The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-04

| time he entered the ring he did so .
| the spur Of the moment, accepting
( the challenge of a colored fighter
named Hank" Griffin because If
the money he would get by defeating
: In the challenger. The fight Or
! CURED in Los Angeles, Calf, IN
! 1898. and Jeff accomplished the de-
/ feat of the colored man in fourteen
rounds, winding up with ALI artistic
/ knockout.
While this victory did not seem to
{ arouse Jeff to any ambition as q
/ fighter. 1t attracted the attention 81
J fighters to MIN as q valuable train
I ing partner. He seconded middle
/ weight named Billy Gallagher in San
1 Francisco two years later. and Gal
lagher got him a match in 1896 win
/ Dan Long OF Denver. There was a
$1,000 purse up and Long went to
sleep in the second round when Jeff's
( left encountered his nose.
/ II was shortly after this that Jim
/ Corhett began to prepare for his
4 fight with Bob ETitzsimmons, which
gave the latter the championship.
/ Harry Corbett, Iim's brother, who
/ was on the lookout for sparring part
! uers. sent Jeff up to Carson City
! New. 10 join Jim's training staff
! Corbctt hammered the fig fellow uh-
/ mercifully, but Jeff was absorbing
knowledged Of the fighting game thru
every pore. These were his first
real boxing lessons, and he took them
from u master of the craft. With
In three weeks after Corbett's defeat,
Jeff was in the ring again on his
own hook, doing away with the as
piratipns of two promising heavy
weights in quick succession in 1897.
So much had Jeff benefited by
Corbett's training that he was mark
ed as n coming fighter at once, and
a match was arranged for him with
Gus Rubin of Akron. Ohio which
was fought in San Francisco in 1897.
The fight went twenty rounds to a
draw.
In the same year Jeffries fought
Joe Choynski a twenty round draw.
During the next year Jeffries be-
gan to find out how strong he really
was. He knocked out Joe Goddard
of Australia. a hardy fighter with
many victories to his credit, follow
ed that up by knocking out old Peter
Jackson In three rounds. and making
Mexican Pete Everett quit in less
! than three. A twenty round draw
with Tom Sharkey came in the same
year.
During this time Bob Fitzsimmons
was retaining the championship
against all corners. A match was
made between Jeff and Bob at Coney
as a joke. as the man who had gath
cred in Jim Corbetts scalp in de-
, cisive style was thought to be able to
play with the big green hand, JEFF
fries, Fitzsimmons did play with
him---for nine rounds. If there
y was any part of Jeffs head that ms
: did not hit at will, nobody at the ring.
side could locate the place But In
the tenth F'itz tired. and in the elev.
enth, after going down twice, he was
, unable to get up the third time. and
of rin oh nj re hn ri
Five months later Jeffries mel
Tom Sharkey again In a twenty-five
, round fight at Coney Island. JEFF
got decision over the sailor bu
jeff declares that the sailor Is thu
, gamest man that ever entered the
? ring.
Corbett by this time was eager Il
get match with his former sparrini
, partner. The fight was arranged
, and for twenty rounds. Jim took ,
, terrific amount OF punishment. HI
, utterly failed to reach Corbett will
= his gloves, although Corbett batter
, ed him around so freely that the BIZ
, fellow looked foolish. Jeff's sec
= onds told him that he was an ex
, champion beyond doubt unless HI
= did something. and jeff went out L
= do In the next round. He tore af
= ter Corbett Winding the storm o
, blows chat met him no more than b.
? would so many raindrops. His lef
= reached Corbett's midsectlon in tn
= twenty-third round and a momen
later his right ended the fight witt
= short arm Jolt to the jaw.