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6 NEW STARS SHINE IN RENO'S SKIES "Big Tim" Sullivan and Frank Gotch Among Notables to Reach Fight City. CHAMPIONS MAKE MERRY Moving Picture Camera Records Re ception, In Which Every. Figure Is. Famous at Jeffries Camp Jack Root Has Theory. BY HARRY B. SMITH. RENO, Nev.. July 1. (Special.) It has com to bo merry-making time with the fighters, both of the champions with no stain attached to their tltjes. Work is at practically a standstill so far as any actual training Is concerned, and even had, the heavyweights any desire of keeping their noses to the weary grind, they would be sadly .hampered by those visitors of note who are commencing to flock into the Nevada metropolis and to a large extent monopolize' attention at the various resorts. Today's list of ar rivals Included by fa: the greatest num ber of notables since Reno was selected aa the place for holding the fight. With "Big Tim" Sullivan, of New York, the official stakeholder, and Frank Gotch, the champion wrestler of the world, as star liners, there Is a long list of men whose names are all well known In the ranks of professional sporta. Australian Party Arrives. The Australian aggregation, including lugh D. Mcintosh, the promoter; Tommy Bums, a little full In the face and heavy f body; Bill Lang, the Australian heavy-weight, and W. H. Corbett, of the Syd ney Referee, better known to the world-at-large by his pen name of Amateur, rolled in on a morning train from San Francisco. Abe Attell, the featherweight cham pion, as well as Sam Langford, the Bos ton colored fighter who aspires to be the middleweight title holder, and last, but not least. Jake Kilrain, famed years ago, and a man still imbued with the bright pros pects ahead for boxing, registered at the various hotels and Joined the throng that wilL go to make the occasion the most memorable in years for pugilistic his tory. Little Wonder There Is No Work. The illustrious newcomers scattering immediately to the camps to talk with the fighters and their trainers, it. is little wonder that no work of consequence was done. Johnson, if anything, took the day more seriously than the hope of the white race, for the black, after an afternoon that was spent in lounging around his quarters, announced that he would go out for a long run on the roads. It Is doubtful but for the moving-picture men, who wanted more pictures of Jeffries, whether the Californian would have been In action at all. And, in fact, his action did not amount to much, for, although he consented to get into the limelight as far as showing himself be fore the camera was concerned, there was no boxing. It had been whispered about at the noon hour that Jeffries and Corbett would spar before the picture machines but he declined to take any further chances with his hands and the film people had to ba contented with what they secured. Jeff Goes Fishing. So far as the peace of mind of the contestants Is concerned, it is probably Just as well that there is no work and that the two men are Inclined to relax. Jeffries, for example, took his reel and fishing rod out for a bit of sport in the morning, and when the crowd appeared In the afternoon, he was peacefully en gaged in a game of hearts in which sev eral of his friends and a couple of the newspaper men were participating. He hardly stirred as the camera men planted the tripods of their machines In the back yard of the Jeffries private establishment and it took all the persua sive powers of Jack Gleason and Sam iBerger to induce him to forsake the shade and pose while innumerable friends and acquaintances' passed in front of him and shook him by the hand. Names were secured by the score, names that are familiar to the reading public and the followers of the sporting game. . The picture that the film operators (wanted most of all was a galaxy of stars. With Jim Jeffries, Corbett and Sam BerRer standing aa a reception com mittee, the long list of honor was called and in rapid succession, champion and ex-champlons, personal friends, news paper writers and cartoonists known from ocean to ocean, passed the line and had themselves photographed in action. Jeff's Humor Good. Somebody remarked that the excite ment may not have been the best thing In the world for Jeffries, but he ap parently did not mind It In the least. If anything, he was in the best possible humor and joked with friends and photog raphers who were after him for more poses. At the Johnson camp it was also a day of rest and recreation and amusement, if you except the road work in the after noon. The black champion spent the fore noon on the veranda listening to his phonograph and occasionally dabbling in a game of dice which was always under way. "Battling" Nelson and Young Petei Jackson were among the visitors who showed up at the quarters for the after noon's session but the bulk of the talent spent their time with Jeffries. Jack Root has evolved a new line of argument and after considering the pros and cons, I don't know but what he is right. At all events, the man who lost the championship title to Marvin Hart has Jim Corbett as a strong supporter In what he terms the advanced science. Root Has Theory. Briefly speaking. Root says that a stomach blow, or a body blow delivered In the high altitude around Reno, is far more effective than the same punch de livered, say. In a ring pitched in San Francisco. "You watch this fight," he said this morning, "and you will see what I mean. I knew that I was beating Hart right along until he delivered a hard body punch and that stopped me. I was