THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JUNE 12, 1910.
SURPRISES BREAK
IfJ RIVAL CAMPS
Sporting Writers Find It Hard
to Keep Tab on Changes in
Fighters' Quarters.
MUCH "KNOCKING" IS DONE
Johnson's Row With Little Result of
JealousyTrouble Between Berger
and Jeffries Is Latest dis
turbance to Be Reported.
EY HARRY B. SMITH.
S4 FRAXCISCO. Cal.. June 11.
(Special.) The Jeffries-Johnson fight
has reached the stage of rumors and
angles, and with something like three
weeks of hard work ahead, the news
paper men are finding the situation
far more tense than they care for.
Stories break out at all times of the
day and night and when one leaves
the office at midnight, It Is a toss up
as to whether some other paper has
not secured an exclusive. It is nat
ural for rumors to be heard on a
fight of this sort, but they are com
ing faster than would ordinarily be
expected.
The Johnson-Little feud has taken
up the bulk of the space for several
days and now comes the story from
Kowardennan that all Is not well be
tween Sam Berger and James J- Jef
fries. That story has been current
gossip for a week or more and the
breaking of the yarn has not come with
any great amount of surprise.
The real trouble is that there has
been a lot of politics done. Many of
those Interested In one way or another
have been taking revenge by rapping
somebody else.
The row between Johnson and Little,
for example, is a matter . of petty
jealousy between the women folks at
the-camp and George Little and Sig
Hart. Little was "sore" at Hart be
cause the latter was friendly with
Johnson. He accused Hart of being a
tale bearer and one day two weeks ago
kicked Hart in the leg and otherwise
hauled him around. That was tem
porarily patched - -up.-- Little flared
again . because Nolan was such a fre
quent visitor at the camp and when It
was announced that Oelaney would as
sist in the training of the black man.
little Proves Stubborn.
The final break came last Saturday
night when there was a general war
as a result of which Johnson ordered
Little to leave the place, never to re
turn. Little, however, has plenty of
gameness, and came back Sunday
morning to fight it out to the bitter
end. " He insisted that as long as he
had a contract with Johnson, he was
still the manager and to show his au
thority insisted that he would take
the tickets at the door.
Johnson, accompanied by. a pair of
policemen, subdued Little for the time
being and the show went along with
out an Interruption. Now that Little
has cooled off to a certain extent, he
la not trying to force his company
upon Johnson but says that he will
seek recourse t h rough the courts. He
declares first of all that he will se
cure the $10,000 that he deposited for
Johnson and also that he will see that
he gets 25 per cent of whatever are
the profits.
No one knows just what kind of a
contract Little has got, but If It Is
a good paper, he may give Johnson a
merry chase before he gets through
with things.
Then came the Nolan story. It was
all planned; to have Nolan installed as
manager. When he heard the news,
Tex ft! ('karri got busy. Rickard and
Nolan get along as well as & couple of
strange, bulldogs. Rickard, after his
experience ' with Nolan as manager of
Battling Nelson at the Goldfleld fight,
hatefc" Nolan and says that Billy woultT
stir up all sorts of trouble. Accord
ingly. Rickard went to Johnson and
exacted a promise that Billy would be
kept out of the limelight. Johnson
agreed and Issued a statement that he
would manage himself.
Subsequently, he declared that Tom
Flanagan, who is in his camp, would
act as business manager. That Is
nothing more than a stall, for Johnson
will continue to transact his own busi
ness until the end of the chapter.
Corbett Dominates Camp.
Under the Influence of James J.
Corbett. who is the dominating spirit
at Rowardennan, Jeffries is far more j
affable to newspapermen than is had
previously, been. The writer spent two
days this last week at the Jeffries
camp and there was a decided Improve
ment. Jeffries stood for such photo
graphs as were desired of him and
didn't growl. Everybody credits the
change to Corbett, who meets Jeffries
as an equal and persuades the big fel
low to be decent.
About that Berger story, it Is hard
to say what are the real facts In the
case. Those who are residents nt the
camp have noticed recently that tfie
entente cordial between the fighter
and his manager seemed to be strained.
Berger, in fact, has .had little to say
to Jeffries.
The gossip is that Jeffries blames
on Plerger the sentiment that has hen
aroused in the newspapers over the
country and that many of Jeffri-
close friends have taken the same taok.
Jack Gleason made a hurried trip the
middle of the week to Rowardennan
and It is believed he went thero tn
straighten out the row.
There is a lot of interest, I suppose,
in the condition of Jeffries.- On the
surface he looks good. He has taken,
off the weight about the stomach that
was so no.tieeable and appears to bo
fairly fast. Ho has a healthy color
and a good eye. That is about as far
s you can go in sizing the man up.
Whether he will be able to stand the
pace of the fight is something that
the fight Itself will have to determine.
Jeffries Gains Confidence.
