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I i 8 Tim MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, JTOE SO. 191Q. FANS CATCH JEFF PHOTOGRAPHS PROM RENO SHOWING FIGHTERS IN TRAINING AND NOTABLE RECONCILIATION ' SCENE. JEFF CHILLY HERO m I, AT LAST Ex-Champion Shrinks From Adulation, Says London. Governor Dickerson Sees Big Fellow Box, and Compares Two Great Fighters. JOHNSON GREAT CONTRAST WORKING MOVING PICTURES TAKEN "White Man , Is in Unusual Good Humor, and lOOO Persons Watch Him In Rlng--Rickard Catches Arena 'Watchmen Asleep. RENO. Xev, June 29. James J. ' Jef fries, the undefeated, held the center of the stage today against all comers. After tricking the. public out of a chance to witness his Monday workout and refus ing to work at all on Tuesday, he went Into action against his sparring partners late today with Governor Oickerson. of Nevada, as guest of honor and the whole sportins fraternity now gathered here as eye witnesses. There were 1000 specta tors at the bout, not including the moving-picture machine, which means per haps millions. Theexodus from town began shortly after noon. "Word of Jeffries' intention to go to work was "well noised abroad and by the time th9 show at Moan a had started the hotels and streets of the "city had been deserted by the fight-enthused throngs which have made them lively for a week past. Crowd Surrounds King. By the time Jeffries slipped through the ropes and began a short spell of gymnasium work for the benefit of the picture machine, there was hardly room ; enough loft for him to operate. The crowd almost invaded the ring itself In Its eagerness to see him at work. A solid wall of spectators reached around . the platform and others were perched everywhere, peering at the white giant. -. In all. Jeffries did six rounds of box- .. Ing, two with Joe Choynski, two with "Brother Jack," and two with Sam Berger. Jeffries appeared to be in high spirits. He went through his work with lots of snap and go, but the boxing was not unusually fast or exciting. Only in the last go with Berger did the "'undefeated" speed vp. He banged away at Sam in a real old knockdows and drago fashion during the first round. Bam came back hard, giving Jeffries the benefit of every blow he knew. It was too much for Sam, however, and in the second round, Jeffries was compelled to slack up to keep from putting his man ager down and out. The moving-picture men were busy at Jeffries' camp throughout the afternoon. Long before the challenger was ready to get Into the ring for his promised work out the machine had been set up and views of everything around the camp were recorded. War Correspondents Snapped. The solid rank of war correspondents was swept by the unwinking eye of the mechanism; then it moved on surveying the hotel porch where groups sat about the tables imbibing long, cooling drinks. circled the strolling squads of sightseers and took careful note of every camp at tendant, finally winding up with a glance ot Jeffries' cottage, in front of which a score or more friends were gathered, the challenger looming up like a giant among the men of ordinary size about .him. With ;thls preliminary work accom plished, the machine was quickly dis mounted and set up again in a position which gave it command of the ring. This done, the thronging crowd which had Jammed and squeezed itself into every available nook from which the can vas square could be seen, gazed expect antly at the cottage, awaiting the com ing of the "great undefeated." As the crowd waited an automobile swung into the grounds bearing Governor , Dickerson, Captain Cox. of the state po 'lice, and Warden Maxwell, of the State Penitentiary. It stopped before Jeffries' cottage and the fighter came forward, clasping hands with the Governor as the latter climbed out of the machine. The four chatted for several minutes, Jeffries smiling broadly at various sallies toy the visitors, then turning into the cot tage to prepare for work. A few moments later he stepped through the ropes, clad In his blue ring costume, and the picture machine began to buzz. Paying not the slightest atten tion to the throng of nearly a thousand persons grouped about him, Jeffries began rope skipping. From that he turned to the punching bag, hammering away with his huge arms until the air rang with the blows. Shadow boxing came next and the giant danced about the ring easily, almost gracefully, con sidering hia enormous size. .Choynski First