The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
Bx JAMES J. CoRBErr

l some good fights, but nothing that | gave to him any great ring promt- | nence. Dundee, on the other hand was looked upon as a possible cham plon. Dundee, confident and careless. | walked out for the first round and he fore he knew what was going on Jackson smashed him on the chin-anJ Dundee was a knockout victim, for tha l first time in hisslife.
 Jim Jeffries, on tour in 1903. was l meeting all corners. He never figured that from a crowd of melodies" there
 woulo rise man who could last four l rounds with him. But along came Jacl. Munroe, an 'unknown"-superbly con ditioned He started after Jeffries at the tap of the first gong and kept after him for the four rounds and actualIv defeated the heavyweight champion of the world. All because Jeff held Nun roe in contempt and didn't go into the battle in the condition necessary when meeting a dangerous foe.
 But Jeffries got his reyenca h,, granting Munroe another chance. training for the contest, and knocking him out.
 On another occasion earlier in his career. Jeffries was guilty of rintr carelessness that came very close tc obli.erating him from the pugilistic horizon
 Jeff had made great showing in the west through 1897 and the early part of 1893 and then came east to show the folks what he could do. He was matched to meet two men on ono nisht in the same ring. Jeff figured that both Of them would be rather eas.- Tor him and did not get himself iuto the very best condition that was pos slDie. As result, Bob ArmstronG, the flrst opponent on that night, dealt out beating to Jeffries which was or such nature that Jeff decided not to go on with the second fight. Jef- frles lost considerable prestige in the east through his miserable showing il, that light and lost an immediate chance to try conclusions with Bob FitZsimmons.
 But in one sense Jeffs poor show ing against Bob Armstrong was the real means of getting him chance at the championship Bob F'itzsimmons saw Jeffries in action in that affair and decided at once that Jeff was d false alarm so the promoters car,e back to him asking that he take on Jeffries-a match which Bob earlier had refused to make. And Bob readily agreed.
 Many of the Bob Fitzsimmons' foi- lowers always have insisted that Bob was beaten by Jeffries in their memo rable battle in 1899 largely because of the carelessness of the Australian. Bob, in oft-repeated remarks, before that battle. showed that he considered Jeffries as little more than a joke. Never for a moment did he think that Jeffries could whip him. Both trained for the fight, of course, but those who were close to Bob declared that .ie never trained with all the earnestnes., that he had shown when conditioning himself for other titular contests
 And even when Bob entered the ring he conducted himself much in the fash ion of a man who was about to have fine evenings entertainment and play few tricks on a friend. It wasn't until many rounds of fighting had ended that Bob awakened to the fact that he had before him man who was his master. And then, when the realization came. it was too late to help Bob and Jeffries battered him into inconsistencies.