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BIG GRIZZLY PUTSTraining Camp Elated Over the Bursts of Speed Jeff Shows in Training.REFEREE LIST PRUNED MORE%Berger and Heavyweight Confer and Some Eastern Eligible* Go Under Ban.BEN LOMOND.^Cal., May 11.—1The Jet-fries training1 camp Is In high spirits tonight because In his workout today the retired champion showed all the vim hlB trainers could expect. He was to have resumed the gymnasium grind In the after* noon, but changed* his mind after lunch, and with several of the attaches of the camp went by automobile to Santa Cruz for a dip -In the surf.Beside^ working well with the gloves Jeffries was In a Jocular mood and playfully cuffed his seconds around during the brief periods of rest- In boxing the fighter rushed both Armstrong and Choynskl around at a merry pace, stepping •ftrir them furiously in good imitation of his old-time aggressiveness.After the boxing the big fellow triedthe violent abdominal exercise which heused to reduce his waist line while'travel-.lng with his show. ^He sat on a backlesschair with Ills feet on the rungs of another and leaned back until his head touched the floor and then arose rapidly to a sitting position.Accounts 1lt;(P Poor Work.Jeffries claims thdf the practice of this exercise for the first time since he left jthe road accounted for his poor boxing last Monday. He said (bat jjist before putting on the gloves last Monday he worked at the exercise for ten minutes in hia dressing room and when he was ready to box his stomach was so sore he could pot move without pam.Before Jeffries left for Santa Cruz and Sam Berger engaged in a.conference which caused some speculation! Later Berger admitted the list of Eastern ell gibles for referee had been cut down considerably. Aside from the list of Cali-fornla candidate* for tho position, Ber* ger is now willing to accept three Easterners—Buck Cornelius of Pittsburg, Charlie White of New York and Otto Kioto’of DenverMrs. Jeffries is recovering rapidly, bne paid her second visit to the gymnasium today.
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Wed, May 11, 1910
Page 16
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