The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1910, Page 2

eee RE RRR RR RE JEFFRIES’ STORY GIVES INSIDE INFORMATION ++ te ee +eeeeeene | (x Ote Oe eet eee th Ey JEFFRIES SAYS HES FIT AND WILL FIGHT ANYWHERE wWrestting Shows Jeff’s Cond.tion THE STAR—TUESDAY CURLEY, GOTCH, JEFFRIES, “By James J. Jeffries. BRUARY 1 1910, THE Right vow I know the public ts most interested in my coming battle with Jack Johnson. Everybody | who knows me knows that I'm not the talking kind. I read right alone where I said this and that, bat | usually the first | know about it i# when I read it in primt. My friends ask me why I don't deng those fish stories that are credited to me, but tf I did so I would only be farther advertising false reports, and besides, I've enough business of my own to attend to. Therefore, I'm glad of this opportunity to write my own story for The Seattle Star. Two things suggest themselves to everybody's mind. Firat, the public wants to know where the . match is going to take place. My answer is that I don't know, and | might add, that I don’t care. | know that I can defeat Jack the gong Tex Rickard and Jack Gleason are reported Take it from me, there won't be any blood spill and I know that as business partne nal preferences yason Want to hold the vided that they have $101,000 tn real money for me to fight for ‘The second question often asked is bow quickly I expect to win. ers predict that I will tear right in afte Of course I have my perse there, buat if Rickard and G tempt. Will the kind public, son, that insisted on a 4S-round contest refused to listen to bim, holding o why should I insist on a long fish fused to discuss my plan of cam any good general, 1 would keep the But I want my friends to pass up all the wild Johnson at sea level or tain terms, and so long as the promoters live up to. these terms I'l! re they wil) have and asa read. The bout with Johnson I* so serious a matter World decetve my supporters by telling them that I was tn gre And now I can honestly say that I never felt better tn my eareer bave I given a ring when I fought Fitesimmons for the first time did I attach so much importance to the outcome. It took me several weeks last spring to decide whether to spend a few months tn and around Se attle last oummer, or whether to foliow the advice of several good friends and vistt Carlsbad. been left entirely to me I would have chosen Seattle, and spent some weeks In the mountains near here certainly did me a lot of good. and the ¢ ‘The trip abro: climbing rolled the excess Wouldn't take me the Pacific coast. You bet I'm glad for it's the vor just after I defeated Fitzsimmons for the second time west country, and now I'm glad to see my friends he moethor r BIG FELLOW DOES. NOT LIKE FUSS Not Grouchy, But Likes to Be Left to Himself, Says! Sam Berger—Promoters Will Get Together. BY SAM BERGER. If James J. Jeffries was w moet human any « e ng, if ma and on the What w hea! i good many yor with him on foveral nt fello’ Feffries in ang the feéis more importa Many ha me Je the present trip ¢ tty have carried off the t bo he ha at he in who wish farther letiries apr negs and dship that he : with ‘ times precia caremon e ® genta! and trier tr domet t CLO FOR WATER FOWL SED SEASON 00 rounds to win the championship back only & doddering has-been, or a real fighter figh nm top of Pikes Poak. My manager has accepted cer yn & desert island, I'll be there at ring time, pro } work about to ir Had tt Jwhen he meets the colored man ne: eee ee oe a ee CA Ome on ROLLER, BERGER--STARS AND PORT PAGE TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT—JEFF RIES WILL SHO EDITED BY LAURE CE REDINGTONW Big Fellow Can Rough It With Frank Gotch, Past Master of the Game, and Stand the Gaff Like a Veteran. BY' FRANK GOTCH. \s hard an a novice does tress, it's & pretty good indication | admiration and friendship, but because we idera just how good he & minutes straight and come out of it just as free! w. I know the wrestling game backwards. half « tte with me without 4 be there to answer the sound of Jim Jeffries is going to defeat Johnson, and defeat him easlty t's & foregone conctusion with all of us who know the big fellow having trouble over the location of the battle groun intimately, and who have hed the opportunity of sceing him grow 4 over the controversy m not a bit worried ower it | etronmer, and fitter, and better day by day You cote t -. any . te © Jul Johnson money among those who really know Jeffries if you raked the citison of Calltorais wecld tory neack ike We ncy [crowd with « fine tooth com not beesuse we are carried away by per know better than the It ten't my intention td 4@ into generalities about Jeffs condition Some of my enthusiastic support [and sctence, or to drag in fagta,that have been printed and re-printed Johnson and knock him out In two rounds or blow up in the at- |a hundred times soing to say something about the Jeffries and the fight fans in particular, please remember that it was I. not John jthet T have tug, adie? and struggie¢ with on the