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EEFRIES OF TO-DAY NOT OOODOOS “~ Bony roca GD FACE, be wanerete IDOOODODDOAGH® JEFFRIES SURELY GOING BACK AS GREAT FIGHTER Fellow Has Failed to Keep Promise Made When He Won the Championship, and His Fight with Munroe Likely ta Be His Last. BY ROBERT EDGREN. Tam champion of the world now. I have seen other champlons fall 4 dissipation, and I know the dangers that I have to look out for, BB 2 Sm young and strong, and! will take care of mysolf, I will hold the title 7 fl age makes me retire, or until some better man takes {t away from| Jockey Club's course this morning, The ” following are some of the best works of the morning That is the promise that James J. Jeffries made to the public on the TREP: ans geri {a LM, handily; morning after he whipped Robert Fitzsimmons and became the champion]! saiLon BOY A half mile ¥ “of the world, ’ easily; D, Carter, trainer, “ Y MISG BRYANT—A bait mile in 0.60, “Ss That was only five yoars ago, Jeffries has hardly had time to become easily; D. cipal tralner, Z ree-quartere he victim ot advanced age. Yet the greatest big fighter the world over | ana air, trainer, © daw is slipping down out of his fighting condition just as John L. Sullivan! KING PEPPBIL Three quarters in 1.19, fe end hundreds of others lesa tamous did before him. hit ROACH Ose and #2 eighth mijes 4 Jeffries, after spending several weeks in training, developed a sore Pf i in A8 ie fee, and callod off the match with Jack Munroe, This fight ts to go on| PET, PEC GReN funneee | @ome day in August, unless the champion falls down again, LENARKAS ne. mile } Tt was not a sore knec that kept Jeffries out of the ring, It was the} TOM COD—One fact that he found it impossble to get into shape for the battle with a Poung, strong fighter, and he waa unwilling to risk his title. _ The reason that Jeffries could not get into shape la the same that Groubled him while preparing for his fight with Corbett lest fall. : When the giant first came East, fresh {rom the training camp at Carson, Re was as rugged as a man could be. The great muscles that he developed by bard work in a boiler factory were just softening enough to be elastic. His body was as thin as @ greyhound’s, and his lungs had the power and mapacity of a blackemith’s bellows. He was full of energy, When training Re could not find time in the twenty-four hours to do all the work he felt TTx ele NICS GO O THE! BAD. “THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1904 SPORTS EDITED BY THE COU. BEA MOsPOOOTTOIOHOBOAIOGOHAL GRAVESEND TR WERE FAST TO-DAY (Apectal to The Bvening GRAVESEND, N, Y,, July %—More {deal conditions could not be desired videnoe dur- than those which were ing the training houre at the Brooklyn D. Carter ¢rainer. HIST—One mile in 1.47, galloping: D. Carter, trainer, W, Smith, trainer, sun a ues immer, oping; Uke doing. He ran on the road until his trainers thought he would drop bai ead. He boxed and did everything else that a bad done, NOT GET UP ENERGY. But now it ts a hard thing for Jeffries to get up energy enough to go fighter in training ever }om the road, to box, or to do any of the other stunts him to work down again into condition when the time comes ination to fight tt off. Jeffries is rapidly getting round and mighty muscles are becoming flabby because he ts too lazy to work that is necessary to keoping in shape. be last Aight with Vitasimmons in Ban Francisco the big champion “two days in the back rooms of a saloon on Post street drinking. of that time his bill tor champagne was $500, and he paid in drink all of that himsolf—he had a retinue of camp followers to| fs 9 “wine drinker.” Springs Billy Delaney has to watch the champion closely | ~ \ “4 Ae to Middletown. Then there is @ popping of corks sos ean fn Harbin, and for a day or two afterward Jett g Ike a bear with a sore head #2, Jefiries may be as rotund as Jobn L. Bullivan ‘OUND: OVER WEIGHT. that when he went to Harbin Springs, a couple of Weighed 265 pounds in his clothes. That ts over ‘He gota oo fat between periods of training that {t is a positive torture! {BLACK “fatness onces comes upon an athlete of any kind it takes un- | wre ft was dissipation