The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-10-19
Former Negro Topnotcher
Claims Jim Cofey Will
Defeat Moran in Fight
Tonight.

New York. Oct. B-Ole Joe Jeannette.
the coffee-colored patriarch OF the pad
ded pen, who mas been working with
Jim Coffey. has made a very important
discovery about James. OF Joe has dis
covered that James prognathaus jaw Is
not glass after all. despite the diagnosis
and analysis of the experts.
or Joe has a naive explanation for
the manner in which the Irish giant
rocks and reels and generally gyrates
whenever he gets a smack on the tip of
the chin, and which had given rise to
the theory that the lower portion of
James mush. or face. is constructed or
some brittle substance.
TITS his laigs." says Ole Joe, meaning
legs. Hes top-heavy. His laigs 60
wobblin' around under him when he gifts
stays clear and he isn't hurt. people
gifts the idea that he has a soft tawer.
Another thing. Jim's stummick amt
nevah bin none too good. He puts jes'
most anything in IL and didn't know
what to eat. or how to eat. or nothin'
and that weakened his stummick But
o cose his stummick weakness nevah
got into his Jawer like his laigs"
So then Ole Joe has been spending a
lot OF time showing Jim how to keep his
top-heaviness under control and to
building up his stomach, and Joe thinks
Jim will knock Frank Moran practically
insensible IN the early stages of the
night at Madison Square Garden tomor-
row night
That seems to be the opinion that pre-
walls generally among the local followers
OF the fstic pastime.
Cofrey has never met a man of real
championship class, while Moran has
boxed at least one topnotcher Maybe
johnson had gone away back when
Moran met him In Paris. but the fact
remains that subsequently II took the
present heavyweight champlon-the man
pronounced by the experts as invincible-
twenty-six rounds to beat him.
Arguing along the line that johnson
couldn't knock out Moran in twenty
rounds. and that Willard took twenty
rounds to the job OF beating johnson, a
knockout by Coffey inside OF ten. rounds
tomorrow night ought 70 make Jim look
pretty good. As for Moran, IL he wins
the cry will 20 up that coffey was over
rated, anyway. and there you are, The
best poor Frank stands to get is the
worst OF it.
Coffey fell into mighty good hands
when Billy Gibson secured Joe Jeanette
to look after the IrishInan. or Joe is
some Of his own knowledge OF the game
to another fellow. and Joe certainly knew
enough about fighting when he was in
his palny days to make him an authority
on the subject.
Not rated as "has-been," Jean
nette is probably good enough today
to beat most OF the men In the heavy
weight division. including the two who
meet tomorrow night. But he will
probably never again be seen against
a white man q any note. at least
around New York. However. IL Cotfey
should ever become champion. he will
owe much of his success to the teach
ing of the old Hoboken greyhound.
Jeannette's success as a teacher lies
in the fact that he does not try to
make a green hand do the things he
himself used to do in the ring. which
is the invariable mistake of the aver
age fighter who Is trying to teach a
pupil. Jeanette studies a man care
fully, notes his natural resources and
his strongest points. and developes
him naturally.
He has not tried to make Coffey
fight the way Jeanette used to fight
He has merely tried to develop and
bring out Co1fey's natural ability.
Here and there are traces of the old
Jeannette style in Coffey's work. cas-
lily recognized by Joe's admirers. but
on the whole the Irishman fights In
peculiar to himself.