The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-25
SHOWS NO STRAIN
OF HIS TRAINING
His Work Has Been Thorough,
and to Eyes of Expert He Is
Now in Marvellous Condition
and Fit to Do Battle-No
One Can Rattle
Him.
nY MIKE MURPHY,
official Trainer of the University Of

Pennsylvania.
copyright by the Philadelphia North
American and The Times D ispatch.)
Reno. New June 2i.--For a man o!
his years. Jeftries shows an almost IN
credible Willingness to submit TO the
most severe rigors OF training. ! saw
him do things to-day that 1t would be
hard 10 exact Of college youngster
burning with ambition 10 make his
football eleven. He tackled the hard.
est kind Of a program to-day. Run
ming. playing bail, skipping the rope
chest exercises. boxing with Bob Arm
strong. Jack Jearles and Jim Corbett
rihc exercise for developing the alb.
dominai muscles.
Every stage OF this work was marked
by one important. feature, JsTries per-
spired freely; in fact. never saw a
man whose perspiration ran in such 3
stream
RouEhcst OF Work.
The boxing that JeffI-ies did was all
OF the roughest kind possible. and It IS
evident tha, Jim expects that IL will be
q rough bout, with all kinds OF in-fight-
ing.
corbett. good man as he is. is
simply like a child in the hands OF this
monster JeHries. OF course corbett
can stand off at long distance and give
him a pretty battle at the boxing
game, but when 1t comes TO the rush
ing. the battering. heavy inside work
It is man against a child
Jeftries In his boxing to-day did no,
look to be very faet on his feet. and
on this point I want to see more OF
him In the days that are yet to come
il is possible that because the work
Of to-day was largely confined TO in
lighting and rougting tina; he did moi
have chance TO show with what light
ness of foot he could move around ii
need be
1t was not possible either TO Judge
much about Jeffries's Judgment OF dis.
tance in the work he did to-day 1,
was too much clinch. too much covered
up.
4. What will help Jeftries in a roughins
contest is the condition of his stomach
The muscles across It are hard as iron
never saw anything like them.
Never Let's Up.
The awful strain on the abdon1ina
muscles in Jeffs abdominal exercise.
is continuous, but they show the hard
enlng result. Ieffries never lets up
nor does he puff when ii is all over
tell you no man not in good shape
could go through this without collaps
ing unless he had for months beer
engaged In the right kind of work tc
be in shape.
Another thing l like about Jefrries
is that he can deny his thirst THIS is
another evidence of good condition
He hardly ever drinks ANYTHING ex.
cept mouthful of water, and he onI,
gargles his mouth with that Man,
athletes spoil the effects Of their train.
ing by drinking too much water anc
other liquids, but ii is evident that
Jeffries is not that kind.
The regime that Jeffries has beer
following Is pretty well balanced HI
starts at 5 o'clock in the morning
takes three hours. loafs an hour TO,
breakfast and Is then out for tw,
hours more after o'clock. Their
there is loaf until o'clock, and hi
takes two more hard hours
Virtually all of the work here vii
be done out of doors. for Jeffrie.
thinks that this will help him to ge
used to the altitude, which Is, q
course much different from ttfar n
California.
Weighs About 23O Pounds.
Jeffries has been steadily declining
to get on the scales in front of tn,
newspaper men. but it is given to M,
straight that his weight is now 90,
pounds. which Is just about right 70,
man of his size. His eyes are beau
tifully bright and clear, and his hear
must be right to do the work he does
and not show the strain
spoke yesterday about the rasp
berry shortcake he ate. 1t is undoubt
edly q fact that he does entirely FOL
low the dictates of his own iudgmen N
In the matter of his meals, but he 4
old enough In the business. has trajne,
often enough, and certainly know
himself we'll enough not to make an,
very serious blunders. But while h,
insists on being his own boss, Jeffrie
Is good natured In his training, and i
very fair to those about him. He vii
not be bossed, but he is not arrogant
Nor will anybody, Johnson lnciuded
ever be able to rattle him with an,
ring conversation. He is entirely in
different to comment, and goes abou
his work in the most self-containe,
way ever saw.
This Human Bear.
He seems to think very we'll of hi
work with Farmer Burns, the forme
wrestler, and they constantly work /,
the roughest kind Of neck holds I
1t be true, as has been said, that John
sons nerve Is not all 1t should be,
am curious to see what will be tn
effect when this human bear gets hin
In the grip Of one of those frightfu
hugs.
Johnson is here, and tomorrow ex
pect to have a chance to tell readers I,
The Times-Dispatch how his conditto,
compares with that of the man h
must meet
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