that started Jeffries on the back tral | |Pery way from the fizz water. Now and thon Jeffries sneaks away | K continued for a few years, would retire any athlete | * raves, trainer s ROYAL SUMMONS—Three furlonga in E. Graves, mite in 061, 0.9, handil LAURA—A hi al DODO DOOIDDODIOCIGOIOGIEG: JEFF'S Torso WHEN HE WON HE OSED To s THIN BODIED AS A GRAYHOUND, ILS Werl4.) Meehan, tr ne mile iy ‘ie all out; tle in La handily; bagictd BELO ILA querger in 0,25, i@ad- E—Three-elghths in 0.87, pena DUKE OF ‘7,0 AS Bhicids, art DMERS—Five longs reay K “0 W. Bude in 0.60, 1, Is, trainer, trainer, easily; B NEIL AND M’GOVERN TO FIGHT ON JULY 27 All arrangements for the coming bout) for the matoh being arranged. They between Frankie Nell, ern, Weight, have finaliy been completed, of Philadelphia, on the night of July 2%. Nell and baal tether” were responsible Barring “acoldents" there will be no Kknoekout when Fitasimmons and Jack O'Brien meet for six rounds Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia Ball Park, The bout Is to be “@ sctentifo exhibi- tion," Mayor Weaver, who was com- pelled to let the match go on, declares that the men can box as much as they please, but that he will not allow them to damage each other. 4 the bout should be as Interesting as the late affairs between O'Brien and Mo- Coy and O'Brien and ans DICK WELLES 10 FACE FLAG AGAIN perry pikONcFour furlongs in| CINCINNATI, 0,, July 9.—On hia re V0 1-4, galloping, 8 Lawior,| turn from Laxington yesterday Rome train OKKMAN—Slx furlongs penny 5. Billings, ¥ handily; W. Timmon: i IED hy Three: Roh bs W. Bhleidi DAT pis ‘pa B in 147 trainer, A quarter in 0.25, trainer. An mile in 1.46 all! , trainer. Fair ole ae M air vreenng, COLE-Five-elghtha all out, F. Taylor Leer he ks TROUVILL t ~ AS ahi BERING Alt ax” ‘turton J ay W, Parrick, Mi WON. ok Williams, tra PLAIN Beven, i handily; G. Barbes, trainer. Three-quarters wede 200 pounds without much trouble. down z appearance of Jeffries as a great champfos. title the California giant has developed into a clever before rivals can outelass him, t eoudition at 220 When ho fought Fitssimmons first |"! DI heavy-welght fighter of this or probably any other! me inithe lighter division, Jeffries will have to “go back” *rayiere trainer Lge in 1.06, gallop: t) in Cc, ‘de rag Lares. —Five furion ne ftconss uarters jon, a.) furlongs in in 1.06, Sarter, Sines trainer, LI ne ile in In im, driv. Respess, owner of Dick Welles, holder of the world ‘coords at six furlongs jand @ mile !d that his famous colt a doing nicely, and would be ready to | wo to the post inside of a month, if nothing happened. The colt’s sping, which wae injured Inet May In a fall at Woodlawn, 0., and which has kept him out of train ever since, Is free from a}! soreneas now, and he Is toting 4, | Oxercise regularly Respess has Dick eral of the impor cided at Coney Island in September, and also for the Twin pial Mea Be Handiepa. CYCLING RECORD FOR J. F. MORAN oy in I | F. Moran by winning a four-cornered ri}, race at Charles River Park estab- miles, inclusive, horse porver motor following. nj for the twenty-five miles 18 1-68, The 1.18, | Stineon, Nat Butler and Lo lead at the was Mettling. in front until the Anish, second and Meitlir ‘The Ontarioe will play the Newburg team next Sunday at Ontario Field, | xavier, One Hundre@ and Forty-ninth street, clubs in the Church League have been Detween Seventh and Eighth avenues, | avited to enter. The boys will come together In @ six- Found bout before the National A. ©, CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 2.