The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-01-28

hustler on train to that Of one OF the
leading theatrical managers Of the day.
using AS n stepping stone to fame and
fortune the managerial berth of two
worlds heavy weight champions, has
spoken and given an opinion on the
outcome of the meeting next Fourth OF
July between Jim Jeffries and Jack
Johnson. Physical culture experts,
fight managers and everybody almost
whose names appeared In sporting
page at one time or another have had
their little say but none were so lucid
in their deductions as il Brady He
Is the one who knows n fighter from
his shoe laCes to the last hair on his
head. He saw Jim Jefrics when the
latter was only a sparring partner
to Jim COrbctt and was the first to
pick the big fellow out as a coming
champion But anyway here is what
BILLY says of the two men:
THE talk about jeff not being able
to come back and get into shape to
fight Jack Johnson is ridiculous. jeff
has a better chance to come back
than Corbett did, and the latter surely
came back when he travelled twenty
three rounds with Jeffries at Coney
Island three years after he was knock
ed stiff by Fit2 at Carson City.
Eighteen months before Corbett
met JeifricS he was pronounced all
in by the shrewdest judges of the
fistiC game in New York Corbett had
been running thirst parlor in the
tenderloin for several years and going
all the gaits. Not even his best
friends thought he could come back
but he gave jeff the fight of his life.
Now, if Corbett could get into con.
dition there is no reason in the world
why Jeffries, who never dissipated
much, can't regain physical perfection.
He's now at the age of man i'm the
prime of life and look for him to en-.
ter the ring with Johnson better than
he ever was. But he will have to be
better than ever to beat Johnson. The
big negro is the greatest fighter JEFF
fries ever faced. have seen johnson
fight, and take it from me that he's
there with everything. He has the
best left hand of any big fellow the
ring ever produced.
Don't let them gull you with the
stuff about the negro having climbed
to the front at the expense of little
men. The little men he beat are pretty
shifty fighters think Stanley Ketch-
ell could have whipped Tom Sharkey
in his best days and you know that
Sharkey went twenty-five rounds with
Jeffries and gave the big fellow about
all he could attend to.
johnson is a better man than Peter
Jackson ever was, and the big Austral-
ian black had them all buffaloed in
his dav. You also hear a lot of talk
about jeff having gained the cham
pionship at the expense of the great
est crop of heavy weights the ring
ever saw. Fitz, Corbett and Sharkey
are pronounced superior men to Burns,
Ketchel Lang and Fitz Johnson defeat
ed. This kind of talk don't appeal to
me. | can't see any logic in it. I
think the big fellows of today are
cleverer faster and can hit just as
hard as the big 'uns that Jeff tiattened
out.
IL don't think Jeff is the kind of a
man that will suffer from nervousness.
He's of Pennsylvania Dutch parentage
and has the phlegmatic disposition of
a Holland DutChman. Nothing ever
feazes him. JEFF is the greatest natu-
raj fighter the ring ever produced. He
was endowed with all the physical
qualifications of a champion when
saw him work out with Corbett while
'Pompadour Jim was training for the
F'itz fight. 1t was no trouble polishing
Jeff into a champion. The ring never
saw his equal as defensive fighter,
but I'm afraid Johnson will force him
to do the leading, and if he can make
the white champion come to him it
will be interesting to see how the big
boilermaker conducts himself.
"Corbett Fitz, Sharkey and Rubin
carried the fight to JEFF. All he had to
do was to crouch down and let the
other fellows pound themselves to-
pieces against the armOr that Nature
endowed him with. If Johnson can
open him up and make him do the
leading-and you can never tell what
is going to happen in a pugilistic con-
test-I'd hate to predict the outcome.
THE negro is as crafty as they make
them. He has never been thoroughly
tested in the ring. All his fights have
been big gallops for him. Crowd a
negro hard and he'll fight back like a
tiger. Ring fear will never bother
Johnson. He has big bump of eX
aggerated ego of a different kind from
ring fear The big black conducts
himself in and out of the ring with
the confidence of a man who can do
anything better than anybody else
But don't forget the fact that he has
been going the pace pretty rapidly
himself. | think he will have every
bit as much trouble conditioning him
self as JEFF.
THE fight looks like pretty even
thing to me. If thought jeff would
strip tit as a fiddle and run the fight
to suit himself. that is to say, make