The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-13
From Golfers Weekly.

YIN JEFFRIES looks as IL he were
created to be the gardener of yell
~ lowstone Park or the ferryman oi
tae Grand Canyon of the Colorado. he
e tho man created to associate with the
bears, the one built to slap grizzly OH
the side of the chops and make MIN get
ont of the honey. Some one, realizing
his great physical strength, got hold Oh
Jeffries had taught him to box, though
after he learned and became the most
scientific of all the big fighters the world
has known, still he vas simply the pear
and the deer hunter of the mountains
of California, fitting in every particular
the scenery and the climate. Never
fighter simply the gardener OF the
Rockies. trained to handle his fists.
How little we, the average men, actu-
ally know about our powers OF enour'
ance. II our clothes fit and we are weti'
we saunter out in the morning TO our
daily toll rather chesty. We feel musce-
! lar we think of a Roman gladiator as
we catch our walk by the reflected image
IN the show windows. We are sure we
should De SO1He pumpkins III J."
We don't yell it to anybody for manners
sake, but we feel We ought to.
Some six or seven years ago l was at
Hardin Springs, CAL It's wonderful
place in real mountains. not like the ones
we see at the sportmens show. James
J Jefries was there. training for his
fight with Rubin. Jeffries, true to his
lines and angles and shadows, looked
| like the scenery back of him at Hardin
Springs 1t was the one landscape
have ever seen that teamed up with
| him. II you overthrow Jeffries' head, the
scenery backed up third base, and IL you
overthrow the scenery, Jeffries was there.
He is naturally great hunter, and fire.
ouently used to shoulder his rifle and tie
| a frying pan to his belt and put paper
| of salt in his vest pocket and start on
with careless swing like some huge
grizzly off to where the peaks were the
highest Sometimes he would not get
be- elk till the next day, and once it ives
the day after. But that did not disturb
his trainers; they were always glad to
have him stay away a day or two, so
they could heal up
| One day as Jeffries was being stripped
of his perspiration- clothes on his
return from a Chamber out of canyon
| ne said to me: You are pretty healthy
looking specimen of the outdoors; now
llong do you think you could fight right
now at top speed?'
.Oh, 1 don't know" ! replied. Pos
sjbly I'm out of condition. Maybe not
over three or four rounds
| All this time troiners were pulling
sticky hot clothes off from the man OF
the mountains. as you would strip ny
ne per from a chair. And as they pulled
land hauled at the clothes nearest his
skin. he called to his brother Jack to
hiring the boxing gloves with the heavy
padding on the wrist. and asked me to
strip. to get clear my decks in other
words to get "rossurp' on my feet He
said he wanted me to put on the gloves
land fight him as hard as l could from
the word time that he would hold his
hands behind his back, SO l could not
hurt myself on his elbows, and make
| absolutely no offensive movement except
Eto rush me with his features and should
crs from the call of time
Well, now ] felt a pretty able PROPOSE
ton myself while stood waiting for
lilly Delaney to call 'time." l was six
feet one and half inches. and weighed
about 900 pounds but l will confess that
the idea of hauling off and smashing into
the face of a friend with his arms be-
hind him was distasteful, SO at the call
of time, although | slammed In. friend
ship held me back until Jeffries yelled
Ito me to cut loose. Using all my strength
and every muscle available to land, il
seemed to me l was a living hurricane
for while. and remember wondered
how Jim was going to stand It, shud'
dered at the thought of the blood thai
would flow from his unguarded nose, bu
always Jim's big dark face was crowdina
me of almost into the canyon below
; soon / was jabbins with both hands
then uNd one hand, resting the other
and there seemed fully minute between
my blows.
Finally there were no blows. Twas ex
huusted. and the watch showed that