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SHOWMAN
remember that once in Detroit they rang in a really dangerous man on him in a meet-all-comers show. The bell rang, Jeff walked out, shook hands, squared off and stiffened the guy with one punch. You hear a lot about one-punch knockouts, but they're really rarer than hens' teeth.
Jeff's fight with Sharkey at the Coney Island place was memorable not only for its own sake, but also because it was recorded in the movies in the first film ever taken under artificial light. The story of how the lights were so hot they burned both men bald-headed is well known. It isn't so well known that the cameras broke down in the middle of the last round and the end of the fight had to be taken over again some time later. Jeff was willing to run through it once more and so was Sharkey— but with a difference. Tom Sharkey was the gamest little man since Charley Mitchell. He'd fought the latter half of the mill with two broken ribs that nobody knew anything about till he was out of the ring— a savage ordeal with a fighter as punishing as Jeffries. And now Tom said sure he'd fight the man again, but he'd be damned if he'd reproduce that last round. Now he'd had a little rest, he'd like nothing better than three minutes more with Jeff, but, once they were in the ring, he'd fight all he knew regardless of what the movie-men wanted him to do. It took all the diplomacy I could muster to get him to see reason, and I still don't think he'd have consented to play up to Jeff if it hadn't been for those busted ribs. I saw in
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