—James jw record from eleven to for four- His time Mm. | other contestants were Will Even without a terminating wallop | } fof the best handicap meets held tn the art, but In) Carr, Valentine and Bonhag Jn the dis- was passed by Moran, | | Wals, Peabody and Robertson In the the bantam-| went to Philadelphia a few nights ago, weight champion, and Hughey McOov-| the little South Brooklyn bantam-| saw Matchmaker McGuigan, accepted the latter's incentive for the fight and xed his signature to the articles of will battle for 70 per receipts, Toth lade have beeun training for the contest. and should enter the ring in the best of shape IF FITZ PUTS O'BRIEN | OUT, CALL IT ACCIDENT ae there was an accident, and O'Brien got knocked hout, ‘ow could I ‘elp it?" asks Mr. Fitzsimmons. Judging from the O'Brien-Ryan fignt | O'Brien would not hesitate for a second to roms” Lanky Bob if the chance red and send him to dream- land Knockout Worth Money. | {a a business man, trained on | te oMee methods. It woul a fow thousands to have nit Bob Fitasiminons” writ. his record. He would swing his right and chance side-stepping the ten: | der-hearted Mayor afterward, CHICAGO MEN IN [HERR A BIG AUTO AUN Two members of the Chicago Auto- jobile Club, A, @. Schmidt and "Jerry" E are making elaborate arranges, ments to establish a new record from Chicago to New York next month, H. 5. Michaels, of Chicago, has ar- rived In New York after a trip over the route to arrange details, Bert Holcomb made the 1.177 miles between the two cities In sixty-seven hours last September, and Mr. Ellis thinks he can do it In fifty-five hours. The route has en divided Into ten sections, and the I pick up a new guide’ for each at order not to sacrifice time by lost pl etl Riot road, as Holeomb did. COLUMBUS KNIGHTS BlG FIELD OAY From present indications the open athletic meet of the Knights of Colum-! bus, to by 1d at Monteverde’s Grand Street Park next Saturday, will be one| elty In some time. The association has been fortunate ough to secure the entries of such ring performers as Cohn, Joyoa and Hillman, Prinstein, tance events. sprints, A one-mile relay race, open to the Chureh Athletic League, has been added to the card, The Grace, St. George, 8t. Bartholomew and other Entries hen Hhag open be made wit Dieges, | Comins Ho, £3 one street, or ye ‘Waters, ANOTHER GAME SAME JEFFRIES WHO BEAT FITZSIMMONS AND WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP TOO CHIGIOS* CHOEOQODDGHOOOGHOOGGOSGOGS FOR HIGHLANDERS. ( MILE AND A HALE (Spectal to The Evening World.) SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N, ¥,, July ®. ‘The weather ewas perfect and the track in crack condition at the course this morning during the galloping hours, The J. B, Widener and Mr, Cotton strings of steeplechasers pulled out for Saratoga during the morning. The fea- ture of the exercises was a mile and a half gallop of the Goughacre Btable Bryn Mawr, who In preparation for his appearance In the Brighton Derby at & nile and @ half, to be dectded on Sat inday, was sent the distance by Traine: W. F, Presgrave as follows: Furlon 18; quarter, 0.95; three furlongs, 0.98 1-5; half, 0.62 2-6; five furlangs, 1.06; six furlongs, 1.19 1.83 2-6; mile, 14 4-6; mi ter, 2.12 3-6; mile and a half, 2.48, hand> bate Bean A “ Pe ee esnamenee a ‘ /OAIN MAN SENT ‘FIRST RUNNING OF THE — GREATEST TURF PRIZE What Will Ultimately Be the Most Magnificent Stake Race, from a Standpoint of Money Value, Down to Be Run at Saratoga. cracks of the Duryea string; Bevis 4 What will ultimately be the most Gray and Wild irishmu adden's magnificent stake race in the world, best; Britisher, John A, Dr Ss from @ monetary point of view, will| Jonquil, Tradition, rane ve raced for at Saratoga this season we Lf gl gg thes ear esider others a m for the first time, This stake is In| yelp as high class aa these, The ts Infancy, #0 to speak. rresent value of the stake is santos, “# Notwithstanding that it was new and twenty subscriptions at there being oh rot thoroughly understood by owners, he returns are most encouraging to the Saratoga Association, which will have to add only $9,000 of thereabouts to bring the stake up to its guaran- teed value of $60,000, | Next year this stake will FOR YOUR STOMACH NERVES and BRAIN probably ily. be worth $75,000, and in future years It SMOKE LORD OF THE VALE—One mile and) may go as high as $10,00, making i aif tong tn 2.08, handily; A. J.) jt the most magnificent money prise ‘ ever raced for by thoroughbreds. * a c r id rter yee ma 2 ae ye Pe Stctalimin,| Fancy a man with « promising foal ““ eine or yearling making an entry to this MBAOEESy CIGARS * lake BACO~One. pi oe Bnet gallop- ag to be run years later, Fancy » MeCorm rainer, iis emotions when, after having suo- | TAs8Ix, furlongs in 18 handily; | ovsstully