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LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF A FAKE FIGHTJEFFRIES IS IN EARNEST ABOUT HIS BATTLE WITH BLACK CHAMPION.TAKES ELECTRIC TREATMENTDoctor Declares He Gave the Giant Boilermaker 4C0,CC0 Volts—Ketchel Dodges Fight with Papke—Frenchman Easy Mark for Wolgast.Thors are not a few people 5a the .country who believe—or at least say they believe—that Jim Jewries and .lack Johnson never will meet in the i»:.g. Prize fighting has not been the cleanest sport in days gone by. and there have been so many evidences of rank faking that there always is talk of crookedness when a big match is arranged.If Johnson and Jeffries do step into the ring on July 4, out In California, it is a safe bet that both will make every effort to win. This is one match that can be figured to be on the square. Jeffries never would fix up a fake with his enemy the black man and Johnson would have everything to lose and nothing to gain by agree-1 ing to lay down to the giant boilermaker.The way in which Jeffries has gone ahead to get himself into condition is another argument that he means busi-The former champ'on never did like to start training. He liked to take things easy, but when he once got into action it was hard to keep him from doing too much.One of the first things Jef did was to have an operation performed on his nose. The big fellow's smeller has never been right since Bob Fitzsimmons planted one of his famous smashes on the boilermaker's probos.-cis. A bone was fractured and Jeffries found It difficult to breath. It was good enough for him while he was out of the game, but it wouldn't do in case of a battle, so he went on the surgeon's table and had it fixed.Then he found that his right arm was not fulfilling its part so he consulted another specialist. A muscle had contracted when Jeffries allowed the arm to cool too quickly after pitching a ball game at Los Angeles and it had to be lengthened. The specialist said electricity would fix it. So Jeff let Dr. De Kraft hitch on some wires and shoot 400,000 volts through his massive anatomy. As he increa-sed the current the doctor turnBd to one of Jeff's friends and said;“Four hundred thousand volts.Jeff's friend meekly suggested to the doctor that there were six or seven people in New York who were inclined to pooh-pooh the Idea of Jeffries or any other man receiving 200,-000 votts, to sav nothing of twice that amount.“Thereby showing a lack of knowledge when it comes to electricity, the man of sparks replied. “At Sing Sing they send a man to his death in the electric chair with 1,900 volts, 1(3 ameres. Volts represent the unit oi speed, amperes the quantity of electricity, Sir. Jeffries there in the chair is receiving but six-tenths of one rail-liampere, the smallest fraction of what a man receives in the death chair at Sing Sing, but it is tearing through Jeffries' body with a speed ol 400,000 volts, so you'see it is plain that it is amperes and not voltage that kills.Now do you think a man who had no intention of fighting would have his nose cut up and his muscles straightened out with electricity? Hardly. Jeff means to fight and he means tc put Mr, Johnson in the discard if he can.
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Coshocton Daily Times
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 29, 1909
Page 6
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