Jeffries, himself, seems to have a
world of- confidence in bis ability to
win- He , says very little on the sub
ject, but from two or three rer.-arks
that he dropped it is evident that he
Is satisfied with his condition and
that can win. That is. the one thing
that has been lacking in Jeffries, and
his trainers hall the change with de
light. There is one tning that most
of us would like to seo uiore of. and
Jeffries has done little or no boxing.
He has done enough of the other kind
of work, but what he needs is to put
on the. gloves and get the judgment
of distance and the quickness that can
only come with sparring.
If Jeffries wins, so comes the state
ment, he will take his entire training
camp with him on a tour of the United
States and the world. That will In
clude Joe Choynski, Farmer Burns.
Frank Gotch, who is aue very soon,
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tor can spare' the time.
QuiV a number of Eastern newspa
per 'sporting writers have arrived from
the East. Eddie Morse, sporting edi
tor of the Evening Sun; Robert Ed
gren, of the Evening World; Tad Dor
gan, a Hearsti man from New Yorli,
and a Chicago News representative are
among the advance guard, and by the
middle of the month there will be
many others.
Advices from Los Angeles are to the
effect that Tommy Burns, Bob Fltz
slmmons. Bill Lang and Hugh Mcin
tosh, the Sydney promoter, have saied
for America and will arrive here .the
last of the month.
In ' short, the bout on the Fourth of
July will attract more celebrities in
the sportiTig world than any other a!
fair of its kind, and every scrapper
who clulms any sort of prominence
will be among those present at' the
ringside. .
Johnson Busy Boxing.
Jack Johnson is pursuing the even
tenor of his ways as far as boxing Is
concerned. He i is working with the
gloves about three or four days a week.
The rest of the time he goes on the
road. As the fight draws close to
hand he will do more boxing andby
the middle of this month will be work
ing full swing. There need be no
doubt but that the champion, will be
in good condition. TJie last time I saw
him on the scales he was down to 212
pounds and as he expects to fight at
about 208, you can judge for your
selves how much work he has been
doing.
The betting still remains at odds of
10 to 7, with Jeffries the favorite, but
if there is any change it will be to
shorten the price, as Johnson money is
sure to put in an appearance with the
close of the month. Tom Corbett has
been "appointed official commissioner
by the club, which means that on the
day of the fight he will have the
right to handle all wagers that the
sports care to make.
Work on the arena at Eighth and
Market streets has already begun, the
first building operations starting last
Tuesday. It is figured that the aVena
will be completed inside of three weeks,
or one week before the fight takes
place. There is plenty of lumber on
the ground and as the arena progresses,
the force of men will be increased.
Already the tall buildings in the vi
cinity of the battle ground are plan
ning how to use their available win
dows and the tops of their structures
for people to see the contest at long
range. It is expected, also that many
women will take advantage of the op
portunity at least to watch the crowds.
Pan Francisco ought to see a good
fight on June 18, next Saturday after
noon, when Al Kaufman and Sam Lang
ford fight in Blot's new arena on How
ard street. The affair is for 20 rounds.
Just at present, Langford is a 10 to
8 favorite over Kaufman and he will
likely go into the ring an even more
pronounced choice.
Two promoters, Jimmy Coffroth and
Sid Hester, are angling for the Lang-ford-Ketchel
fight at Richmond on
July 2. Each man says he has the
signature of Ketchel to a contract to
fight, and they are squabbling over
Langford. The contest will be a good
drawing card, although people gener
ally think that Langford will have no
trouble in winning.
PORTLAND TO PLAY AT El'GEXE
McCredie's Team Will Go Up Valley
on Open JOate.
El'GEXE. Or.. June 11. (Special.)
As the result of a trip to Portland this
week. Jay McCormick came back to
day and announced that McCredie
would bring his Portland team to Eu
gene and play a pickup aggregation of
valley players on either Monday, July
12 or 7 9. on tnese days the Portland
team has no games,' scheduled and many
of the team would like to make the
trip up here and take advantage of the
fishing on the McKenxie near here, for
a day.
The plan will be worked up fully
here and it is probable that the mer
chants will agree to close their, stores
during the hours of the game.
Wolpast's Arm. Not Broken.
MILWAUKEE, June 11. The Injury
to Ad Wolgast's left arm in last night's
contest with Jack Redmond, is de
fined today by the Badger Athletic
Club's physician as a "muscle bruise"
and -will not Incapacitate the fighter
longer than two weeks. The physician
says no bones are broken and that
there is very little swelling. The in
Jury was caused probably when the
champion swung his left to the body
coming in contact with Redmond's el
bow. The accident happened in the
seventh round. Wolgast won the bout
in 10 rounds, but went very slowly in
the last three.
OP HEAVYWEIGHTS WHO WILL
JOHNSON 15 JOLLY
Negro Puts Plenty of Vim Into
. 11 Rounds of Boxing.
