The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1909, Page 2

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1909 -THE STAR’S SPORT PAGE- EDITED BY LAURENCI 1 ROTOR JEFFRIES’ OWN STORY OF HIS GREATEST BATTLE “BEST FIGHT OF MY CAREER _ JEFF STARTS TRAINING BUT CAN'T RESIST TEMPTATION ur 310 1? —Jas. J. Jeffries. Retired Chatiiied Writes| outgeneraled Fiteaimmons in Description of Famous} « battle forcing him to lead Battle With Fitzsim- : strong bold hen alwaya been | > jocountering, but aa I kept after him mons, Exclusively for f continually, he had to lead or back| ’ away, and when thus forced he "he S : | The Star——_How Chani-| . wae. soneitnied pionship Was Won , { knocked Fiteeimmons down in * |the second round with a straight “Age jleft to the mouth and he actually } llooked surpriged. He did Bie beat ore + Saray . work in. the fifth round and shot To my iyiad, the best fight T ever | : hin bolt, for his heavtest blows made Was against Bob Pitealm : failed to prove as offective as they WW inaa against other mon, In the} t hth round, after I had knocked Sion, bea viet’ tate down, Fitzsimmons came up Coney [aland io club and be ng scared, He realized thon > t whet: }1 think for the first time, that he Previous to this fight I had met ) | was a beaten man. I knocked him » ego : ee out in the eleventh with a right the east, and been criticized be mons on Jute % 1899, when I knock. | band swing to the ehin knock him out in a | L went into that fight a rank out ie Se aciigaeiaset| "Saag iver O (fate, ctu NELSON SAYS WELSH JIM GORBETT WAS A POPULAR == === than I had ever n in my life, so | — be ae me to hold | tt, fi y - ~ and which | will continue t ut yeare ag never | ! ll : me “ some that my #tom-| forever from the rin * ol, wom ‘the tag had carrie much weight ach was invulnerable, but if this|rever from the ring ‘ lome.” 50 he tela When ‘\testmmons 1 be-| was true, that blow Fitssimmons —_———_ --— lieve I w best condition | |landed under my heart in the fourth | 2 OA Wires Kept Hoe could each. For 30 days|round would have shown — the e. OD hus yt CHIOAGOL* Sies..:ahn~teidiintty . oondtiiana* the Came. anye he’ wit tebee 00 ee oe (tee es “ Corbett rt ne Previous to June 9 I did not drink | weakness, It was a right hand blow, | oe r that to engage in a 20-\give Ad Woilgast a fight. Packey jing in when Jeffries and Gohneen | won City, Mareh 17, 1 ‘ o Union and i & drop of wate so anxious was | delivered with every ounce of 4 C SA | ud tight with Freddie Welsh, the | MePFartand i# out of it entirely, #0 | mix things up next July, but there | biggest pus ‘ ft tb “« out L take off weight When my istrength Fitzsimmons possessed. v | Bettiah lightweight champion, he | far as Nelson is concerned was 4 time, net no awfully long ago, | two or three “ ever 80 busy asf Sront became parched I simply |but I can honestly say it did not iw vid be pinoing hie tithe in Seversi days ago John Roby when ple were fighting for a After beat ’ ens of the wargled bother me | pardy, Battling Nelson declared | Nelson's new manager, announce place he box office window, w lowe ‘orbe i Kast bung on The ocondit under which T| Only once during the fight did| Tomorrow The Star will publish | [olay ty -! * Weleh wants @ fight / that he had accepted terms for ing to pay anywhere from $6 to $35 | Mitche 2 Mtn vtion as the fight ’ . mit jor. 48 rounds of to | 20-rounc ht hetween the Batt for a chance to see Ji nd Bob | and had gone out on ¢ x 0 Seaget, were ¢ raging. I felt / Fitzsimmons hurt me and that was/ypon this page a story by Jack | finish "| aud Welsh, to tale piace in Londen |heve 1 out aye hibition, In which won t rhett. “Conbatty that some of my backers did not! when he split my eyelid. Hia bedy Johneon, in which the present it Welsh h refuses. to accept Lie eolaant Febroary Neat to the Corbett Sulliv an fight | sande of admirers. Fitz te tirk think I could defeat the champion, | blows did not hurt a bit. I think, fcathin totie f Cekt a theseu al nd incidents of my training had | however, those who witnessed that | heavyweight champlon wen discouraging. AS a matter of | fight realized I could take puntish-|toughest fight he ever had, with fact, however, | regard my battle|ment, for Fitzsimmons hit Mm), men who came within an ace of with Fitzsimmons as one