The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-30
HIDDEN PERIL
WAY LOSE FIGHT
F0R JEFF FR|.ES
? sssss s5sss ger Lies in Fat
! TTssfn His M ig hty
hRsf Muscles.
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y GREAT DANGER
tE1ite Fighter Has Not Trained
lrd Enough to Make Perfect
@sondition Sure and Victory
a Foregone Conclusion.
q His Own Overconfidence
Also Is Detrimental.
% ) RPH1 SCENTS
n GREAT DANGER
BY MIKE MURPHY,
omctnl Trainer Of the University of
Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania.
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Reno, June 2s.-Deeply hidden in
the mighty muscles of Jeffries's abdo-,
men there may be layers of fat which
viii bring grief to the grea, majority
OF the American people now roofing
so strongly for white mans triumph
In the battle of next Monday. 1t is
In my Judgment, can bring revers.
to the greatest fighter the ringside
knows.
Some persons may not at first
thought be able to reconcile my men
ton of this fat with several OF my
articles. In which 1 have pronounced
Jeffries TO be in perfect condition. But
there is no contradiction. Externally.
Jeffries Is in just as superb shape as
visible as he strips. In fact never
saw man who looked finer But
II must be remembered that there
are two kinds of fat. One is the loose
kind of flesh that man will take on
overnight. This doesn't amount TO any
thing. This superficial fat can be rub
bed off; 1t can even be made hard. OF
this Eind OF fat there is not an ounce
on Jeffries.
The Unseen Danger.
But there Is another kind of fat thai
does hundred times more harm. and
,ha, uannot be detected by casual OBJ
servaticn Of a mans external appear
ance. This fat lays deep in the ab-
doninai muscles. and all the rubbing
IN the world will not touch 1t. And
Just as this same ia, is hard to de.
tect and defes any external ork. II
IS equally deadly in its action. 1t
!, makes II hard for the athlete of years
ITO come back IL puts burden on the
vitality OF even the athlete of youth
who has temporarily been out or ac-
tive participation in a sport.
Superficial fat viii come through the
pores The other kind OF fat will no.
Instead. 1t Is absorbed in the blood.
helping in no small degree TO choke
up the great revivers, the lungs.
This fat can only be removed by
incessant work. it must be sweated
out by the most tireless training
training that knows no cessation and
never stops at any hardship.
Jeffries does not look day over
thirty. and everything about him APP
pears all right. but unless he has been
doing more arduous work than l have
seen here, / cannot understand how
he can have escaped this fat
In one OF my first conversations
suggested TO his trainers that way
back out OF sight there might be big
layers of this fat, for Jerfries is a
giant, and his fat producing quail
ties would be in proportion to mis-
physique once the fat got fair start
/ also told Jeffries what though,
about this feature, but In no case did
/ get any sympathy for my idea lha,
there should be more unremitting
work to guard against the possibility
OF a hidden handicap in the existence
of kind of fat that only toll. toll
toll, can take away
Too Self-Con6dent.
I could tell in a minute whether this
fat Is there II could see JeTries in
the kind of a workout I would pre-.
scribe, but Jeffries is too self-confident
to accept any suggestions.
Those who have perhaps wondered
at my constant appeals for more box.
Ing will now understand just what
have in mind.
Another thing much to be feared Is
confidence. OF course. mar
must believe in himself to he any good
but between that and the kind OF as
surance that comedies no ability tc
the opposition there is q radical differ.
ence and a big risk.
I had a little talk with John L. SuY.
llvan that brought this fact home tc
me strongly.
Down in New Orleans, elgh,eer
years ago" said the veteran, ''mysel1
and my handlers never admitted TO,
an instant the possibility that coult
lose Brushing Corbett out Of the way
and getting the purse would be a
Joke. There was no such confidence
In the Corbett camp, and they worked
all the harder for the lack of it,"
Right here the old boy made point
am collecting material for story or
Sunday in which ] shall either pick a
winner. or tell what advantages eacl
OF the men will possess In the battle
Of Monday. To get this material
spent the day in the Jeffres camp
sizing up the situation. l talked tc
Jeffries and all his men After sucf
an experience 1T was possible to carry
away only the idea that Jeffrics alone
was in the fight.
The llon-faced white man himsel1
thinks so. He will enter the bout Will
absolute assurance.
Opinions at Camp.
Farmer Burns says the trick will bt
done in less than fifteen rounds Jus
as sure as the sun rises,
.Toe ChoynslSi advances the startling
proposition that Jeffries is to-day
better man than ever before In hi:
life, a statement so absurd that Il
takes credibility away from any pre-
aiction that the great veteran ma,
make.
Corbett, hghty as ever. said thai
Jeffries cannot lose. First, because
he is big and strong; secondly. be.
ralse he has so much speed, and third,
N, because the negro will quit.
The first pair Of claims are warrant
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