Vp. The perspiration was coming freely when he stopped and, dropping his dumb bells, he held out his hands for the big gloves. As soon as they were fastened Joe Choynski stepped forward and the long-expected boxing bout was under way. The bouts with Choynski, "Brother Jack" and Berger came in quick succes sion and until they were over not a man had removed his eyes from the ring. When time was called on the last round the crowd surged up on the platform eager to secure a near view of the giant pugilist. Jeff did not seem to resent the invasion, and before he departed for his rubbing room, engaged in a playful scuffle with one of his particular friends who had pressed forward. It was hugely enjoyed by the throng. In preparation for the battle of July 4, J Jeffries recently ordered a big sunshade built, which is to protect him from. Old Sol's ardent advances between the rounds. The shade resembles a huge palm-leaf fan, four and a half feet In diameter. It will be Interposed between the resting gladiator and the sun's rays as he lolls in his corner, and it will be the duty of some member of his staff to hold It there until the gong calls him back to his work. The shade was com pleted and delivered at the camp today and proved highly satisfactory to the fighter, who had it tried out at once. Johnson, it is said, will be similarly equipped. ' True to his promise. Jack Johnson ap peared for his regular workout shortly after 3 o'clock. He covered nine miles of road early in the day, but did not do any other work until afternoon. After he returned from the sprint today he plunged into the fun around the resort and became the leading spirit wherever there was "something doing." It Is his way of resting and he plays like a schoolboy. No sign does he show that he ever thinks of the near approach of the Fourth of July, what the five days mean to him. The big man is as happy as a lark and, seems the least Interested person in the camp in the battle talk. Kaufman. Monahan and Mills were the champion's victims today. The bouts lacked the excitement of those staged yenterday in honor of Governor Dlcker Bon's presence, Johnson dropping back to his easy, almost indolent playing with his partner . q p. f v Ayp w rf -, ii ! i -til I ' - y - U 7 I ll i y 4 ' y i t-fr-v- it i - r v -v i -v4 '11 V f 'i 11 , - ' y 1 rv,r- 11 ! 7- I I ll 1'" t vOv..ll 1 - - &m&&Ar zro c.mr I iii 1 1 n " r5 , a- 'A A A I l!;,! 1 f .J'- S " 1 V 1 1 I ' 1 Sfe - ' -wd I I I ,xi "" -VV jCL SCORES TO REPORT World's Best Sporting Writers Gather at Reno. CARTOONISTS ON GROUND Newspaper Men to Number of 120 Will Prepare Stories at Ringside of Big Fight Associated. Press Has Eight Men. RENO, Nev., June 29. Three score newspaper reporters, special visitors, cartoonists and photographers are al ready assembed to report the battle be tween Jeffries and Johnson. Sixty more are expected, making a total of 120. With newspapermen here from all parts of the United States, the coming fight on July 4 should be the best re ported ring battles on record. San Fran cisco is naturally the best represented, and almost one-third of the picked men will be supplied by the Bay City. Ex cluding California newspapermen, the following special writers are already here: Frank L. O'Connell, New York World; W. P. McLoughlin and E. G. Brown, New York World; Bob Edgren, Even ing World; R. W. Richie, New York Sun; E. B. Moss, Evening Sun, New York; R. Goldberg, New York Mall; C. E. Van Loan, New York American; Hugh Keough, Chicago Tribune; John Seys, Chicago News; Edwin Park, Bos ton Globe; Otto Floto, Kansas City Post and Denver Post; Harry Burchall, New York Times; Bat Masterson, New York Telegraph; Sandy Grlswold, World-Her ald of Omaha; Claud Johnson, Kansas j City Star; John Norton, News of New ark; Ed Cochrane, Kansas City Jour nal; Portus Baxter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; John Foster, New York Telegram; Tom Andrews, Milwaukee, Wis.; Wally Rowland, Milwaukee Jour nal; Freddie Hewitt, Chicago Inter Ocean; W. W. Douglass, Louisville Courier-Journal: Ed Lannlgan, St. Louis Times; Will Floto, xiutte Inter Mountaim; Joseph Nolan,. Cincinnati Enquirer; S. M. Reynolds, Philadelphia News; Harry Sharp, St. Louis Times; Ed Smith, Chicago American; James Swtnnerton, New York American; George Adams, Adams Syndicate, and Alfred Henry Lewis. Fight Men to Represent A. P. The Associated Press is to be rep resented by Charles E. Kloeber,. Guy Moysten. Charles H. Brennan, Kirk