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C.OI ua/c.WAS JAMES J. JEFFRIES_DOPED?By Thomae Garrett.'Undoubtedly thero la something wrong with Jim Jeffries, u is said around Los Angeles by. friends ol the ex-champion tliat he baa aged leu i'eiijB since the Fourth of Jury. Some claim that Jeff ««* doped; other* ocy be ha* heen suffering from nervous im»alruilon. brought on by orer-oxerllco in his training and oUioia i-io/esa ignorance.Here's what ouo correspondent says: Talked with the big fellow sewal times. Hanged If 1 don't think he is doped yet. Ho' wanted to Introduce me to a fella* nrd didn't know‘my nrtsne, though you know rwent through school wlih him and have Vcii wltf: hi,-- right along, isn't that rlrnnge? He |cok* all right. I could not see a mark on him. but, say his I'teer action* ale certainly funny to me. Just think' of it. ho couldn't ic-member my name.Hlnrc the' defeat of the former champion. many of hi* closest friends have expressed ala.w at his 'condition. Severn! San Kranclsccaus *ho have recently puld visits |0 Jeffries have also reinrned with weird laics of the antics of the on-tlmo wonderful lighting machine that wan. poerlew .lint Jnffrlen. but that Is bow an ngetl mtd bioken man since bis downfall ai the heads of Jack Johnson.11 Is to he sincerely hoped that I he alarm of Jeff's slt;*id friends is unfounded, though It I* knonn thot I he shock tho big fellow .mtalitvd through being rWealcl w** o caihev wvere one.W'bou Jqffilen' enlored ||,tt R«ifiring he did not |o..k like a ir.nn with .w bopt pH wn* well. ..Th»\ aionienf *1 .posed for Iho .introduction by Alt-gummier mil Jordan ho looked Ijkp pnomo old wolf, hertien nnd gray. H|L lle.vo did not have nny uf Iho old K'sb ie llkhi In It. his mnvnmrhts were uncertain. and ho appeared |lko some man gripped in the eioin'claws Of a nance. • '. . : ,While walling for Ihe Inlroflnctlbn. Jeffries r.pread hla legs r«r apart, forming a eaU of hraen. and now thnt Inn fight |» undent history and part ' or yes'.cnlay'i seven thounuad year*.aSiwihe/or* tho lirat blow-IWaa'filiwki When big jeffrla* iprflAa his log* to form a hruc*;:ir app*nrtd to' rildre than one'fan at-the riagelCo that ha ' did1 Ible to keep tfdrn falling.- He seetfled helyles* as oho gripped wild palsy. ' -At the' motuent, uetrly every fan clnsa to the ringside noticed how Jet-frlei posed. , *’ , :- Hugh McIntosh; .W*I0 was sitting near the;ilag a]dt,. said: Bless me, but that IB A. peculiar poao.Wbfli ails , JcffrlcsT*. Hundreds of . fenj .asked thcnisolrcs tho same quesUod, though none or them, saving and'excepting Mclntoah, gave verbal' ex-urcaalon to the doubts that neBaHud them.;. V.I--’-.One very fltfllnsnt sportsman of San Francltco glibly chaUed about the inddeots ol the Reno fight Now this man Is of the puodlt caste of pugilism. a high priest of the spori c.f tho glove, and -he know* boxing like an Indian knows his oriental philosophies. Said this »prmeiaan:H waa'.tlW fonalaet* thing I’ca-eror *cea, and Fvo watched senra of glove battles. When -Jcffrlee stood up for Introduction I wns amascd at his pone. 1 could not make out why—:- -------. •-—rThe etood Iho way hu did. .'Hf Momefl f as UncdrlalS ,aB n youbg;c»U.6tl btij ivga. -.£ «.9vlt;V./- v • ' iv ^-,—: -vl f'- I
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Ogden Standard
Ogden, Utah, US
Mon, Aug 01, 1910
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