The Washington herald., 1913-03-16
Jones TO BOSS
TOP-NOTCH MEN
Wolgast's Manager Scheming
| to Corral Champions Of
Different Classes.
ITO PILOT OLD JEFFRIES
Big Jim Wants Chance to Come Back
and Right the Humiliation
Of Reno.
TO PILOT OLD JEFFRIES


that Manager Tom Jones. Of the Ad
Wolgast camp, has heard of Jack Cur
ley's scheme for corralling all the cham
pions OF the different classes and form
| ing pugilistic wild west show.
Not content with having to keep wild
cat Wolgast in subjection-and Ad, they
! say. is harder to handle at times than
a bucking broncho or a cavorting cayuse
Jones IS reaching out in all directions
for top-notch talent
He has placed his brand on Jack Les
] ter. OF Gle Elum. Tommy Burns cast
/ of, and Willie Hoppe. of San Francisco.
| He has secured options on big Jim JEFF
| fries and Bob McAIIister the Olympic
Club ex-amateur, and the roundup has
| barely begun.
| He plans to have an aggregation of
world-beaters OF assorted sizes and by
the time ne fills in all the gaps between
Ad Wolgast and Jeffries his string will
be as long as a suffragette parade
| Jones has become a notably serious
man of affairs. He has discarded that
| fippant toupee he sported a couple of
| years ago and when he removes his hat
| IN your presence he is naked from the
rims of his ears upward. As he sat in
! the writer's den the other night prattling
of the possibilities of the future in the
managerial line the electric lights pro-
duced strange ST. Elmo effects on the
apex of Toms polished dome. But he
didn't mind. He was too full of his sub
ject.
To Manage JeHries.
The point Jones is most buzZed about
| at present is his recent announcement
| that he is to pilot old Jeffries or a second
tour of the championship belt.
| Here's the thing in nutshell" said
Jones. The suggestion came from JEFF
| fries himself. He has never quit brood
| ing over what happened at Reno, and he
still harbors the suspicion that he was
| drugged by somebody. He went on the
| water wagon several weeks ago and
| stands to lose heavily in wagers if he
tastes booze inside of a year. He has
| been training on the quiet and he is full
of the notion that the present day heavy
| weights are a lot of no-goods. He told
me in the presence OF his brother Jack
| that he believed he could lick the best
| man in sight at present and that he had
| a good mind to hop back into the game
/ said to him Why don't you do it then
| and Jack Clipped in with the remark
| that his big brother was foolish not to
| take another whack at fighting. We talk
| ed the matter over from every angle
! and Jim told me to go ahead and make
i whatever announcement L saw fit. the
understanding being that was to act as
| his manager il any matches were ar
| ranged. He said he felt so good that he
| believed he could be ready to box in two
\ months time. il necessary, but. of course,
| there will be no such hurry as that He
\ will keep right along with his preparation
and if he continues to improve as he has
| done in the short time he has been
\ training We will have something of a
\ business-like nature to give out about
| four months from now.
So far Jeffries' newly aroused ambi-
| tions have excited nothing but ridicule.
| The belief exists in some quarters that
| he is eager to patch himself up sufficient
| ly to get in on one big clean up. In
| what purports to be an interview given
| by him in Los Angeles he is made to
say that If Sufficient inducements are
offered he may be seen in the ring
| again on. July l. Putting the matter in
that way has given those who have been
/ sore at Jeffries ever since the Reno dis
aster a chance to flourish their hammers.
They say sneeringly that he received
something like cool sfOo.O00 for taking a
| few of Johnson's uppercuts. whereas 10
cents would have been ample pay for all
the fighting spirit and fighting talent he
DISPLAYED. From which it will appear that
in talking of sufficient inducenents'' al
this stage of the proceedings Jenries is
yenturing on very thin ice.
r FROM tne lOOh OF II JeH Is slI11-
ply bent on figuring in one match for big
money he will be disappointed. The critics
and the public will not stand for anything
like that II as some say. his motive is
to rehabilitate himself and prove that
he is a better fighter than his showing
with johnson would indicate he may be
able to arouse interest in his plans for
coming back. But by his work we shall
know him He will need to test himself
first with course of training, and after
that he should hire a retinue of heavy
weight rough necks and go at them in
private so as to gain an idea of his abil-
ity to administer and receive.
Then If still convinced that he has a
few fights left in him he can express
a desire to be matched with some of the
lesser lights of the heavyweight division.
declaring at the same time it is his in
tention TO work TO the front gradually.
II Is the writer's belief. however, that
Jeffries has been seen in the ring for
the last time. There are times when
memories of that humiliating experience
at Reno make him as mad as a hornet
and on such occasions, no doubt. he feels
of his muscle and grinds his teeth and
declares how different it would all be il
he had it to do over again.
But this is merely a phase of human
nature. In Jeffries' case one OF the
things he should ponder over when he
feels the comeback bee buzzing around
him is the fact that he is now thirty
eight years old.
For a man of that age to be thinking
of scaling the dizzy heights of champion
dom a second time Is a serious matter.