The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
Of the Battle -Jeffries a
Constant Puzzle Vary
ing His Program
To Suit Himself -Rumor
That His Elbow Is
Inflamed.
johnson Surprises by His Stcadiness
mt Work-HIcnce the Contrasts, Sus
picions and Conclusions of Report
ers.
BY United Press Wire.
(By Max BalthasprO

Jeffries' Training Quarters, Moana
Springs, Reno, New, June 2g.-'I
think Jeffries will rush and clean up
in two or three rounds"
mo, he won't. He'll feel out the
black fellow for seven or eight rounds
taking n good beating i'm the mean
time. And as soon as nc finds that the
negro is becoming discouraged be-
cause his punches are doing no dam
age then he'll sail i'm and finish things
up
w hy should he wait? Why should
he hold back and let the negro cut
him to pieces? All Jeffries has to do
is to stick out his chin, let Johnson
drive his hardest and when the cham
pion finds that the wickcdcst blow
he has In stock can not down his Op-
ponent. Johnson will be pie"
Nothing like that. Johnson is too
clever He can stall around for an
almost unlimited number of rounds
and 1t will simply resolve itself into
a question of endurance. If Jeffries
is near as good as he looks when he
works, there will be nothing to it.
figure that under these conditions
Johnson will last about thirty rounds"
And so on ad indnitum.
Gather a bunch of friends of JEFF
fries persuasion, be they mere mould
ers of personal opinion or moulders
of public opinion, and that's the sort
Of talk you will hear. Jeftrics will
win, one round, six rounds, fifteen
rounds, twenty or thirty rounds. New
er,has, opinion as to the duration of
big fiBht been so varying with the ulti-
mate so certainly axcd i'm the minds
of the judges. Even in Jehries' camp
the picking of rounds is as widely at
variance as the selection of the win,
ming number on the roulette tables
that one may discover with a little
effort and the aid of the Cappers.
To those with merely superficial
knowledge of what a boxer should do
the work of the big fellows is quite
a puzzle. Jeffries is loafing too much
they think, unmindful of the vast
amount of labor he has gone through
on the other hand they think John
son is digging in too hard, forgetting
that he has not applied himself un-
til within the past few weeks.
The many unusual training phases
OF this contest are enough to put the
sternest conditioning mathematician
to the bad. Jeffries passes the word
that he Is going to work his head off
Instead he lies around and chats In
the morning and winds up the day
with little ioust with the trout
Johnson, programmed to loaf, tear
into his work like a colored broth'
trying to depopulate the entire chic
en- world. It's a funny game from
any angle and many dopesters will be
surprised when the battle ends on
Monday.
In other ways the fighters show
strange contrasts from day TO day
y One day Johnson shows speed and
confidence. The next he appears TO
be half hearted in temperament as
well as in work. Jeffries never loses
confidence. In fact he seems to gain
1t. his OFF days developing a greater
spirit of determination and grizzly
doggedness than when he is feeling
good.
But II Is as TO the manner in pat
ting aside his work that causes the
greater comment. For instance, Mon
day after Jim had pulled off his early
morning stunt, II was given out Of
ficially by Manager Berger that his
work for the balance of the training
spell would consist of boxing In the
morning >and short "heart sprints" in
the evening. Not only did he entire
ly reverse the program. but after
switching the "heart sprints" to the
morning he cut out the expected box
ing in the afternoon and contented
himself with a nap, a private talk
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