Simpson, Phil Kinsley, Edward St. Clair, Edmund Stover and Robert Geistllch. The United Press will have five men on the scene, of whom M. Bal thazar, George Fulford and R. v. How ard are already here. Around the ring will also be gath ered the most famous bunch of glove artists and sporting celebrities in the history of the game. Every state in the Union will be represented. Among others might be mentioned James J. Corbett, Muldoon, Fltzsimmons, Lang, Tommy Burns, Hugh Mcintosh, Lang ford, Ad Wolgast, Boer Unholz, Bat Nelson, Mike Murphy, Bob Armstrong, Al Kaufman, George Consldine, Jack McAuliffe, Abe Attell, Jim Coffroth, Louis Blot, Billy Armstrong, De Witt Van Court, Sam Berger, Sid Hester, Billy McCarney, John L. Sullivan, Jack Root, Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Tom Jones, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Egan, Tim Sullivan, John Grant, J.. A Whallen Scott Bullett, Jack Grant, Frank Smith and J. W. Morrison. Muldoom will be best remembered in San Francisco on account of his wrest ling matches with Clarence Whistler and Donald Dinnie at the old Mechanics Pavilion. John L. Sullivan was the champion London prizering fighter. Jim Corbett was the first Californlan to win a world's heavyweight cham pionship. Fltzsimmons earned cham pionship honors by defeating Corbett at the memorable battle at Carson City. Tom Sharkey gained fame by battling with Jeffries on two occasions, while Joe Choynski only lacked a little in weight or he would have been a cham pion in his day. Lang is the new Australian cham pion who comes here looking for a match. Tommy Eurns Is the man who recently lost the championship to Jack Johnson. Hugh Mcintosh is the leviathan fight-promoter of Australia. Ad Wolgast Is the lightweight cham pion who is now en route to Reno. Jack McAuliffe is the ex-champion lightweight. He will be best remembered by Californiana for his great battle with Jimmy Carroll. Xbe Attell Is the present feather-weight champion. Jack Root played several engagements In San Francisco in his prime. J. A. Whallen, of Louisville, has not missed a championship battle in 30 years. He Is accompanied by Scott Bullett, a prominent politician of Ken tucky. Bat Nelson Is the recently de posed lightweight champion. George Considine is prominent in theatrical circles. Tim Sullivan Is known as a politician from one end of the country to the other. He is also the stake holder. Joe Eagan was formerly man ager of Jim Jeffries. Tom Jones Is the manager of Wolgast. Billy Arm strong Is an old-time California fighter and wrestler who is now boxing In structor of the Montreal Athletic Club. Mike Murphy is the famous trainer of the University of Pennsylvania. There are scores of other men fa mous to the sport world who are now on the road to the scene of action, and there can be no doubt about the gath ering at Reno being a record-breaker in that respect. JEFFRIES WINNER, SAYS BURNS Fighter Expects Big Negro to Show Yellow Streak. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. Tommy Burns, from whom Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship, and who arrived here yesterday on the steamship Wilhelmlna from Australia, declares that Johnson Is going to get the beating of his life when he faces Jeffries in the arena at Reno on July 4. , Burns did not mince his words when speaking of what ne termed Johnson s yellow streak. "Johnson may be game against little men like Ketchel and myself," said Burns, "but he will show the streak of yellow when Jeffries lands a few hard punches to the stomach. Jeffries will only have to be half as good as he form erly was, to win, and I look for the fight to end aDout tne wth round. . If Johnson should happen to win, I will challenge him at the ringBide, but I would not think of going against a man like Jim Jeffries. After the fight between John son and myself in Australia, Johnson went next day to a doctor, who told him that my punches had broken two ribs. Now it stands to reason that If Jeffries ever wallops him he will cave In all of his ribs." JACK GL.EASOX HAS THE LAUGH Gamble on. Moving Picture Profits Wins Rickard and Jeff Sore. RENO. Nev., June 29. CSpeciaL) Tex Rickard is now regretting that he acted so hastily in selling his potential moving-picture pronts for S33. 