of the |/hard and often, and he could Bit a8/ ting Jim Jeffries early in the easiest of my © At the end /hard as any man in the ring at that | F cat ocak tegen t even bre deep! leime. reer o at I was not even breathing deeply im joa 9 NG eebiichs Goce a: ccd. Jenn. Qaaet 4 tanta it cartiel a ¢ on-euvens bat uns 414. hind becaune & player has failed to take advantage of Judged the apt » pnd made « aple eatct e @ halt im the of ‘ : Hit, « : had to keep his eye om the ball to make the stab and orraph An opportunity to soor oo ly did hot know what tho base summers hed beeg deing It or 20 sue The NEp= lost a game th Detrait in this way lawhed through bis mind that Mcintyre would sty at Uurd 2¢ this mem unt the ball fall xafe, or had watched Hinchmman thake th RCLLRTIN p lant noasdn and & good many people, who saw the oak for the plate. THE FOU contest, dre stilt "Ing WHAL pomown c ny, Be Hinob en t . , oie that mia ¥ yh , outtirider caught the ball he straightened | “That wae Ri Sethe have made 4 difference tn the rewult . Here ix where the peculiar part of the 1 ‘hen the detetls were The piay came up tn this manner, Along abo ss ‘ are Sie 1 suet - the Mourfh inning Detroit managed to get . A caught, b t , } } | ; Nelanel eae eerad mak ae Ck “ad ; ie Crawford Wet as he was nearing third, int | Rosana coming u hed good for the Tigers cree tna the th . ‘ Ty Got ahold of a fast one banded up aw wn home, hustled back to pe — Youre abd sent a terrific line driv i a ane Se “rr at field. wh to necond, they only got the batter Northwestern League Standing Slisis: tad ‘nie: teh tein “bas 00 s . ot man at bat, followed with a sir that © Club wT. ke . the Spain a’ ele tor eventually returned the Tigers victors by a » Ryan would help train Jim Jeffries that came over the wi a few | Tacoma .... ot 4 ; was fs " sini iideelirsie test Cakinhe, isin allah an: tia saan neh feud and 4 final reconciliation between two of the greatest fighters | epnigtion .......+ : c | scliccgcas Ss: efits play would have looked all right, but as it turned out Mcintyre the world bas ever known. Jeff and Ryan have been at daggers drawn q : 7 setiietitiesin Sehuen eda te é rae to do thin, tnetend of teusiug away @ chance to se for years, and if the report that t have again joined forces is true. toarii@>inion the ball, w wae hit so sharp sally won the game. and there seems to be no grouvd for doubting it, the news will be “Sunday's game did n welcome to the friends and well-wishers of both. league percentages * Ever since Jeff's fight with Fitzsimmons, when he captured the = championship, he and Ryan have been at outs, and good haters they SUNDAYS RESULTS. we both proved to be. The pair fell out over the question of cotn, ee ee 1 yan claiming that Jeff had overlooked a matter of something It —— . Renken @ 500, and that after learning all the tricks of the trade from Ryan seco tecpaadbe 4 ex-botlermaker had tossed his mentor aside Hike a losing ticket.| ao dounte header at The breach widened, and friends of both believed that nothing short | park yesterday aftern Of a miracle could bring the one-time partners together again. better « Tommy Ryan ached for a chance to get even with Jeff, and with | during : t this idea in mind he spent months trying to condition Jim Corbett t m ts ~; ‘ ile Pe SAP I % for his second fight with Jeff, which took place in San Francisco tn" e 1 z August, 1% T was sitting just back of Corbett’s corner at that | %y, ".ner on! ‘ ora mall Kitch 7 |Full fight, and thy fs no doubt that Ryan believed that ne was about to | tween the Range en H Sj | C en revenge himself by proxy. When Corbett got the awful punch under | gach team scoring a lone « * } . |Size the heart in the-second round, that killed all his speed and made it neces | game did not count ir = fps fea sary for bim to stand up and swap punches with the champion instead | standings. a» the schedule | e Solid oak Kitchen ‘ cada of solid eaicn of following the tactics that almost won him his first fight against | revised aving the Thiatles . 