Jeffries in His Training Quarters

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"This seven-minute film is a very long one for 1901, and the explanation is simple: it's a compilation of several films made of "The Boilermaker" in his training regimen at the height of his fame. We get to see Jeffries tossing a medicine ball about three times the size of the ones I knew in school, practicing his footwork, working one of those pulley-weight machines and sparring with his brother. If Jeffries is remembered by anyone except a few fight historians, it is because he was asked to come out of a six-year retirement to fight Jack Johnson., to retire the World Heavyweig..."