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i f < > > < i D 1 orti l World po ig The5I Who Will WearUeavyweight Crown Jeff or Johnson By TOMMY CLARK for a long time Either method takes latter has naturally lost power No and often By this method he might fHo iM + + N doubt HB all barbing topic tn tho away tho strength vitality and agility left has trained hard for the land one of his terrific rib smashers IB mill and la able to negro JOHN L8 53 PURSE AND sporting world just now is the needed for a long battle Jeffries FFR wrestle for an hour and put the out but if the battle now in his thirtysixth year and s SAN with his helper still he has done very is prolonged Jeffs chances of winning STAKES OF TODAY r approaching forty fVo sound HOW l ovary Intelligent chap who follows ath- ¬ if little one of the most important will go glimmering T battle between sack Johnson letics knows it is impossible for any things for a man like Jeff who has When he runs up against Johnson ¬ SullivanDonaldson Cincin ¬ and Jim Jeffries As was to bo ex- athloto at thirty five to bo Within 25 been so long out pf the game He may the white man will find that the negro still nati 53 pected Joffrlee is the favorite in the per cent of his form at twentyfour JOHNSON PLAN TO FIGHT have the punch and strength but heavier and stronger than Oorbett JeffriesJohnson Frisco 1QLOOQ X betting at odds of 10 to 7 but this in yearn of ago For any one to claim his hitting eye his Judgment of dis- ¬ Fltzslmmons or Sharkey is one of JeffriesJohnson moring plc T reality Is moro a question of sentiment that off is as physically fit today as i tance may perhaps be lacking It is the most scientific men he has ever turea estimated 000 p yearns ago IB + +e + too bad big cool unbiased judgment Mon ho was ten rubbish In te ta t a that the fellow did not tackled If Johnson takes his time ha FIVE LARGEST PURSES than words may appear to bo l S have an ring fight down possesses J a close study of prizefights other Jeff in ey JACK JOHNSO- y JIM JEFFRIES actual under his will wear Jeff for he NelsonGans Goldfield J597I5 who make grand shape but to be candid ho has bolt One or two contests of the real a wonderful defense and is never in a Jeffries Bnarkey it not so prono to risk Coney Is and their form are passed the zenith of his career NI expeotto bo able to go a long I will Uok Jaofe Johnson anftI article would do more to bring theso hurry Afl Johnson is not a rusher land 67000 man who X ¬ f t their dollars on tho white Negro at His Zenith distance to wear Jeffries down will lick him quick dont In- back his hitting eye and judgment of and wastes very few punches how can Fltzslmmons Jeffries Coney T has boon out of the game as long rs without running any dangerous tend to atailc when meet the distance than months of boxing at Jeffrles with tho old lack of aggres- ¬ Island 63000 T How about Johnson 1 The negro is I CorbettJeffries Ban Jeft Then too they realize that in chances and then to go in and negro In the ring I dont say this the training camp siveness stop him quickly If the Frauds A now at the height of his career Ho enough to co 62000 he will taco a strong husky win I am not foolisn some- Hard fighting fight goes more than twelve rounds CorbettMcCoy Johnson has been fighting steadily ever pinto e just for the sake of saying round after sound i New york 57000 t man think that Jeffries will be as iy the only way man can find Johnson will stand off and cut Jeff to clever and hard hitting he became a pugilist Between fights thing but btcatti its the gospel a how muoh loftS r as Burns or Ketchel for I know ¬ pieces with his long and if Jeff titS sJt ti1of While the forthcoming fight is in he may be a high liver but he has truth Johnson nevej saw the day stamina ha possesses whether his hit- let he will prove much harder to beat ting eye is good of oomes boring in to close quarters the many respects the most important ring never been out of condition Johnson- looking he could me He may be a br his judgment He may como back fit and beat distance poor Jeffries has not taken negro will wallop him with the same hand to deliver tho sleep producing battle that has ever been held in this is as perfect a pecimen of physical strong find fairly good fighter any but I think youll that I admit that part in a real right since he defeated terrific blow that put Ketchel out wallop country no fight of importance Has manhood as one could wish to see will not be able to stand the I he Hft may have been able to beat Jack Munroe Aug 26 1004 and biggest man physical- ¬ Johnson Is not a swinger He be ¬ drawn forth so much unfavorable Many fight experts refuse to give not show the old there Johnson is the strain and will come good men who were any ¬ has been no fpr strug- ¬ clev- ¬ lieves that swings waste ones energy criticism From one