The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-01
THE FAR ON JErrnrEs,s 1Ns1DEs


all were for the State.
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THE FAT ON JEFFRIIss's INsIDEs
i Jack London says that 1t all de-
Ponds on which OF the animals has the
most protoplasm, and has proved hi.
case, at least to our scientific appre.
hension. We were sure there was
something OF the sort but were no,
quite certain exactly what 1t was +,
was the one paramount ISSUE sc
to say, that the Hon. William Jen.
! nings Bryan did not possess in his
several races for President. and we
| all know what happened to him. II
| was the lack of protoplasm. We are
inclined to think, without knowing a
| blessed thing about it--that is the
way so much thinking is done in these
grand and awful tlmes--that Jeffries
has protoplasm and to spare, not
withstanding Jack London's fears on
the subject; and it would be safe to
put your money on Jeffries's proto-
Dlasm every time, and twice the sum
your wife will consent to your risking
on a dead sure thing
A much more serious cause of doubt
| Isl the suggestion made by Mike
Murphy, of the University of Penn
| sylvania another of our special cor
respondents at the front, deeply hid
den in the mighty muscles OF Jeffriess
abdomen there may be layers OF fat
Mike is very careful in his statement
and that makes us all the more nervi-
| Gus. in the circumstances. If he had
| said, right off the bat" that there was
a superabundance of adipose in the
great tighter there would have been
instant denial of the soft impeach-
ment by those who have seen the
strong, clean-limbed big fellow with
out superhuous ounce of flesh. But
Mike Murphy, In keeping with the
reputation OF the great race, of which
he is bright and shining mark, for
temperance in speech as in all things
else, is not an alarmist nor conten-
tious person. and didn't say 1t. What
he said was that there may be-
(nark the words> layers of fat deeply
hidden in the insides of Jeffries that
may tell against him in the greatest
battle of his life, The superficial fat
doesn't matter-it can be rubbed off,
indeed, 1t has been rubbed off; but it
is the lard on the inside-the big
layers of fat ensconced in the abb
dominal muscles, where nobody can
see them but only guess at them
the fat that will be tried out" when
the fight begins, and, running freely
into the blood, may help TO choke up
the lungs and thus shut off Jefrrles's
wind to his undoing. It was the fear
that Jeffries is overstocked with this
sort of cottolene that has made Mike
insist all the time upon more boxing
while the training was going on; but
he did not speak out his mind clearly
on the subject until it was too late,
and. now, nobody can tell what may
happen.
Some of the other experts at Reno
do not share Mixes views; but we
are half inclined to believe that he
has got it down about right In
humans, as well as in hogs we think
it may be assumed that the safest
rule is streak of lean and streak
of fat; at least that is the rule that
has made our Virginia bacon quoting
from the New York Evening Sun what
1t quoted the other day from some
THE pillar of peoples hope.
The centre Of a worlds desire
What this has to do with the sub
ject under discussion, we have not the
faintest idea, except that it Is on the
general topic of fat. which. according
to Mike Murphy, may be the unseen
enemy even now smuggling away
under the abdominal muscles Of
the big white fellow who is to meet
the coon, Fat in the abdominal mus
Giles has caused trouble before. There
is the case. OF Eglon. the King OF
Moab, for example, who is reported to
L,
indepd, that when Ehud, the left
handed Benjamite, called on him one
day and in playing with dagger,
which he had made with two edges,
drove 1t into the king with such force
that "the haft also went in after the
blade, and the fat closed upon the
blade, SO that he could not draw the
dagger out" If the King had con-
suited the Mike Murphy Of his day
he would have been advised to work
off his abdominal fat and the story
might have been different. We have
been little upset by the fat theory,
but we are certain that in respect of
protoplasm, Jeffries has the moke
skinned mile as they say in
Texas.
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