all right when I recovered a few moments later, but It struck me all in a heap. I have had a long talk with Jim Corbett about this very same thing and he agrees with me. "It Is hard to explain it, but I guess It is because the altitude affects our wind more or less when we have not been living in - the mountain country. However that may be, you watch out for body punches in this coming .fight." Whether the change will benefit John Bon or Jeffries, Root refused to say. , jqpjg y - N4d V - ,tt-v A J" i uiW uV' J Ar-V - JK ' V " V ' - ' s it ' I -m t j.. mu.m .i iii ii 11 1 i " 1 mm--i tgytVirO Sli4&V& -zr- smamMmmmm ' v 3 1" 11 J kat uj 1 i-'dxV v 11 nil A 3f yfe4lx. t i-! , J 1 1: J ih AX: itfe1 i 1 1 k i 1 IS Jack. Grant Makes Call Uon Colored Champion. JOHNSON IS CONFIDENT Fighter Declares He Will Win, but Does Not Urge His Friends to Bet Their Money on Him. Odds Not Ukely to Change. BY JACK GRANT. RENO, Nev., July 1. (Speical.) "Well, as I told The Oregonlan readers yester day, I paid a visit to the camp of Jack Johnson this morning. The champion has always been very friendly with me and today he was especially cordial. He in vited me up to his room and we had a long talk. Of course, Johnson knows how I feel about this fight and I haven't made any bones of it to him that I think Jeffries is the winner. For all that, the black is fair to me. He 6ald that he expected to win, but these were his very words: "If Jeffries beats me I will be the very first man to shake hands with him and I will bear him no malice. I never have had any malice as regards this fight, for It is all a matter of busi ness with me. Friend9 Not Asked to Bet. "So far as betting Is concerned, I am going to have a bet on myself, but I never ask my friends to bet on me. I don't want them to. bet on me If they think that I cannot win the fight." Then I left Johnson. I didn't see him stripped, but so far as I can see he is in excellent shape and it ought to be a great fight to watch. He told me that he was going on the road 1 nthe after noon, as he wants to keep down his weight and be- as right as possible. In the afternoon I went out to the Jeffries camp again with Dr. Loomis. I found the retired champion in the best possible spirits. He was playing cards when I arrived, but he greeted us pleas antly. At this stage of the game I have not expected to see him in such good spirits. When they called upon him to pose for the moving pictures he did so with good grace, and must have shaken hands with 100 people. He didn't box, and it is just as well that he didn't, for there is no use taking any chances with his hand. Camps Will Be Quiet. For the balance of the time it is going to be very quiet around the camps. Both men are naturally going to rest. They have trained good and hard for this fight and there is too much at stake for them to take any chances. However. -I will visit both of "the camps again and will keep myself posted on conditions. There was one thing I saw- at the Jeffries camp that I never expect -to see again. That was the sight of four holders of the heavyweight title lined up together for a picture. They were John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries and Tommy Burns. I guess that we will see. more sport ing celebrities here for this fight than any event of its kind that has ever taken place. The Australian contin gent arrived this morning and they are a fine looking lot. Frank Gotch also came in and will be one of the strongest Jeffries supporters. The beetlng remains at 10 to 6H. ac cording to the announcement of Tom Corbett, and that is where I expect the price will stand, although there may be a slight change in favor of Johnson. Tonight there is a wild rumor around that Jeffries will box tomorrow morning NEGRO CORDIAL THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. JULY 2, 1910. PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING COLORED CHAMPION with Sam Langford, but I doubt that very much. JACK DOES 12 MILES OX ROAD Big Black Shows Xo Traces of Bat tle Tension, but Trainers Do. JOHNSON'S TRAINING CAMP, Reno. Nev., July 1. Beyond 12 miles of light road work with a half dozen of his followers trailing at his heels, as usual. Jack Johnson did not work today. The champion was prepared to do a little sprinting for the picture men, but they did not close on him and he decided to do It on his own "hook. The trip was made late in the afternoon and John son walked most of the " way, which proved a boon to his followers. There were few visitors at Camp Johnson during the day. It was known in the city that the dusky fighter did not intend to do any work except at the dictation of the picture men, and when the latter departed for Camp Jeffries, the crowd tagged along. Johnson arose before 8 o'clock, but spent the day either in his rooms or loafing about the grounds with his trainers. A number of distinguished sporting men, who reached town dur ing the day, called on him, but there was little in sight to repay the ever vigilant war correspondents who trav eled out to his camp. Johnson was in his most sunny humor all day. He was repeatedly at tacked by his sparring partners and trainers in the playful mock assaults popular at the resort and never lost an opportunity to set things going on his own account. When asked, as he is about every hour of every day, how he felt, the champion's big black face beamed with amusement. "Just ' look me over;" he answered. "If I ever felt any better I would not know how to stand It. I think It would probably hurt me." Light road work and a little limber ing up in the gymnasium