THE WORLD'S FIGHT.

Jeffries and His Trainers.

Johnson on the Flute*

**Tt looks as if I would hare to fight about seven or eight men when I step into the ring, with Jeffries out< West next 'July. I never heard of a man having So much trains and brawn back of him m his training^" This was the remark of. Jack Johnson as he laid aside a paper that contained . a story of how, Jeff pro- « posed engaging some of the greatest athletes of the age to fit him for the batAle, says Ed. W. Smith, the welfckooW • American sporting writer. There was a crafty smiles on the black man's face as he narrowed his eyes and considered some- ■ thing for a ■ white. "There won't he any ! excuses after that,, will there V the \ champion mused as he made mental cal- • culation of tbe fonnidaWe list of helpers that have at various times been mentioned, as being m the Jeffries camp. ■♦♦•He'll he m good shape, or ought to be, with so many taking a crack at him," Johnson continued. "And then if I beat him, which I now consider a certainty, they will have to admit that I am a pretty good sort of a fighter, after all. Or will they say' that Jeff, like Fitz, ,was. too old and never should have tried to upset all 'precedent by coming back ? CORBBTT TO" TEACH HIM OLBVEIH ' NESS and speed. Attell to lend his knowledge of the game. Frank Gotch to wrestle ,wfth him and teach him the fine points of being xough m the clinches, assisted by Con. O'Kelly. Berger to attend to -the ' minor details, and a host of others like Jack McQormicft and Dr. Roller, and maybe Tommy Moran— say, what an array that is ! It is. enough to scare an {opponent half to death before the training, camps ,are established. But there is an old saying that draws attention to the fact pi' attempts to 'establish it as ; a fact tiwv, it- ' is impossible W teach old dogs new tricks. Now, to my way of thinking^ . Jeffries is going -to fightme just. like he fought Sharkey and Corbett and Fit^simmons and the rest of them. " JeSries never ' had but one way of going, but that's all lie knows. He isn't: going to iinjcoYe any at this stage of the game, disliking the game as he did, aad, he never -made a study of it. Always his main dependence was his strength, and that left upjercut of his to the body, the punch that hs used successfully m the second fight, with Corbett. Good men 'like Corbett and Sharkey and Pitzsimmons m those days PUNISHED JEPP TERRIBLY. But m those days Jeff had the vitality ,to withstand the beatings!. He let them teat themselves trying to beat him. it ,will be the same next July. He will be .the- same old Jeff so far as his fighting skill is concerned, and he will attempt ito^reiy m the_s*me old way on his max T yellous strength' to bring off the victory! Do I think he is still there with that strength ?" Again those big eyes became narrow slits, and'thjen a broad grin spread over the .champion's black face. "I might offend Mr JeHries by expressing my opinion on that point," was the ire-^ ply,' coupled with a chuckle of his entice satisfaction with the situation, i Since 'his return to America, James J. Corbett has written his views on the coming big battle. He says- "I know every wallop that Johnson has m his repertoire. And I can box with Jeffries and illustrate to him every punch that Johnson can or can hope to send to him. That is why Jeffries came to me m London and asked me to come as a friend into his camp and box with him". That is just the work he. needs, and- he can't get it from a sparring partner. He fs, as I have said before, like a blooded racehorse, a natural speeder, who hasn't bad a real race for some inane, and needs a few actual ' contests to get hfan back to winning speed. It must be remembered and taken into count that; Jeff hasn't had a figitt m she years. He has to get into real going or as near to it »as possible to fit htm. . PUGILISM ON THE DOWSTWfiKD : URADJS. "I am training mildly, and 'by the time Jeff is ready for fast "boxing I w-iU be, too., And when Jeff has finisfted a few rounds with me he will know he has been boxing. 1 am still young enough and still fast enough to guarantee that. The interests of pugilism as a sport and as a profession need the. return of Jeffries to the championship. The game has "been oh the. downward chutes ever since Jettrics retired, and it was' known ttiat no Heavy weight of the. calibre was left. When Burns claimed the championship it did little to revive the interest, and when Johnson whipped him it created temporary attention, and ' then resulted m .even a bigger slump for pqgtßsm as a national and intcrnati'onal institution of ; enough class to warm; the Mood of gen-ri tlemen. We had never .had a black chsmr pion before, and the predSetians that ■Johnson's, ascendency to the tJaab would crab the game hasre lieen more thaa (fulfilled. The world t& sports owes s.Aecp debt, "to Jeffries for 'coming off &fe farm. jto re-enter the ring: He has Mused /blood into a sijort fljat fesfe .decay-' ing, and if he defeats -Jdlm^ony as I have every hone he wiil X ; it ;wiH: do ranch to raise the game to .feet rang from wMels; It dropped with a '.ccttpfefr ot thndssvitmn i -. ittre Uasfe i&r -searsji" ,