Word: jeffriesism
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When James Jackson Jeffries was in his prime, no man in the world could stand against him. His father was a street-corner evangelist, his mother a peaceful Bible-reading woman, but Big Jim was born for combat. At 16, he was working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles...
Big Jim ran 14 miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom...
Overnight, Jim Jeffries became the first of a series of "white hopes," toward whom the prizefight gentry looked to uphold the "superiority of the Caucasian race."
Jeffries was far from eager; he had quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped...
Jack Avis, John Atherton, Bill Bliss, Link Boyden, Ed Brainard, Larry Brownell, Warren Clark, Clem Despard, Phil DuBois, Dugald Fletcher, Bill Geertsema, George Gifford, Monty Goodale, Tom Hagoort, Lee Henderson, Charley Higginson, Frank Huntington, Ben Jeffries, George Kinnel, Lefty Leftkowitz, and Steve Lincoln.