333.30. Jeffries thinks he made a bad bargain in taking $66,666.66, but worst of all are the regrets that come from John Arthur Johnson, who has to be content with $50,000. The only happy man Is Jack Gleason. Jack declared the other day that he was willing to gamble on the profits and he wins. Already an Eastern firm has offered $200,000 for the moving picture rights outside of Canada, which means a handsome profit if the men who are interested care to sell out. Both Rock and O'Day think it will be a wise scheme to wait for a day. Oarsmen Rest Before Races. . NEW LONDON. Conn., June 29. This was a holiday for the Yale and Har vard oarsmen at their quarters four miles up the river as their period of work is over and there remains simply the perfection of the last details for the three races of tomorrow. ' - Vanderbilt Wins at Le Tremblay. PARIS. June 29. The Prix Cremorne, run at Le Tremblay today, was won by W. K. Vanderbilt's Gulllauma II. FITZ" FAVORS JACK Lanky Bob Extols Powers of Colored Prizefighter. YELLOWNESS IS DECRIED Ex-Champion Says Black Is Clever est Man in Heavyweight Ring and That He Has Puncli Negro Not Frankly Picked to Win. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 29. That big Jack Johnson is an unknown power, who will be "there with the goods' when he faces James J. Jeffries at Reno on July 4, was the private and honest opinion expressed by Bob Fltzsimmons, ex-heavywelght champion of the world. when seen here tonight, by a represen tative of The Orefonian. Publicly, he Bays that Jeffries can come back and will put up a great fight and a lot of other complimentary things In favor of the big bollermaker, but behind the scenes, without openly say ing that Johnson will win. he intimates as much. Fltzsimmons dropped into the city unexpectedly tonight, and with his wife renewed several old acquaintanceships here, incidentally being introduced on the stage of one ot tne meaiers. Jeff Man of His Word. T vnnw Jeffries la a man of his word," said Fltzsimmons to The Oregonlan s representative, "and will be oacic m good form, if he says he can. I also Vnnw he has the punch and is big and husky, but I am as firmly convinced from first-hand knowledge that Jack Johnson a. hlor. Dowerful negro wnose wonaer ful fighting abilities are absolutely un VnAwn AS vet. 'Johnson is a clever man, proDaojy me cleverest In the heavyweight ring today, and hla defense is nearly perfect. In tnt rrurd he will undoubtedly have th hiilM on Jeffries by U tnousana-ioia Some Teorle doubt the negro's ability to land a. knockout puncn, out 1 wouia remind them that, thus far, Johnson has never bad cause to show tnat ne nas such a punch. His past battles have been too easy for him. He has not been forced, but I am sure he has the punch. Yellow. Streak' Silly Talk. "There are others who have spread about a lot of silly talk concerning the negro's allegad yellow streak- That's silly.- Take It from me, there if no yellow streak In Johnson's makeup, and even if there Is, it has never been shown yet, and I defy anyone to prove a single instance where it has. Some s.y In the Marvin Hart fight, but I say that that was a dirty decision. Everyono who saw that fight will, or should, agree that Johnson should have had the decision clearly." Fltzsimmons has no liking for Sam Langford, bearing his opinion on the re cent flgnt, and says he thinks Tommy Burns is by far the better man of the two. Fltzsimmons will leave Vanoouver at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning en route to Reno, and after the fight he will go Into vaudeville in the Northwest. He is engaged by the New York World to write up the big fight, and, doubtless but for that fact, would be far more open in his statements. Clark County Cherry to Fore. VANCOUVER. Wash., June . 29. (Special.) Forty cherries to a pound were raised in Clark County by J. Nel son Stewart, who has a small fruit farm east of the garrison. The cher ries are of the Blng . variety, and are richly colored. Johnson-Jeffries direct wire from ringside. Edelweiss Cafe. Secure seats. 