9} Cabinet 4 os i? c , Jeff. the blow hurt Ryan almost as much as it did his principal. | Rangers with an open date yo . J abinet like pic. | 1 Edel Corbett took the count of seven, if memory serves, and while he was |") od game the Sonttle ; 7 , T i, ture, 26xé24nch us on bis knee’ Ryan was pleading with him to “Get up, for God's sake.) gioven wok the n cantare ne fend. | . it | ahiem-aemee ah ‘ | | $35.00; designed as ahd kill the big monkey.” Well, Corbett finish in the tenth Is ring | tine to the tune t , tte . ? ohare, . PS AE Be history, but the records don't say anything about Ryan's feelings, which : Tacoma beat ion T te 1 fey y sum work table " | ' cs " : ; ° e it e we bod Renton In «gn eae one al ~—-eo ted flour b rlass is perhaps just as well for th veri ¥-ot the dope book nina ™ “ “ x: tes al : | vate ur bin; glass door cupboards, tea . f “+; flour bins ree eee OHNNY WARD’ 4 and coffee canisters, Ryan made a fighter out of Jeff and transformed him from « big, iJ RD’S a ~ drawers and | lumbering, slow-thinking iron pounder into a clever and speedy boxer FIGHTING FACE moulding board, Jeft had the physique and the ability to take punishment to start in atch eT Had with, but he was a joke with the gloves until he graduated from Tommy ‘hge ag Ryan's class. |! 4 cupboards fitted b Ryan“was a.stern master, and the lacings that he gave Jeff in his } J ; ; with ehelves and Oi ain in ao 3 ex- ‘endeavors to make the big fellow defend himself were something awful | pein ah cpa A Time and again he beat Jeff's face to a jelly, and finally, when the big i a, ten fellow had mastered the elements of detense, he showed him how to take : and coffee canis = | in. deep. Spe the aggressive and put into use his giant strength. He finally made | ters and «ix apice renuine Oil Paintings on art wood in the burnt wood effect, | cial for today Jeft. do, for his awn protection, just what no amount of talk could have ite, } jars; regular like cut; also Oi Paintings on canvas nice pil accomplished—addépt the famous crouch that makes the big fellow so ie price $22.50. Spe These & in nice gilt frames. hard to land on effectively. 7 7 ' Tes S a long story behind the meager announcement that Tommy | regular price | spice jars, aluminum covered extension ta large slevated and = tomor t pictures are 10x20 inches; regular yalue $3.00 to ‘ 2 : ‘ clal 813. $5.00 each. Special for Christmas ....... vecneeness $1.75 sia MARINO WANTS FIGHTS eee : i Kiddie Marino is one of those unlucky fighters who is willing and anxious to take on anybody at any old time, and who can't land a atch in this neck of the Northwestern wilds. Perhaps it's just because 5 ¢ in his eh that the sc era hereabor leary es e t die bars no-one in his class that the scrappers hereabouts are leary of | ree Costumer Ba seid kdea GG OF tabla Pedestal 8 game. Marino is out with a challenge to Kid Herman, whose intention of room for your Christmas gues re-entering the ring was announced in The Star last Saturday. [If ; ‘ | This sale affords you a splendid op- A Pedestal Herman really means business this match would listen exceptionally | |e , , sortunity to procu r iakes cel Day Sia tases tan Seitten Makino te come down vs Celttorsia This would, make | fostunity to procure a good Dining oyen abe and fight under his management, promising some matches, and if | 1 good present, de nétbing turns up here Eddie will leave for the south soon after the i ' | first of the year. | bi a | Marino has been fighting his way through Idaho, Montana and f ed; 5¢@ ft ‘ British Columbia for nearly two years now He's beaten Eddie Santry aa i tension Table, finished gold- ! Art St. Jermain, Kid Howard, Kid Davis, Curly Smith, Billy Lauder and % -inch tubing, }en $26.00 oe, ee a lot more fair fighters, and has lost only three mills; one each to Abe good spread to | $44.00 6-foot Solid Oak Extension Table. { A with a 12-inch ALiell. Perey Cove and Billy Lauder. If there's a chance to match him | legs; hooks of|en $33 ita |top; made of ec e deserve t and wou ¢ pte prove a ‘06 k . “4 i cravin Tacoma he d it and uld undoubtedly prove a good unbreakapl mal- | $40.00 6-foot Solid Oak Extension Table solid oak in bn: € ate art able’ tron a|finished golden $3 golden or I JEFF HAS NO SN st egpaly con-|$47-%0 blot Solid’ Oni itciension? Roig [Et AP | ] structed costumer, | finislfed golden ines $35.50 F also _ imitatio finisht@) black or | $55.00 & 1 "Wack : h | mahogany ; re WITH BLA CK JA CK JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD $ foot Solid Oak Extension Table } gany ; ‘it: dasa, hale, wont