carried his horee through Tobacco Made Harmless acne DS ere tal! years, he finally sees a chance Calor U. 8. Patonted Process No, 1T270T. 0541-2, handily; R, ‘Tucker, trainer, we ® anne Ws be bay te is sence ina pool area AUDIENCE—Four furlongs in 0.4, ene tn Ht _ heart, stomaci handily; R, Tucker, tral man who will own the winner of thie [mircom "* h oF throat THIR HIRD—Four furlongs in 0.64,|"8e when he sees his horse flashing ‘The usual effects of Ni hand R. Tucker, tralner. by the jud, in front of the field, J@ innocuous without istarieg the te a ving RATER— Four furlongs in| He will live years in the few seconds fm *fance. aroma o $112 easily: F. Reagan, trainer. OR A Hive furlongs in 1061-2 that elapse before the red number goes Ahanilly: Murphy. ‘trainer up, Tf the winner of such @ race was Hi iGe size, $8.50 ‘ Siopive Hiclonan ‘in’ 1081+] ever dlequvalited for fouling or tor other " ae Pee Pour furlongs in 46 falmal Gg PL CE bhp ei gins godt Four uriongw, n 051, woul a in droppi: id wt Perri handily: A. J. Joyner, trainer. Gd a Dl ee ee a. Hotels te ate Oren! JOCUND—One mile in 1.43, gaboping; Finoeh Wiahard, trainer. D.—-One-quarter in 0961-3, J. Fitzsimmons, trainer. MAAN gS-O4 furlongs | 19, handi- —_ yi B Barry | Wood, | train HEAMIS IN THE GREAT REPUBLIC According to Edward R. Thomas, Hermls will be Waterboy's chief rival ir the Great Republic, and Will Shields ls pointing the great, eheatnut for it a Here is Lop weigat in the Saratoga fandicap, but Mr, lhomas is not alto- ether sire that the Herm: colt can ro fot ready for i. No effort wiil be made to have him start on the openin, day of the meeting at the Springs if either Mr. ‘homas or Alex siields make uo thelr minds that hig ptarttng might injure his Great epublic chances. The Great Republic is the race they Racers, desire to win. The_ pubite ould pariiculerly ike to see Hermis face the barrier in the Saratoy They want to see the little tried again, under scale weil ht oyer a distance of ground. H's Brighton Cup Victory last year did not aitogether sat- the publi speed over a aii in the cup race he easily whip) Yaingertiad who only a short fore established at Morris Park new record for one le and three-quartirs, end John E. Madden, the black oxt's trainer, Was sanguine of success. KEEP UNIFORMS CLEAX. President Pulliam recently sent out letters to the club-owners asking that more care be taken to keep the players’ Uniforms elean and presentab! doing all he can to make the pleasing to the pubic as he c FEF ERLE s.OPKING | You can’t take a gas stove into your camp, Hopkins has a stove —blue flame—just like gas—burns kerosene— easy to carry.— Yacnt Suppiies—Pishit Primus O11 Burner, ‘ooking. Oathie or 6 Sn for Catalog of Tack eave ‘ores, Clube, Hotels and dealers gouen (4B INTER-STATE claaR Alse AUSTIN Nici ee Ce 4 Race a Big Gamble. The gonditions of this race make ii a sreat Samvle for breeders and own The total cost to @ man whu entry can be started at @ total coi be atl i | “E Men Cured by Me My ne i The prominent Sendida tee b great stake, which will on Saturday, Aug, 6, ar Waterboy, brvn Mawr, Whorler, Mer vf Knight . Grey Friar, ‘Delhi, ‘obo} rae, Hermis and The Picket, It should be & great race, but it will De @ better ‘ace in after years. This great stake creation of late William c. itney, It was a pity that he should not vilved to see ite first runnh Anot t stake at Sara which ‘will run on Aug. 1, ia the Hopeful, for ‘wo-) ear: olds, at six fur. longs, This is th second Tunaing of the Hopeful qr tw rth li you cnet ane cured aa, Publes Wie * ; pita ‘all mig ie. something iy $32,000, ‘Thie af tke alae is bound to increase In value each season, for it ls one of the richest Mi i ae Thetlee ara events of the season for the young: Snectall at, For A Spey! sters. Many of the crack younsgters Dr,L,R. Williams ‘$30'9345* engaged this event, and it} York. 4 not have ives to see its The Saratoga Special. fo oss new York's ‘an fn om ad iN the meeting. #0 by! i ened. In / | oida te ikely. to furnish the evant’ of barn: as ORTING. Bri seabaek ents To-Morrow, Incieding ‘tl, 500 DULY STAKES. one ges atte tr uxai ube

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