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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 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 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 of Johnson and Jef¬ sons colors beyond any doubt But fries therefore tile ring experts are the wheels of nature were not made to busily figuring out how the coming turn backward and the man who rattle will be waged It is generally breaks the laws of nature must pay the conceded in the first place that the penalty scrap will not be short and decisive Jeffries has been in training for for Johnson will plan to prolong it as t many months and his handlers say he much as he can with the idea of tiring is tho Jeffries of old ready to put up Jeff out Unless Jeffries revolutionizes the greatest battle of Js career his general style ho will not adopt While the big fellow may appear to rushing tactics for he is too big and be in great pjj5lcj3l condition who heavy on his feet to hope to land ef- ¬ car fell whether he can put up the fective blows while under headway greatest battle of his career The But adopting crafty ring science al contest alone will answer that No ways keeping in mind that the ring is doubt Jeff has trained faithfully and twentyfour feet square and the that f worked very hard to attain his pres- ¬ fight can last fortyfive rounds if 4 ent good form but when he battles necessary it Is predicted that Johnson with Johnson that vitality which is will be a hard man to corner and beat absolutely necessary for any kind of down unless he loses his head an athletic contest may be missing In other words in my opinion it has been Impossible for Jeffries to bring JACK JOHNSONS RECORD himself to the shape he was in when 190L Rounds he gathered in his laurels Feb 25 1 Galveston 3 Does any ono realize what coming W John Lee Galveston 10 Charley back means It is like trying to re ¬ K Brooks Galveston 3 gain past years The prize ring has W Jack McCormick Galveston 7 yet to see W Jack McCormick Galveston 7 the first man come back K Horace Miles Galveston 3 When Corbett beat John L at New Or ¬ K George Lawler Galveston 10 leans Sullivan was trying to come June 25 D Klondyke Galveston 20 back Corbett led a merry life be ¬ 1M2 tween this time and his meeting with Jan 17 D Chicago 6 Fitz in Carson City He also tried to K Dan Murphy Waterbury 10 come back and ring history tells K Ed Johnson Galveston 4 you that he lost his title Is Jeff dif- ¬ March K Joe Kcnneti Oakland 4 ferent from other men Hardly It March 15K Joe Kennedy San Fran-¬ makes no difference whether one leads cisco 4 r the swift merry pace or takes easy W Bob White 15 life W Jim Scanlan 17 May 16K Jack Jeffries Los Angeles 5 JIM JEFFRIES RECORD K Klondyke Memphis 13 1 D Billy Stift Denver 10 lS96 June 20 D Hank Griffin Los Angeles 20 Rounds D Hank Griffin Los Angeles 15 July 2K O Dan Long San Francisco 2 W Pete Everett Victor Colo 23 1S 7 Oct 21 W Frank Childs Los Angeles 12 9K O T Van BuskIrk San Fran- ¬ Oct 31W George Gardner San Fran ¬ cisco 2 cisco 20 May 18 KO Henry Baker San Fran- ¬ Dec 5 W F Fred Russell Los An ¬ cisco 9 geles g July 16D Gus Ruhlin pan Francisco 20- 1903 t Nov 30D Joe ChoynskI San Francis- 5 Los Angeles 20 i co Feb W Dan E Martin 20 Feb 27 W Sam McVey Los Angeles 20 ists April 16 W Sandy Ferguson Boston 10 28 Feb W Los Angeles 4 May Joe Butler Philadelphia 3 March 22 UK W San Fran- ¬ July 31 N D Sandy Ferguson Phila ¬ cisco s delphia 6 April ¬ 22W Pete Everett San Francis- Oct 27W Sam McVey Los Angeles 20 co 3 Dec 11 W Sandy Ferguson Colma May San Francis- ¬ 6W It Cal a co 20 1904 Aug 5 W New York 10 1SW Feb 16N D Black Bill Philadelphia 6 June 9K O Coney April 22 K Sam McVey San Francisco 24 trQ- June