Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
DOCTOR ASSERTS
JEFF IS PERFECT
Chicago Medical Authority Exam
ines Unbeaten Champ and
Finds No Defect

CHICAGO. May 9.-Since modern
medical science is able TO make a test
of the relative physical strength of two
men, delving deeper than the surface
measurements of a tape, the results
of DR.. c. w. Piper's examination of
James j. Jeffries and Jack Johnson are
interesting. The Chicago physician and
physical culturist made an examina-
tion of Jeffries on January 5, and only
recently the negro champion was placed
under q similar test by the same man.
The comparative surface measure
ments show some odd variations. JEFF
fries is the taller man, but his shoul-
ders lack rs inches of Johnsons
breadth. About the chest the white
man is larger than his opponent who
will face him on July 4. Jeffries' chest,
normal, is 441h inches. Johnson's is
43; when expanded the white man
reaches 4914 to Johnsons 43A. DR..
Piper states that expansion means
lung stretching, not muscular change,
and that slight lung expansion is char
acteristic of the negro race. The men
taper down from the shoulders to hips,
which with Jeffries measure 421k and
with Johnson 42A. Their girth of neck
is identical. Johnson's arms and wrists
are larger than Jeffries', but the white
man is bigger in the thighs, calves and
knees.
The Chicago physician states that
both the pugilists are physically per-
feet and mighty men of tremendous
strength. Furthermore, he believes that
both are sound in muscle texture and
vital organs. He says that if either
has dissipated he has been sufficiently
strong to withstand the effects or that
rumors of dissipation by either fighter
are unfounded
In order to couhterbalance the ef-
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the difference In time between the
tests, he gave Johnson more exercise
during the heart examinations. There
were fifteen weeks difference in time
between the two tests.
The examination of the heart action
was made in both cases with a steth-
oscope before and after exercise. JEFF
fries showed no traces of fatty de-
generation of the heart or of valVular
trouble. Before exercise the beat was
seventy-two to the minute, and after
moderate exercise and three minutes
rope skipping the beat was only ninety
two, steady and strong. After one
minutes rest the beat returned to the
normal seventy-two mark. The quick
return to the normal beat was stated
by DR.. Piper to be an indication of
wonderful recuperative power.
Johnson had a higher normal beat
He registered seVenty-seven a minute;
but, as with Jeffries, there was no
fluttering nor indication of weakness,
and the beat came with absolute reg
ularity. The negro was examined again
after a six-round boxing bout, and
after he had done the gymnastic dip
thirty-five times on the parallel floor
bar. his beat showed no weakness and
quickly returned to the normal.
When the physician examined the
muscles of the fighters he found that
Jeffries showed no indication of de-
generacy There was an encasement of
fatty tissue over the working muscles.
but the muscles themselves were not
fat, and, sprang into instant hardness
under tension. Moreover those power
full muscles are long and smooth from
tendon to tendon. They slip and ripple
easily under the skin without binding
and undue bulginess. The same quail
tiles hold true for Johnson. His mus
cIes are steel. wonderfully developed,
particularly about the back and arms,
snappy and elastic.
AS to general health and condition,
neither man showed any sign Of kid
ney or stomach trouble. Jeffries had
the more powerful lungs and more nor
NAL heart action; but the negro was
not weak as to the lungs, and his
heart beat, while rapid, was powerful.
The hands of both were strong and
large. Neither IlHd Droken OF mis-
placed knuckle. The bones were firmly
knit together and the whole fastened
strongly to the wrist.
AS with most negroes, Johnson's feet
are flat, but otherwise we'll formed and
strong. Jeffries had but one struc-
tural fault. His right arm is crooked
at the elbow, the result Of an injury
received in baseball two years ago.
The bend in no way impairs the
strength of the arm, but limits its ex-
tension,