The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-06
VIII Begin Training h Hot Springs Early h March
IS WORRIED OVER HIS WIND.

contest with Jack Johnson the first
 week in March rhn biz fellow has been
 receiving hundreds of letters daily
 from the tight expr--s and fans offer 1 ing all kinds Of Sug-ts tnuS as to how
 he should prepare .or uy .omjng mill
 and some advice as 10 how np shuuld 1 fight the negro As Jo0 hts ais own | ideas as to how be should train for the
 coming mil. an The suggestions will ! go for naught
 l Je6Tries has announced time and ! again that he will devote most of his 1 time to outdoor work so his wind may 1 be as good as it ever was. He figures ! that with his bellows in good shape he
 will have very little difficulty in dis
 posing of Johnson. While Jeu thinks
 this Is O. K. still there is another thing just as important That is for ! the big fellow to select staff of husky l young pugilists. not old timers, to ! fight not box, with him, men that
 will try hard to sneak over knock out wauop He should engage in one of these real scraps twice a week. 1 Then in a short time he would know
 whether his judge of distance Is as
 good as ever. In justice to the peO- pie who are going 10 bet on him in the coming fight Jeff should do this These
 men want to bet on James J., but they don't want to bet bundly. They want 1 to know whether be is there
 A man may train with the strength
 of a bull and the endurance of a Mar
 athoner. but training isn't lighting not by a long chalk One round of real fighting sometimes takes more gimp out of a man than a half days hard work iu the gymnasium. It's the nervous strain that does it,
 ! When old John L. Sullivan turned
 up in New Orleans to train for Jim 1 Corbett a bunch of prominent sporting
 men filled the gymnasium to see him | begin training Old John was fat; there was no getting away from that l But, fat as be was. there was one thing which he could dO-he could skip the rope as nimbly as any other big man, and it did not seem to affect his wind. John performed a few stunts, took hold of the waistbaud of his trousers and hauled in about a foot of slack,
 and that was enough for the wise
 boys. They went out and offered
 three and four to one that John L.
 would lick the youth Corbett If | Corbett man turned up with any
 money they matched for him. Jimmy Britt never showed more power of endurance than in his train ! ing for the Colma fight with Bat Nel- son. Britt was also rope skipper,
 punched the bag and sIugged with his sparriug partners for about two hours ! every afternoon, and such a gluttOn
 was he for work that be did not take ] the usual rest of one minute between ! rounds, but shadow boxed or mauled
 g heavy bag while the trainers were ! resting. He seemed to be able to last l from noon till sundown, and he might l have been able had he played his own ] game and boxed with Nelson instead ! of standing up h the sixth round to ! slug it out then and there.
 At the end of that terrific three min.
 utes both men were very tired, and Britt reeled to his corner gasping for
 breath
 I'm awful tired" he said
 ] All his weeks of hard work, all his ! training for stamina and endurance, i left him weak and shaby after three minutes of real fighting.
 | Jeff should have some real fights. l The provisions of the articles of agree meut will prevent him from cngag- ing in public battles, but there is no ! reason why he should not take on some tough fellows and fight them to a ] finish in private. He will get nothing of assistance to him in boxing with l clever man. What he needs is real ! fighting. If Stanley Ketche had train ed for his second O'Brien fight by try ! ing to pick up cleverness O'Brie4 would have outpointed him, because that is l O'BrieD's game.
 Jeff will probably have the greatest all star training quarter staff in his tory, and seven or eight good cooks l will always scramble the eggs and scOrch the soup.
 What Jeff needs is big, tough men
 who will stand up and try to knock his
 head off his shoulders. To win this
 fight he has got to perfect a system of
 rushing in with both hands and fail
 ing away until he lands one good wal
 lop. just as Stanley EetcheI went after ] OBrien.
 It isn't going 70 be brain which will
 lick Johnson s,s much as brawn and the wIllOp.
 Sprintsr Rss4ben Now a Jumper.