Childs Chicago 6 Island 11 e1i rn t 2W Frank TtliliiI Oct IS K Den ¬ Nov 3 W Tom Sharkey Coney Island 25 Ed Martin Los An 1SOO geles 2 April 6K 0 Jack FInnegan Detroit 1 JEfFRIES AND JOHNSON IN 1S05 I tlOW WILL APPEAR RING May K O Jim Corbe t Coney Island 23 WHEN TIlE March 2S L San Fran- 1901 cisco 20 Sept 17 W Hank Griffin Los Angeles 4 April 25K Jim Jeffords Philadelphia 4 can wallop every as As Sharkey ¬ al- ¬ Sept 54 K O Joe Kennedy Oakland 2 bit hard a bett Ruhlln and Fitzsim a terrific right hand r to the Jaw May 3W Black Bill Philadelphia 4 general ¬ + t6 + t- +++++ ++ > + Nov 15 W Gus Ruhlln San Francisco 5 ring Johnson classes with the mons Now the trouble with these fel- 9tttt roraerawas 4 though he had not tried such a blow May 9K Walter Johnson Philadel- ¬ t 1902 best in the game It has been claimed lows is that they underestimate the in any of the preceding rounds In phia 3 July 25 K O Bob Fitzsimmons San that he has a yellow streak but no ability of Burns Langford Ketchel i COMPARATIVE RECORDS OF THE BIG ONES i meeting Jeffries it is figured that May 9N D Joe Jeannette Philadel ¬ Francisco 8 one has ever been able to prove it and Kaufman in attributing superior ¬ Johnson taking into consideration the phia 6 + 10 4 ¬ Dec L Jack Munroe Butte 4 Johnson has never defeated a first ity to Corbett Sharkey Ruhlin and 4 white of wind Juno 26N D Jack Munroe Philadel 1D03 mans possible lack will phia 6 1 class man In Burns and Ketchel he Fitzsimmons JOHNSON JEFFRIES 4 plan long by blocking Aug 14 K Jim San ¬ a fight and July Morris Philadelphia S 0 Corbett Fran beat a pair of midgets who Langford is a man today + 13K Harris cisco 10 are Just better than clinching Incessantly round after July 13D D Black Bill Philadelphia 6 1904 good middleweights and Kaufman Sharkey ever was He can punch Number of fights 71 Number of tights 20 3 round until Jeffries becomes tired July 18 W F Sandy Ferguson Chel- t Aug K K O Jack Munroe San Fran- ¬ was never a first class - harder and is a better boxer Burns Rounds fought 622 Rounds fought 184 Thtn the negro may begin to cut the sea 7 say 1 cisco 2 a number of fight experts These at his best would defeat Sharkey Won decisions 15 Won decisions 3 boilermaker to pieces just as Wolgast July 24N D Joe Grim Philadelphia 6 Exhibition Jeff 25 ¬ failed to stop Munroe- same fellows point with pride at tho Kaufman is the equal of Ruhlin and or stopped 31 Knockout or stopped 16 4 trimmed Battling Nelson In fact the Nov L F Joe Jeannette Philadel- In four rounds ¬ phia 8 class of men that Jeffries metCor the chances are that he could beat jjj Won oh a foul 2 2 g Johnson believers say the fight with Draws Dec 1 W Young Pete Jackson Balti- ¬ Gus with the latter at his best John- ¬ Draws 6 1 Jeffries will simply be a repetition of Won in 1 round more 3 12 X X + + son has a more effective defense than if Lost decision 1 Won in 2 rounds 4 > the WolgastNelson affair with the x x x has the none of Dec 2N D Joe Jeannette Phlladel Corbett strength that Knocked out or stopped 2 Won in 3 rounds 2 X negro playing the part of tho new delphla 6 victims possessed and can Jeffs hit f Lost on a foul 1 Won in 4 rounds 2 lightweight champion They declare s t MEASUREMENTS SHOWING HOW JOHNSON AND than any of 1905 harder them + No decisions 0 13 Won ln 6 rounds 2 d In short that If Johnson wins It will Jan 16N D Joe Jeannette New York I a 1 be or thirty 25 v JEFFRIES COMPARE 1 Johnson will enter the ring confident- Won in round Won In 8 rounds 1 4 after twentyfive rounds Jan K Bob Kerns Topeka Kan 1 2 2 and Jeffries will be gradually Joe 15 + of winning When they start you can 4 Won in rounds Won in 9 rounds 1 + that March 15W Jeannette Baltimore go broke that the negro will use all