Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
JEFF SELECTS
SANTA CRUZ
ACCEPTS OFFER TO TRAIN IN
MOUNTAINS
BEGINS WORK APRIL 1, AFTER A
LONG HUNT
Sam Berger Arrives and Soon Settles
All Details Regarding Train
ing Plans for Un-
beaten Champ
by JAY DAvIDsoN

by JAY Davidson
Samivel Berger, haberdasher. former
aspirant to the crown of Jemries,
champion hot air dispenser and gen.
eral business manager for James Jay
Jeffries, unbeaten, etc, arrived in the
city yesterday afternoon and was i'm
mediately wheeled out to the hilltop
home of the unbeaten for d dinner and
discussion of details of the training
period which Jeff will undergo prelimi-
nary to walloping the coon July a. At
ter dinner, Sam brought jeff down.
town TO see a funny show and threw
a good feed into the big champ, after
which the press was enlightened re-
garding the plans of jeff and his man
ager for beginning training.
According to Berger, jeff has decid-
ed to accept q proposition made to him
by the people of Santa Cruz for him
TO establish his training quarters near
that city. in the mountains, and few
days before April /, Berger will have
the training camp in readiness for Jen
to move into on that day. Light train
ing, covering a period of fifteen or
twenty days, will be started April 1,
with Farmer Burns, Bob Armstrong
and Berger as chief assistants and
Roger Cornell Of Frisco as head mas
seur. This light work will be only
preliminary to the long period OF nara
work that Jeff viii begin about May
l. Boating. surf bathing and mountain
climbing will form a large portion or
the daily routine of the early days OF
training and about May 10 Jim Cor
bett and Frank = tch will go to the
camp and work with the champion un-
til the training days are over.
Jeffries will leave Los Angeles next
wednesday morning for stay of ten
days or two weeks in the mountains
up i'm the Tehachapi country. hunting
anything In the game line ranging
from pigeons to mountain lions, that
the laws of the state permit to be
killed. After this hunting trip jeff
will return to Los Angeles for brief
rest and pack up his duds to be moved
to the Santa Cruz training camp All
efforts at light training between now
and April l will be cut out after to-
day, when Bob Armstrong will give
JEFF a good rundown after his road
run. JEFF went on the road yesterday
for an eight-mile run, doing three
miles of 1t at about the same rate of
speed that Jack Ripper throws into his
ne-horse automobile when somebody
begins to kid him about showing 'er
on the high. 1t was the best road
work Jeff has done for some time. He
took the road TO Tropico and unlim-
bered for three miles Just to. test his
speed and wind and came back fully
convinced that both were working like
a well-oiled machine.
Eyton May Referee Fight
Berger was asked about a million
questions in the few hours he sat
around at the disposal of the press
men and he answered all of them un-
hesitatingly, with that easy, graceful
the actual truth. When asked to give
an inkling regarding the man who
would be chosen as referee, Sam said
that any one of eight possible men
would be satisfactory to the big fellow,
but further than that he refused to
bulge He would not even name one
of the eight. so all of those who have
hopes may sleep soundly until sixty
days before the fight, when the name
will be announced.
He was asked to pass judgment upon
the local referee, Charles F. Byton,
than whom there Is none more compe-
tent or honest. Berger said that he
knew that Eyton would be entirely
to Jeffries, but added that
he is not authorized to speake for the
dinge. He showed his good faith, how
could induce Jack Johnson TO accept
Eyton, the local man would be the
referee. Johnson, of course, Is expect
ed to make fuss when anybody is
from the Caucasian corner
But local fans would be pleased be-
yond measure If they knew that Ey-
ton. in whom they have the greatest
was to be the third man in
the ring.
Point Richmond May Be Chosen
Berger would not say that Point
where the Nelson Wolgast
fight was pulled Off. would be the
scene of the Fourth of July battle, but
he intimated strongly that it would
be selected today or tomorrow. He
ridiculed the prospects of Salt Lake
City. saying that neither fighter would
be satisfied to see the fight given to
the city because of the uncertainty
that would attach to the efforts of the
to pull It off and the possi-
bility of evasion. OF the payment of the
purse money in the event that the au-
thorities should prevent the fight He1
said that in his opinion the fight would
be staged in San Francisco or Point
with the chances largely in
favor of the latter place.
He does not believe there is one
chance in a million that Rickard and
Gleason will accept the offer of Dick
Ferris to bring the fight to Los An
geles, because it is too big a PROPOSE
ton to handle in such an offhand way
and because the offer does not come
up to the financial possibilities of the
he says. But he believes
that Rickard and Gleason win an
nounce that Point Richmond has been
selected within the next twenty-four
hours. When he last saw the promot-
ers before leaving for the south he
says they had arrived at an agreement
and were in perfect accord and that
they would select one of the two avail |
able sites--Frisco or Point Richmond |