is the cham pion's plan of campaign for tomorrow and Sunday. What he will do Monday morning he has not said. None of his trainers was able to give any outline of his advance programme, as Johnson acts, as a rule, on the spur of the moment. The battle tension Is noticeable about the camp, that is, among the cham pion's followers, but Johnson displays not the least sign that he thinks of the near approach of the Fourth of July, except when some questioner compels him to turn his mind to it. PELAN'EY TO START FOR. RENO Veteran Trainer Will Be In John son's Corner, If Health Permits. OAKLAND, July 1. Billy Delaney will be in Johnson's corner July 4, if his physicians will permit him to act as the champion's second. This was the substance of a statement made to night by Delaney to the Associated Press. The veteran trainer will leave for Reno tomorrow night and will go at once to Johnson's camp. Delaney has been In ill health for some t'me and he said tonight that he may be too ill to second Johnson, but that he will be in the champion's corner unless prevented by actual physical disability. PICKPOCKETS WORK AT RENO "Dip" at Jeffries Camp Gets Tickets and $ 5 OX) From Showman. RENO, Nev.. July 1. (Special.) In the excitement and crowding that took place during the taking of the moving pictures at Jeffries camp today. Charles Waldron. a showman from New York, lost 1500 and two tickets for the big fight through the work of a pickpocket. Waldron felt the man going through his pockets, but there was so much noise at the time that the crook made his es cape. Jeffries expressed his sincere re gret to Waldron, when he heard of the showman's loss. The total exports of Spanish wines during the last year are officially estimated at $16,310,000. The change in taste of con sumer of Spanish wineg Is evidenced by the ateady decline in the exports of sherries and the incerase In roaiagas. AT RENO I JEFF GETS Abe Attell Gives Big Fellow Some Pointers About Jack. ' LEVEE IS HELD AT CAMP Fighters Just Arrived at Reno Mar vel at Splendid Condition of White Giant Gladiator Does Ho Training During Day. JEFFRIES' TRAINING CAMP, Moana Springs-, Nev., July 1. Jeffries held a levee today. He shook hands with some 200 men and nearly everyone of the lot bears a name known to the sporting world from one end of the country to the other. The thronging adherents of the white champion passed before him as he stood in front of the moving-picture machine and every smile or change of expression that crossed the big fellow's face was re corded on the film that will tell the introduction to the "battle of July 4." There were fighters, promoters, sporting writers and Just mere men in the procession that streamed between the eye of the camera and the pugilist. Among them John 'L. SullH-an, George Hartlng, Tommy Burns, Abe Attell, Sam Langford, Battling Nelson, Bill Lang and Hugh Mcintosh figured prominent ly. To each Jeffries extended his hand in greeting, and to each he accorded his rare smile. Jerr Talks With Abe. After the picture-taking was over, Jeffries strolled apart with Abe Attell. The two were In conference for an hour. Jeffries bent over the little fighter, listening intently to every word he uttered. It was- an Important talk for Jeffries. Abe Attell was In Jack O'Brien's corner when the latter met Jack Johnson In Philadelphia less than a year ago. The lightweight told the undefeated heavyweight today that O'Brien made Johnson "look foolish" on many occasions- during that fight. He said that Jeffries should use the same methods O'Brien employed against the black fighter. Attell illustrated with his own fists the blows he would have Jeffries deliver and Jeffries watched with his attention concen trated. After the talk Abe declared that he was utterly taken by surprise at Jef fries' appearance. He said that he had been misled by pictures of the former champion and before seeing that fighter in the flesh had thought Johnson a 2 to 1 favorite. "Now," Abe declared. "I think there is nothing to it but Jeffries." Tommy Burns, from whom Johnson took the championship, expressed as tonishment at Jeffries' appearance. "Take it from me," he said, "Johnson hasn't got a chance." Sam Langford had a few words to say on the subject. "Jeffries is the greatest of them all," he declared. "He's the only man I don't want to fight. I'd think it a cinch to get Into the ring with Jack Johnson tomorrow, but it would take a heap of money to get me up in front of Jeffries. I know he would knock me out. He's the only one' I'm afraid of. Johnson don't count In this game at all." Aside from his early-morning fishing trip and the levee, Jeffries did nothing today. He slept for some time after his return to camp and arose only when the picture men were ready. From that time on he chatted with his friends and greeted new arrivals without an indication of anything but the utmost good natur ADVICE COME TO REP IS E Novelist Would Rather Be in Fight City than Any Other Spot in World. NEVER BATTLE LIKE THIS Although Johnson Is Dusky Wonder, Says- Writer, His Grizzly White Opponent Is More Wonderful. Great Show Offered. (Continued From First Page.) about him. There are hints of it, true, when sudden fierce moments come upon him and his face and force become tigerish. But It is not genuine. He simulates it. Johnson is a play-actor, deliberately playing a part. He is not mastered by this tigerishness; he is manufacturing It. Back in that cool brain of his, he decides he needs this display of tiger ishness in his business, and so he dis plays it. Jack Genius for Instinct. Another of his