Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27
C0RBETT TO TRAIN NEARLY
AS HARD AS jim JEFFRlES
VIII Thus Try to Help the Big Fell
low Prepare for Coming
Battle.

NEW YORK, Feb. B.-When a trainer of
a fighter pays proper attention to his own
condition the probabilities are that he is
going to send his man into the ring as
good as hands and mind can make him.
This is what Jim Corbett is doing pre-
paratory to taking Jeffries In hand. Not
a day passes that Corbett does not do
some sort of exercise, so that he will be
ready to handle Jeff" when the time
arrives.
II a. not that Corbett intends to be wall
Hoped around the training quarters by the
big fellow, but he wants to have his wind
good and be able to stay a long route with
Jeffries, so as to give him ~lengthyg rlng
exercises as well as long road work. Cor
bett is not going to be the obstacle for
Jeffries to punch. There will be other men
to do the rough work. He will be the lively
trainer, the one who will keep him step
ping about the ring for six, eight or ten
rounds a day, after he has finished his
limbering exercises, such as punching the
bag. wrestling and other pastimes with
which a fighter has to go through when he
is preparing for a fuss.
Corbett wants to bring the championship
back to the white fighters, and he is sacrl-
ficlng lucrative engagements to be with
4 ANaf bONh ia AAAo C0AAS ~
and at the rlngslde. Corbett knows Jeff"
like a book, and he viii look after the
smallest detail to send him into tho ring
fit to stay a week, II necessary, If the
fighters constitution win stand the strain.
In asking Corbett to accept the position
of master of the training camp, Jeffries
has done a wise thing. What he needs
most Corbett can help him to-speed and
staying quality. He has every other neces-
sary qualification. He can stand the most
severe punishment, and after a long session
he has a knockout punch the first time
opportunity presents itself. Consequently,
all that he needs is what Corbett viii en-
deavor to bring back-speed and stamina.
Corbett deserves credit for the part he Is
taking in the prospective championship
Few there are who would give up high
salaried engagements to take charge Of a
training camp, but there is a lot Of pa
triotic pride in Corbett, and always was,
hence his participation in the preparing Of
Jeffries. If in later days of Jeffries' train
ing Corbett sends out word hat J~effries
is as good as he ever was, or even that
he is. good enough TO win, it win be a
signal to the spectators to get into the
market with J~effries' money, for Corbett
will know what he is talking about.
OF course It is natural for the raine OF
every fighter 20 have positive belief In his
man, and they usually buoy him up to the
winning pitch, but in this case Corbett
knows just how good Jeffries has been IN
his previous fights, and II he ever returns
to that stage, in Corbett's opinion, and Cor
bett, with all confidence, predicts a victory
for Jeffries, there is no reason to look fur
ther for the winner, for there isn't one per-
soE in 1000 who has seen Jeffries and
Johnson in championship action who would
have given johnson a 10 to / chance seven
years ago.
In his letter to friends Corbett says he
expects to be knocked out many a time
during his tuition Of Jeffries, but he hardly
means that. He is not going to butt into
that left or that short jolt with the right
II he can avoid II when such things are not
necessary. He will do more jabbing and
getting away than jumping In and recelv-
ing stiff punches, He will work as much
like Johnson as he can. teaching Jeffrles
as much as possible the Johnson tactics.
That will be about the line Corbett will
follow in training Jeffries. 1t looks as II
Jim Corbett was as much concerned over
the fight as J~effries, only he won't get as
much money out OF Il,