BOTH MEN IN SPLENDID FORM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5

BOTH MEN IN SPLENDID FORM.

JEFFRIES SATISFIED. "LAST BIG TIGHT IN AMERICA." Reno, June 28. Sullivan, Jeffries, and Corbett, who recently felt out, have become reconciled. The fighters arc training steadily, and are in splendid condition. Jeffries will stop active training on Thursday next, and rest for the last three days before the fight. Until then ho will box regularly and do light gymnasium work. He is satisfied with his condition, and says he never felt better for a fight. Ho is ready for anything, and very confident. Johnson only indulges in light boxing with Eaufmann, Monaghan, and Mills. Sullivan has watched Johnson at work, but is not communicative regarding tho negro. Ho' says Jeffries is fit and that Johnson idles too much. 'The coloured man will close his training work on Saturday next. Bill Delaney, Jeffrics's old. trainer, who is handling Johnson, is pleased with the negro. Ho will bo in Johnson's corner during the fight. Tho State police are assembling to protect the fighters against any outbreak on account of race hatred. . Tho interest in tho coming contest is intense. Old fight-followers agree that this will be tho last big fight in America. Betting is brisk, with tho odds on Jeffries, who is favourite.

DETERMINATION VERSUS BRAVADO. CORRESPONDENT'S IMPRESSION. London, Juno 23. In conversation with tho "Daily Mail's" correspondent, Jeffries __ remarked:—"For a year I have devoted every minute to fitting myself for this fight." In Jeffries's camp, says tho correspondent, there is an atmosphere of determination; Johnson's is like a light opera scene. Banjos are playing at ail hours, and roulette wheels aro whirring. His box.'ng is far fiercer than that of Jeffrie;-. Johnson laughs and jokes all day lons.