ae, anaes \\ oxidized; regular | finished golden e $41.00 : ular price $4.00, ace with Johnny Ward, Murphy's > Price $5.00. Spe-| $75.00 8-foot Solid Oak E "a1 3 Specs to n Friday, who lost his fight for cial ‘ ‘i extension Table, | ne ency of the National cia $2.85 | finished golden peer $56.00 jand the count before Jim Jeffries in th coming and block it Coming in as Ward was once a star infielder i } pte bane Ph gpd » lay himself open for a knock. | 0% the old Giants, and later studied eased | that matter, for several session wallop, he always beats the blow | 1°, der and golt plays ‘|| Quartered Oal CARD TABLE — Like Quartered Oak a shift backward ter that at all, is the bel He is faster than Corbett, al- | tishting face en i picture. 34-inch rounc | fom McCarey, of Los Angele ’ jaa & tent L . I the chin, that he habitually thrusts * @ on nd arlor Table r M : gh a different kind of boxer top, covered in greet Was one of the unsiicceastul bidders | Corbett'n footwork. ‘wax wonderful, [24% even When arguing with a Jury inin ) ; green | he oe, tie big Hight. but Johnson in addition twiat | He wot that chin. no doubt, by long | baize, legs well braced “I consider Johnson one ¢ his ody aa auloh as his and varied arguments with the um — — et strong § most wonderful me ho ree t It) bires at an earlier day light, yet strongs a $5.00 stepped into a ring,” sald McCar oat wang day og Pig 8%: |} A fine wellmade Dining Table for $3.15 Cane ayane who thinks he is Just | detracting from Jeffries’ ability. Jef ZBYSKO- Chair lke "picture, but with A CARD TABLE — 27.32 . sion with a ae > ftorent fighter, and when they cane seat; a very neat design I inch top, covered in green . shaped. top and opinion. mr at De ROLI ER with continuous back «= baize; light, strong. and paptcwelss top to lowe and Jo ran nt Y.M. C. A. WRESTLERS pietbsin ey claw fect, full SEs anced serviceable; $4.50 value square. French Picking the winner, but am Just siv-| IN TRY-QUT TOURNEY | Zbvoxo, tie giant Pollan wrentier | on ee eae Nite, for vee ees BRT legs; an extra fighter panic | who popped into the spotlight by || OM Oak throughout; reg- | 4 - OPE 1 well-made T: sar agp holding Frank Gotch without a fail|} ular price $3.75. Spe N EVENI ri —— oe club severaiitimne , oe firmament tomer, {2% 4% hour last Thanksgiving: In|} otal — — NGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS j ble, bolt con I don't thin +s night ; rae a 4 match at Buffalo, will tackle our | struction ; regu man in th ir at I! represent the local br “pe own Dr, Roller tonight at Kansas | é A . } bes 4 blene i i thwestern cheap saneh | city. Zbysko has contracted to | 9 nists WANT lar price $6.2 the. me wonder . t aii the mat: men-are te Koller twice in an hour, and _~ re i. : | Special today we in ' steenatir (aod conditian nen are IN| it looks as though he hed taken me / k \ | : tche ) y » Job, that is, if — t f - ac! and tomorrow matches are expected. | ’ . et a, —-+ O5 i A eye, Pulled off in| emides having made an exceltent || REAL LACE CURTAINS — All |ghowing against the champion, Harvard, Princeton and Co Zbyako has another olaim to tame |} broken lots of one to three pairs of a} | Shee 9 ) i LACET BATTENBERG CURTA play chens December | 418 name 1s spelt more ways than Sed i jany other man in the world of |} kind, $20.00 to $40.00 values, in Ven- $c ‘ : Made of gxtra heavy b&bbine not knock bi i -—- sport can boast of. Zbysku, Zbygeo, med witt : i 1 eek ies one DANCE AT DREAMLAND, | Zbyecko and Zvyqv0o are a ise, Duchess, Irish Point) Renaissance, AcCOno “Ane UNION for tines ; Tiina ee “dy ial ‘ or ibrary, dining ro Se he. bpep equaled, He han one Dance tonight. Admisst samples. ond but. the big keenent of event Pt i Oe wion free. |foretgner Khgws i, hAl combinae |WL-ouis XIV,, dtc. S ' venights, and h 4 #6] tion of letter#and he ian't telling. ki perial at $18.65 ||_All Specials Are Cagh, No Phone or 6. 0, B. Or $15.00 values, for Table underpriced. The picture “S tle gift, and in shows a 6-foot solid Extension Ta expensive, too, ble in the golden finish—$17.00 value for .. $9.85 This special high, | $35.00 6-foot Solid Oak Ex number is 34 signed as pictur That Jack Johnson will not take to be able to divine just what ta A very pretty Table, designed Johngen ght ae i ceniies whi and #som6 exception