149 7th st. . if Novelist Declares Big White Man Modest and Unassuming, but No wise Shy, Nor Will He Suffer Stage-Fright in Ring. (Continued from ylrt Pagt.) msigniiicant snipe, who are you to treat me In this fash'on?" But you don't say Jt to Jeffries. I don't know why, unless it Is that he is not little and Insignificant. Also, possibly, deen down in one's subliminal self is a sud den remembrance that life Is sweet and the sun good to look upon. I should like to be present when Jeffries is Introduced to God. Depend upon it. mere will be an awkward mo ment or two. Now, If all the foregoing: were a nosa on the big fighter's part, if it were a cnange -ot manner noted In recent years, the public would have some cause of complaint against his brusque ana ms rooiing of audiences at me training camp. But this is no pose on nis part, it hat always been his way, since the first time he came into the public eye, a raw youngster of 20, o.own m lob Angeles. Nor does this peculiar attitude of his proceed from snyness nor embarrassment. Jeffries Modest, Not Shy Modest he is. and unassuming, with no touch of the braggart about him but he is not shy. He Is merely him self with the strength of character to be himself. A peculiar self-granted person, but still himself. In his way he is an iron man. slmnle and quiet and reposeful, and not era- garious In a w'de way. He feels no impulse to be hail-fellow-well-met with iom, Dick and Harry, and he Is hon est enough not to simulate a feeling lie aoes not possess. All the same, it o aarnea nard on the public. It is because Jeffries is mlsundnrtnr. mat some of the near-thinking fight- ""f"' nave raised a question which tney fire at one unexpectedly with all tne confidence that It is an unanswar sole conundrum, Jeff Afraid of Crowd t "If he is so afraid of a crowd." they say, "that he . don't dare train before a couple of hundred spectators, well. wnat under the sun Is he going to do when he faces 20,000 spectators the oay or the fight?" Vot m . . mo cLuoncr ig complete. TT tin fought before some very sizable crowds ere now, and he has never shown any eviaences Of Stagefrlght. Ann.r thing Is that he s a thinker; a silent man Is usually a th'nker, and because Jeffries does not blurt out all he knows to the first chance comer is no sign that he does not know a great deal back there behind those searching black otds. Jobnson Is Contrast. Quite In contrast is carefree, happy Jack Johnson. Nobody was ever more gregarious than he, ever happier to greet old friends and make new ones. He likes crowds, thrives upon them ' and in turn does, his best to give them a good time. Let htm decide on a certain day that he is not going to spar and then in form him 200 persons have journeyed all the way out to his camp to see him work. Depend upon it, Johnson simply couldn't let them go away disappointed. Out would go the word to his sparring i partners, and a few minutes later he s would be In the thick of a 10 or 12- I round exhibition. j Jack Chief Entertainer. Out at his training camp Johnson is always in the thick of things. Usually he is chief entertainer, whether In mak ing mus-ic. playing games, presiding at mock trials, or spinning yarns. And al ways his voice Is raised to others, in viting them to kick in and have a good time. On the Fourth these two strangely different men come together for the first time, the silent fighter and the garrulous fighter. Two things I look for from Johnson. As the fight progresses he will talk less and less, and his famous smile will fade from his lips unless it be frozen there; for there is no doubt that this Is the fight of Johnson's career, and If he is ever deadly grim and serious in his life It will be in the ring that day after the opening rounds have brought him down to brass tacks. Of Jeffries, it is safe to forecast that he will be no more voluble In any round IIIW Tat firic- Jw T 1 "TVJ fM- T ii " "' 1 XX I.I.J I )' ThatVWhat the Ladies Thought of Gregg He certainly heaved some yesterday A regular big league win. 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Frobably three -quarters of the people who come to Reno to see the Jeffries Johnson fight will be sleeping on cots if they are lucky enough to sleep at all. At least, some of the men with an eye to business have decided that will be the scheme, and have embarked In the cot game to a large extent. Vacant stores have been rented and furnished with cots, strung along as closely to gether as possible. These cots are to be rented to the people who cannot find other places to sleep. Rumor has to charsre as much as S a nlsrht for the use of these cots, ana tney ng- ure that they can clean up a snug little profit. Yale Freshmen Best Oarsmen. GALES FERRT, Conn, June 29. The Yale freshmen four-oared crew defeated the Harvard freshmen four oared crew In their mile row today by three-quarters of a length in o:37H Harvard's time was 5:39. VICTORIA Baker ALSO OTHER MODELS J. W. Van Metre , . Fifteenth, and Alder. 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