angle looks far Johnson anything but a slim chance i chance such a ly Jeffries has ever met and the it speed twenty forty gle quarters ¬ and are too apparent to a sharp eyed for dollars a with Jeffries through prejudice against where from to at his training no mat erest He ie not an aggressive slugger more like a battle than I intend to let him do all the ter how hard his sparring partners to man in the antagonist Those who have made fight title Tho spirit of com ¬ the colored man Some say he cant to pounds lighter than he but just who rushes in finish a a for a fighting at tho start for I want try to animosity on contrary is study of Johnson In the ring say that mercialism so pervades the whole hit he always backs up he has not the up a I wait until he gets into the ring hit him The bitter first round but tho he size him for few rounds tho merciless slugging And the of cool headed crafty patient boxer while he possesses a knockout blow in scheme that many of the more sus- ¬ punch and is always stalling and a want to be sure about his real with a man who is twenty pound test a ¬ courage are always lacking in phenomenal his right hand uppercut he is averse picious have cried Fake and go so few more things The more conserva- I condition before take a chance heavier than he Is and a man who such with a defense and a I trial affairs at the training camp So wallop In the to taking a chance with this punch un ¬ as to say will be a picture tive critics concede that Johnson Is find can can has beaten bettor men than John hard either hand when far that it If I I outbox him and Jeffries will have to depend largely on proper opening is offered til he finds the proper opening Ho fight and perhaps a prizefight later one of the greatest pugilists that ever find the proper opening I think I nor ever dreamed ot being Thats ¬ I his physical condition has been known to light many rounds This talk is nearly all rubbish Thera donned a mitt As clever as Jim Cor can than Fitzslm why I say am going to beat when he faces Johnson is not a believer in taking hit him harder I Jack the negro without using the right hand at all ex¬ Is no such thing as fake attached to bett was in his palmy days Johnson is mons did and that means hell go Johnson and going to best him i chances He is strictly a waiter He cept I go to block the other mans assaults big nor be a fight solely just a the bit better J- quick Jeffs best chance to while to after neverhits from the shoulder unless he the mill will it down and In that way he has completely ¬ be Fitzsimmons was considered the t Johnson just as soon as the bell rings sees a vulnerable spot unprotected He dis for the pictures The battle will 1 dR + + a I6 + + t 1 +++ + ++++++ + i armed his opponents by hardest hitter but the colored man br t H + + i the latters midsection early knocked out Ketchel punch convincing fought on its merits and the best man t with 009 them that his right hand is a About the commercial side ando useless will win weapon Then gradually forcing ¬ big can blame a ri of the mill who the val to regard his right appre ¬ get they can without men for trying to all out hension Johnson has suddenly let fly of the scrap Perhaps never again the punch straight to the vital spot t Will such a large purse be offered for with crushing force a pugilistic battle Five years ago Jeffries on the other hand has a J were ono to suggest that any two pu ¬ style that is fighting purse Just the opposite His gilists would be for a best blow is a left hook or half swing of 101000 they would be Informed delivered as an antagonist insanity expert was needed rushes in that an while he has beaten ¬ purse highest numerous chal Not alone is the the ever lengers with tremendous body blows put up for a fight but it is expected driven home gate with his right hand that the receipts will be a record Johnson has a good defense but he is breaker and it is also fgured that over not afraid to take a punch on the head a million dollars will be bet on the or in the stomach His one weak point mill is lack of aggressiveness for he is not Best Men of Their Races a rusher and is deliberate in his foot ¬ The fight promises to be one of the work He prefers to set himself be ¬ greatest if not the greatest in the his ¬ fore cutting loose a punch and in that I tory of the prize ring Johnson and way he can get all kinds of power into Jeffries represent the best fighters of his blows He likes to have a man their races and the result will depend come to him and mix It up at close on the matter of condition If Jeffries quarters where his great bulk and could enter the ring with the strength stamina count and skill that characterized his fighting Having this line on the respective before he retired he would Ipwer John ¬ fighting tactics
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