James Jeffries training clips and more

Yes Jeffries had a huge," private collection of film ",which on his death he bequeathed to his most ardent and fanatical fan.
"Johnson maybe a fine fighter,he may be better than the whole Japanese Army, but I will never fight him.When I lose my title it will be to a white man,a man of my own race.I will never take a chance on losing my title to a black man".
You can't say he didn't tell the world!

 

You’re confusing me all I was sharing is that when I was with Jeffy he showed me film of Wills fighting someone and told me he was a fan of Benny Leonard who he called the best boxer

 

Jeffries told me himself his left hook was a slap after it was damaged against Sharkey he says he used the bottom of his palm and aimed below the ear he called it the “Sharkey slap” in tribute

 

I met Johnson and I find your opinion of him funny do you think Johnson was so bad a boxer? Every boxer of his era disagrees and all the guys just after it the film you have access to isn’t close to vintage Johnson his best work didn’t get recorded

 

He kind of built the case to hang himself really.

If he had come up with some sort of BS excuse, like most of the fighters who drew the color bar, then there would always be that element of doubt.

As it is he made our task very simple.

 

Got to give him credit for being honest and up front about it.

 

I know you're a fan of Big Jeff in particular. Thought you might like this if you haven't seen it already. An old silent film called KID SPEED 1924. Its stars Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy fame. Jeff (about 49 yo) makes an appearance at 7:58 as the local Smithy (channeling Old Bob Fitz perhaps?, ha). Anyway, nice curio footage.

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There are a lot of YouTube treatments on the Johnson vs Jeffries fight. I like this one narrated by Harry Carpenter and Reg Gutteridge. The footage is very clear, and it contains less often seen footage of Johnson tossing the medicine ball and sparring (the sparring partner is George Cotton, I think). Definitely seeing a nice jab there from Lil Arthur.

Here is a still photo of Jack squaring off with George Cotton.

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Finally, this one doesn't present easily when searching on Johnson but there are some awesome, less often seen clips included - the best part of 45 minutes worth on Johnson with a bit of Jeffries in there also. You might want to turn the sound down at the start, there's a god-awful machine gun like - sound that is akin to Chinese water torture if left on. It also contains the most complete version of the War Bond Rally exhibition footage that I've ever seen. Though the body was well aged by then, Johnson still had that mischievous, youthful glint in his eyes.

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Mr Celebrity 1940, go to 40:20

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For anybody that is interested, Jeffries met only one French fighter, Leon Albert, a savant boxer. Havent found a fight report yet but Leon was unsuccesful! The Lablahe fight record is hillarious, it comes from a bad OCR event.

 

Rest assured, always interested. Love talking all things re the Old Timers!