remarkable attributes is an Instinct for a blow that Is posi tive genius. Locked In a clinch, body relaxed, his mind elsewhere, his gaze fixed on some one off to the side and outside of the ring, 'himself talking to that outsider say about the dis position of the contents of a certain suitcase at such a moment, his op ponent starts a blow for his Jaw, and he, without seeing or gauging or think ing, by some automatic divination, knows all about that blow, its force, weep and direction. He merely rolls his head, or pulls it back just far enough and not a fraction of an inch farther, and all the while, without a break, keeps up his conversation about the contents of that suitcase. A wonderful fighter, Indeed, Is John son, utterly unlike any other fighter, a type by himself. And against this man will stand Jim Jeffries, an even more re markable man, a grizzly giant, huge and rugged, of a type we are prone to believe was more common in other days when the world was young. And, de spite his hugeness and ruggedness, he is so well proportioned from heel to head that the combination Is startling. His Is a perfection of symmetry that is the fruit of the highest organic de velopment. Symmetry Is Modern. And, If science tells aright, we are justified in believing that no such sym metry obtained among those giants of the younger world. The human in those days was in the process of becoming; it was muscular efficiency minus beauty of form and line. This big, modern Jim Jeffries has both. So far as the boxing game is con cerned, the contest Monday next is well named, "the fight of the century." These two men. In a class by them selves so far as other fighters go, yet so radically different from each other as to have practically no salient char acteristics in common, will fight a bat tle in a setting like unto nothing the ring has ever displayed. For the first time, two undefeated heavyweight champions battle, and each goes up against the most dangerous and formid able man he has ever tackled. And they will fight in the presence of four other and earlier heavyweight cham pions. Again are all the records broken, for next Monday, in the ring and the arena, will be six men who have held the honor-of being world champion heavy weights. Think of it, Sullivan. Cor bett, Fitzsimmons, Burns, Jeffries and Johnson. From the standpoint of the sporting world, there has never been so "amazing a gathering. Almost every champion and ex-champlon of every class will be at the ringside. There will be the famous trainers and conditioners of athletes, men like Muldoon and Mur phy. There will be the athletes them selves, victors and leaders in all the era me a. And as for the noted nnd 1 notorious sport followers, they will all be here. Every figure of sportdom, from Billy Jordan, the well-beloved veteran announcer, down to the latest and youngest fight promoter, they will all be on the ground. And they will watch these two strangely diverse heavyweights battle, beside whom all other heavies look like middlewelghts. Both Cool and Terrible. Johnson, the fighting boxer, will go up against Jeffries, the boxing fighter. Both are cool, both are experienced, both are' terrible. It will not be a short fight. It will be a great fight. And so I may say again to all you men who love the game, have the price, and are within striking distance of Reno come. It is the fight of fights, the crowning fight of the whole ring, and perhaps the last great fight that will ever be held. Also, to you lovers of the manly art, who desire to see In flesh and blood the celebrities of the game, I say come. It would take years of traveling and fight following to see all the figures of sportdom that can be seen here In Reno in one day and no admission charged. I, for one, hope for a toothless old age, when nothing Is left but to mum ble reminiscences, and in that time one of my greatest joys will be to maunder over all the wonderful details of the great fight at Reno: "yes, sir: in 1910, at Reno, July the Fourth. I was there and sat by the ringside." HARTIXG WILIj BE TIMEKEEPER Selection of Veteran Official Is Satisfactory to Fighters. RENO, Nev., July 1. "When Jeffries and JohnBon spring to .their feet at the first tap of the gong Monday afternoon, the watch that will tick off the fateful seconds as the fight progresses- will be that of George F. Hartlng, whose history as a timekeeper dates back to fights when Jeffries and Johnson had never been heard of. For Hartlng, it will be tie greatest battle at which he has ever of ficiated and its number in his personal record book will be 1101. To the sporting world at large, the an nouncement that George Hartlng would hold the watch at any contest has been almost a bond that the fight was fair and square. His name recalls to those associated with the fighting game the picture of a quiet, modest, eminently business-like official against whose In tegrity as a ring official there has never been a breath of suspicion. Timekeeping at any fight is vitally important to both fighters and spectators. To Harting's appointment Jeffries and Johnson gave the same reply: "I am satisfied." George Hartlng came to this country from New Zealand. Peter Jackson, John son's forerunner for championship hon- DIC OF LONDON ' Hooligans Were There With Bells on 7 to 1 in favor of Vernon But its 100 to 1, that you will enthuse over the bargains offered, in our men's furnishing section to-day. Men's Fine Summer Wash Ties 18c or 3 for 50c Regular 25c ' SO dozen wash 4-in-hands in white, and all the new patterns. 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