henry Griffin, other wise and better known as Hank or ''Rameses ILL" They called him Rameses 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 battler. Yes indeed. He was experienced; he was remarkably game and he only ran once in his life, and that was from champion of the world, and he ran because he wanted to stay four rounds and not because he was afraid.
 About the lime that Henry Rameses 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 San Speedy on one of the Lacy tank building gangs.
 The East Side, where this big kid lived, was willing to go broke that it had local heavyweight champion, 1925 pounds and all neat as they used to state with pride Some of the local fight fans grew interested and the youngster was invited to work in a gymnasium and give people a line on him. He stripped so much like bear that a private bat tie was arranged and Henry Ram Griffin was selected as the old trial horse. They knew that Ram would get him if any body in town could do the trick. Jeff told me about that fight when he was last in New, York. It was fine de- scription of a battle.
 'I knocked Hank out in fourteen rounds. maybe fifteen,'' 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 man who saw that fight told me that Jeff didn't lay a glove on the crafty old campaigner until he landed the one punch that stopped the fight, and when 1t did go over-good night! Several years later, when Jeff was the champion of the world, he appeared in a four-round exhibition with Griffin at Hazards Pa vilion which cannot be considered as 9