The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-28
EXPERTS TALK OF
LENGTH Of FIGHT
Armstrong Says Six Rounds and
Burns Says Fifteen With
Jeffries to Win.
ALTITUDE IS DANGEROUS
First Man to Land Stomach
Punch May Win--Jeffries
Trains for Wallop.
ALTITUDE IS DANGEROUS
By Max EaIthasar.

JEFFRIES TRAINING QUARTERS,
MOANA SPRINGS, RENO, NEE.,
June 2s.--"Jims in good shape. He Is
beginning to get little bit cranky. II
he didn't show a little crouch at this
stage of the game I'd think something
was wrong with him"
This is the word that IL passed,
more In gladness than I'm sorrow, by
the members of the Jeffries' training
staff to-day and If there is one baro-
meter better than another as the fight
day for James J. Jeffries approaches,
ii is to see the hope of the white
race" show peevishness. Although he
is much more tractable to-day than
he has been in any of hts other i'm
portant battles SO near the ciang of
the gong. that old feeling which all
oil his trainers. for the sake of their
own comfort. have been dreading, Is
beginning TO assert itself. 1t Is true
his disposition Ia such as not to make
1t comfortable for his camp mates, but
they are reading his work and his ac-
fions more closely right now than at
any time since the giant confided to
Farmer Burns four weeks ago that his
conditions had returned. that he had
regained his old power and speed and
that his stomach, the seat OF most hu-
man woes, is in perfect shape.
With this feeling OF optimism in
spired by the near crouch, those dop-
ing the result of the battle are show
ing greater degree OF activity. Bob
Armstrong. the big negro. has figured
the length of the battle down to six
rounds and thinks Jeffries will be good
enough, II Johnson will stand up and
fight to have a nice chance to cop in
the first round.
Burns Says Fifteen Rounds.
Farmer Burns is more conservative,
not because he has any less conf
dence In his Idols ability to whip john
son, but because he Is always conserva-
tive, Jeffries. he thinks. will win with
In fifteen rounds and II the fight goes
longer than that he will bet his clothes
that the negro will be a badly punished
man and loser.
If ii goes fifteen rounds says
Burns. sit will simply resolve itself into
case OF endurance, and IL there Is
anything that Jim has on Johnson. II
is endurance"
Roger Cornell, the great conditioner.
argues along much the same lines as
Burns. agreeing that the earlier rounds
may go against Jefries, but that. with
one third the battle over, provided
neither man IL very badly hurt, this
tide viii go with Jerfries.
Jim Corbett. Cheinski and Jack
Jefrries are not picking rounds but are
content with saying that 1t will be a
tough battle with Jeffries outgaming
and outlasting the negro.
Altitude May Hurt.
One feature of the fight that Is en-
crossing attention has to do with the
altitude. despite the fact that both
have shown that the air does not affec,
them. 1t is admitted. however, that
one punch in the stomach, 5000 feet
above the sea level, win be far more
hurtful than at sea level. The hear,
does not respond with the same speed
and q tap in the mid riff that a short
clinch would overcome In San Fran
cisco or New York might prove aw-
fully dangerous in Reno.
So the question naturally arises;
VIII Jeffries or the black land the
first wailop to the stomach
That this blow will have much tt