wrestling Remember that Johnson wanted 20 rounds, and that | absolutely j mat during the at two manthe for 45 ro for a finish fight cr else no fight at all. Now then, | = 2 = ou ee wee = ay = ag A = olay md Dgine sonke ren naga, tl ingayase BE eer on lastly re [time of the caich-as-calcMcas game, and of course Tm just as much sign for the coming bout. 1 Ss > wet plans, bat if I bad, Hke bhis master on the mat as heisthine in the squared circle. But Jeff m to myself ta the sort of fellow who Ilea to learn new stuff about athletios and bull stortes and figure and weigh carefully what they imaniy games, and he's always willing to try for a fall with Parmer with me that I yulin't for all the money in the | Burns, or Jim Asbell myeelf, He likes best to go on with me, for t shape if | wasn't then he feels that he ie ug against 3 oan ot bie own sine, and that fe, and that never in my whole fighting | 5* can go as far as he itked with the rough stu: contest such seriows consideration as I have accerded this one iat’ res | Tn these litte set-toe I often find that Jeff can stand the gaff for ax I am myself and naturally I only have if he can go the that he's jin top condition. When I'm working with Jeff I can feel his giant mbination of baths, diet, exercise and hill strength and endurance, by the way he can break some of my holds ight off me #0 that before I had been there two weeks | was sure that it nd by the grip he pute into some of his own No man not tn perfect the white race. I'm ind to get back to | piyaic a“! epntition Could wrestlé aa Jeff does and come out fresh at $2 of the walle. fue aee ne | the end of a hard bout past of m a se Pow b Renn rs eg yo I've had every opportunity fo sine up Jeffr’-> on this trip. 1 know as rancisco ave always like #8 | just how fit he ia, just how fast he ts, and jus ow much he and again, and to give them @ chance to see | And | speak advisediy when I way that {t's Jeff, and Joff all the way Fourth ere am e reaee e JEFFRIES, THE LAST OF THE LOCAL Grapour OLD GUARD, IS-A MYSTERY BY LAURENCE REDINGTON. Either Jim Jeffries Is the most modest and una of the greatest actors on or off the stage. The on find the great actor th cupposttieh of modesty. ory somewhat hard to swallow, so we on uming man in the world, or he ts who have soon Jeff as a high brow thespian, keeping the wolves away from the door as 4 firclad Davy Crockett, must fall back the The truth of the matter ts that Jeff cares absolutely nothing for the plaudits of the crowd, or for what the geperal public thinks of him or his actiona He is as indepen ’ ¢ 1 dent ll outdoors, and this independen akes the form of indifference, which is J often mistaken for suritness. His is not a false modesty, or a shyness that plays to the gallery, but rather the modesty of a really simple pature that ts frankly bored by the attentions of strangers. A “Cave Man” George Cree! calls Jeffries, and = prehistoric he certainly is in many of his mannerisms and his general mode of life Whether Jeffries is really « great man, and as such entitled to a certain amount of self esteem, is a question on which there can be no universal agreement, for often the man whose life spent tn development of brain t# egotistical enough to see no greatness in the man of muscle. So also may man whose whole life spells business, consider that no person but the searcher for the dollars fir e can attain t atness. But athletes the world over, and all broad-minded peo- D ede James J. Jeffries at & modicum of greatness. And great men, minus the knowledge of t *wh worth, or at least minus the outward sign of the knowledge, aro as scarce as the dodo. Therefore as a@ atod and animated Tad, the « nist, who, although he draws puppy dogs of the “Bunk” family, whose eline figures make you laugh, is nevertheless one of the really great artiste of the age. ly tured fries in a wonderful cartoon entitled, “Jeffries, the last of the old guard,” ple unroe old guard the JOHNSON ee ee es : ‘eo TCH « * FIGHT 16 FIXED, * HISSED: SAYS OLO JOHN L. # RETIRE? * * . (By United Press.) *| * BOSTON, Mas Feb. 1 *| By United Preas) York, after|® The flat announcement that he #| BELLINGHAM, Wash,, I 1 . "| thought Jeffrieg-Jolineon #| Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of © fig n “fixed.” was ®/the world, apnounced today that y teday | L. ¥ | following ‘his match with Zbyzsco, * the Pole, he will retire from the a ; ene & | same MS wt fig declared th - * IT am going to win that match # time champlon # jhe says, {and I propose to retire “ Jobnaof! oa if the bout ®/| from the gamo before age wits a * r e J I ® | victory. I will shortly be 32 are rd * | of age and I hate held the cha a ‘ *|pionship six yoars. That's long * x th gov't * | enough for ong man. * ‘ th * James J. Jeffries nour at rose wi # Johnson uhjes Franged & will begin gétive training < * J 8] * He will be in Los An * . en and will train for 160 * : y i ks to ® tralght * I 1 ™ * ~- we tig *| Y. M; 0. A. V8. KENT. * w) ia ¥ Ken ure he held Jeff in shown seated on his backles cross-etched background, gazing in chair in his corner of a ring a ponsibility of the part he has chosen to play. And. tta very action, he has a right to carry his head a t of If he reads this attempt to throw a sic a th ort writers never will let a fellow a fights, t w they try to ring In @ lot of sob stuff and higher r we must look on Jeffries as something quite out of the ordinary run of men, and worth while Insects He sits amid the ently at @ procession of former rivals who are canvas and climbing through the ropes for their final exit. Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Sharkey all the fighters of his time are there. And Jeffries sits in his corner, truly the last waiting for the gong that will call him back into action, to once more battle for the with honor for so long has idealized the moody intellectuality of Jeffries’ features. Perhaps the big ‘fats rdeal as keenly as the artist's master hand hes made us bolleve. But he must feel reallaing the importance whjch higher » light on his moods and feelings It was bad enough when motives, and it 10 TRY His LUCK |Kowalski, Who Says He's Cousin of Zbyszko, to Tackle Gotch Tonight— Crowd to See Jeffries. From the way the pasteboards are going at the advance sate, it looks as though the Jeffries-Gotch-RoUler Joombination would play to capaelty Jat the Armory $25 Suits and Overcoats Suits and Overcoats j | jthat about 4,600 Persone will pe jJim Jeffries = through @ number | lof training stunts kox three |rounds with his Sam Ber leer, which shou tle fan ja chance to size up the former champion’s condition for themselves O€ course Jeff is the big card, but lees are several other stare on the bill who are well worth seeing and jhearing, Frank Gotch will be or [deck to mect a local wrestler who says he ig @ cousin of Zbysako, the His name is Kowal ski, and from his own accounts he fs a pretty tough customer on the mat, having met a number of i= wens sa @tare before coming to thy coun Kowalski is after the § | coun the world’s « t janyone who can 16 nute with him, the bout wi fo: } at any ra | Will do @ little high | brow talking, and tf no one has the temortty to go on with him for the {$100 he offers under the same cong {tions as Gotch, he will, probably work with Jim Aabell, the Kansas |City wrostier. Farmer Burns w be there with the funny stuff and exhibition wrestling | Altégether it looks like @ big night | tonight And the beat part of the t on the bill at al I's aratioe of Jack Gi gside, which is expected In arrives on time. ( " eves that b an ‘straighten out the battle ground puaale by a lor talk with Ar and he iat purpos vay Ther $20 Suits and Overcoats eee. 2 Te GLEASON HERE tonight to 4 tous nd for the Wi Jettrien enon «aide at nd will © ring and action te 4% * * +5 Se SPSS ESE ET ES Bae! SOOSCSOS CSO SSSOSEs Oeeeoes BY ADDIE JOSS. joes not go directly at one t Managers and ball are | infielders will score a Couple of runs. ming to @ realiea' ix a Had the men been playing back it mighty dangerous thing to be pull- Would have been an easy matter tc ve oan ing the tnflelders ta ts try to pre- |Prevent anyone from cronsing the the Dutchess a at few ent & man from third scoring on Peo As it was the drive a short drive, that barely reaches A play of this nature practically 4 o being + me of the Inner workers fost Detroit the first game of the rd and one "e run aroun th There are tira in every game late world’s werles played at Ben- had two tallies, ome. when it is the right policy for a club Pett park. The Pirates had men runner on iret, to resort to this style of play, but *eeond and third tn the first inning. | was over Pittsburg at the agme time the system is often — ome 2 when Wagner strode | enough to sew ag Gi od when it would be a good deal to the bat. In my estimation it waz " % ter had the man bese efowed to \reily the paychological moment of What the System tay in their natural pow the os Each team had won a) It was 0 glaring exmmey When as where | batt and th contest meant a | bringing im the 2 te abactet 4 club | hole lot to the winning club, ax it | club to try to prevent the o yeition from ; €8ve it @ one gn working margin scoring what, will the tleing |for the rest of the series workers in or winning run in the inte stages of Honus Had Done Nothing. oe treunk ails in the game, the play looks good. ‘But Wagner, upon whom the Pirates | is hit right at them, early in the content ft always look* | genended tn a great measure, had time to nat! the man et Rut playing them tae it 1s @ simple matter te. |through is mighty et like & frost to lay yourself open to a chance for the other club t we = 9 ie Sy Eaties See ene with the bludgeon. and should he fall down here, it might mean a certain of runa. i Example. lone of confidence that would tend |cept in cases when it we will may-there greatly to help the Tigers winning or | J and third, with it looked as though the Detroit | c+ ee me out, in the second inning, team wo be tickled to death to} eae. y neither side having « run. 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