Won In 3 rounds 4 Won in 10 rounds 2 worn down to a helpless condition April 19K Black Bill Wllkesbarre 7 r 4 April 25 W Sam Langford Chelsea 15 p JEFFRIES his cleverness to prevent Jeff from Won in rounds 6 Won In 11 rounds 1 Y Few experts believe tho light will go JOHNSON + 6 June IS W Charlie Haghey Glouces ¬ landing the terrible right that has d> Won in rounds 1 Won in 20 rounds 1 4 the None of them can see the 6 1 Inches Height 6 limit ter 1 ft 3 inch wrecked so many men That means to Won In 6 3 Won In 23 rounds 1 + struggle in light there 17 Inches 4 that As is Sept 20 N D Joe Jeannette Philadel ¬ Neck t inches will ¬ 7 5 Jjjj v 1s that Johnson keep on the defen- Won in rounds Won In 25 rounds 1 much ill feeling between the princi- phia 6 50 inches Shoulders inches X 613 sive until he thinks Jeff has lost a lot Won in 8 rounds Draw in 20 rounds 2 < pals it is the prevailing opinion that Nov 8 W Jim Jeffords Lancaster 44 Inche Chest normal 43 Inches 4 a of his strength and is having trouble Won in 9 rounds 1 Jeffries wit try to bring about the ne ¬ Pa 6 yt 42 inches Chest deflated 42 Not counting first bout with Jeannette Inches X with his wind Whew Jack is satis- ¬ Won in 10 rounds 3 gros defeat as soon as possible real- ¬ Nov 26D Joe Portland 49 expanded 4S Jack Munroe at Butte an exhi + Inches Chest inches fied that he holds the upper hand he 5 Won in 11 rounds 1 izing that the longer the fight goes Me 10 38 inches A 37 bltron 4 Waist Inches y will change his tactics and try to beat Won In 12 rounds 3 t the worse It will bo tho 1907 42 inches > Hips f Average length of fights In for white race i 423 inches > Jeff down with those sharp uppercuts T Won in 13 rounds 1 It is admitted three hours in the Feb 19K Peter FeUx Sydney 1 25 Thigh rounds 91B that Lang 8 inches 263k inches and stinging jabs that will take the X Won in 14 rounds 1 ring would be terrible undertaking March 4W Bill Melbourne 17 or stopped X fuly Fltzslmmons Philadelphia 3 inches Knee inches big fellows energy away and leaVe Won in 15 rounds 7 Average for Jeffries end 7K 5 that because of his Sept A3 W Sailor Burke Bridgeport 6 I 4 17 inches inches him an easy mark his colored Lost in 2 rounds 1 > 4 present or i for i condition such a lapse of Umo Nov Jim Flynn San Francisco 11- 10 inches Ankle 11 inches t If 3 wounds 1 + 2K rival For comparison the coming + Lost would seriously handicap him 1W3 7 Inches Wrist 74 inches might be called iri i 1 t e- fight a long distance Lost rounds The rIght hand uppercut Is July SI 1C Ben Taylor England 8 12 Inches Forearm inches t 20 y Jack ormal 143 horse against a big draft horse Lost In rounds 1 r Dec 26 W Tommy Bums Sydney 11 13 flexed 15 1 TT Johnsons best punch Tho negro has r Inches Forearm Inches t 1809 Johnson has been steadily fighting Average length of fights in- 1 scored all of his knockouts 14 Inches Right upper arm normal t < with this 116 Inches 1 the past few years while Jeff has II rounds 8 0 Kind of wallop May 19N D Jack OBrien Philadel- r 15 inches Right upper arm flexed 17 inches t for 57 a and lias seldom failed been taking it easy There is little Average knockouts or stopped i to reach jioint phia 6 a upper arm no ti the of the Jaw when 30 143 inches Left maJ inches the negro gained con ¬ is Juno N D Tony Ross Plt burg 6 3 1G doubt that has 613 < ir t cutting lose J mapn has a sturdy left 4 15 1 inches Left upper arm flaed inches J siderably by his experience Sept 9N D Al Kaufman San Fran- ¬ in tle ft + 1 which Is o i vw ie ins attack de H- t A1 l A a hb l b f- F and cisco 4 10 v + t + TqT V Y 1 manybatUes Ince Jeff retired and f i4f tease but ever depends oa Stanley 4 X T I that Oct 18K Ketcad Coin U

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