CROWD IS KEPT AMUSED
Kickard and Eastern Newspaper
Men Watch Champion and Eddie
Graney Declares He Has
- Improved Greatly.
SAX FRANCISCO, June 11. Jack John
son engaged In what was easily the best
workout of his training this afternoon.
Evidently feeling in the best of humor,
he put plenty of 1 steam behind his
punches. There were 11 rounds of boxing
of hlch four were two-minute contests
with Al Kaufman. In addition, the cham
pion boxed four rounds with George Cot
ton and two more with Dave Mills.
It is .evident from the style of work
Johnson is following that he expects to
receive a pummeling in the stomach from
Jeffries. To prepare for this, Johnson
Is allowing his sparring partners to hit
him in the midriffs. Even Al Kaufman
was given instructions to play for the
champion's stomach. With 200i pounds of
good weight to back him up. Kaufman
wrestled Johnson around the ring in
These Popular Writers Will Report the
Jeffries-Johnson Fight for The Oregonian
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JAfK LONDON.
Three weeks from tomorrow, James J. Jeffries and
for the world's heavyweight championship. '
Jack London, author of "The Call of the Wild," "The Sea Wolf" and
other noted works of fiction, will telegraph a descriptive story. of the; battle
to The "Oregonian in connection with the New York Herald. '
London has also promised, preceding the fight, to wire dairy reports of
the pugilists from the training "camps.
Rex Reach, who, like London, won international fame with stories out of
Alaska,- will also report the fight by wire for The Oregonian. He will arrive
in San Francisco full week in advance of the event and promises at least
two preliminary stories; more if anj-thing stirring crops up.
FIGHT JULY 4 NEXT.
much better shape than any of the
colored men's regular sparring partners
and the work was good for both of them.
Johnson Shows Improvement.
"Johnson is a wonderful fighter," said
Kaufman. "He has improved since the
day I fought ten rounds with him at
Colma. Of course he has gained in
weight and while it is hard to tell about
a punch with these gloves, I know he can
hit harder. I expact to see him beat
Jeffries and I don't think the retired
champion will be able to lay a glove
on the negro'
Eddie Graney was another enthusiastic
spectator.
"That man Johnson has improved 10
per cent since the middle of the week,"
declared the "honest blacksmith" to sev
eral friends of his. "In fact I never
saw Johnson work as hard as he Is work
ing . right now. He punches the bag
harder and is more aggressive in the ring
than I expected he would be. Don't let
anybody talk you Into thinking that he
!s loafing on the job. ; I have watched
Johnson train for -many of his lights and
he surprised me every time that I vi3ited
hiscamp."
Negro In Jolly Humor.
There was a spirit of good nature per
vading the afternoon's programme and
half the time the crowd was in an uproar.
Johnson "evidently was in high spirits
and when he tossed the medicine ball
around -he tried tb knock down his
helpers and threw the ball so that it
would land in some part of the crowd.
After the boxing with Kaufman, John
son finished with some speedy work with
Cotton and Mills. At the seme time
Kaufman was boxing in the same ring
with fWalter Monohan, so there was a
satisfying show for the spectators.
Tex Rickard. accompanied by several
Eastern newspaper men, was on hand
to watch the boxing.
Johnson will box agatn tomorrow after
noon with Al Kaufman but will not put
-the gloves on Monday. He weighed 214
pounds today.
BAY GITY FIGHT IS
PUT IN BAD LIGHT
Naming of Rickard as Referee
and Gillett's Alleged Words
Suggest Frame-Up."
NEGROL'S RECORD DUBIOUS
Johnson's Disagreement With Man
ager Also Casts Shade ol SuspS
cion Jeffries Probably Free
From Any .- Crookedness.
BY W. J. PETRAIN.
As the date of the Jeffries-Johnson
ring fcattle approaches, the many
thousands of people interested in the
match continue to speculate more than
ever on the result.
Both principals have long had a
large following, with the Jeffries en
thusiasts far exceeding those who pick
the colored man. but in the last few
weeks' there have been several Inci
dents " that have served to cast the
shadow of suspicion on the match. The
best friends of both men deeply re
gret "these occurrences, for they say
there is nothing at all suspicious about
the big battle. In making this conten
tion, these men. and som of them
are among the most respected sporting
men in the country, are up against a
hard line of argument to convince the
skeptics that the fight will be on the
square.
Rumors of fixing, the selection of
an Inexperienced man to referee, the
Governor of California's alleged state
ment and Jack Johnson's quarrel with
George Little, his erstwhile manager,
have given rise to countless doubts as
to the squareness of the mill.
. Johnson's Kecord Bad.
Johnson's reputation in the past has
been so unsavory that no one would
doubt his .willingness to "frame" a
match, especially with a man like Jef
fries, if it were to be made worth his
while. As a matter of fact, the loser's
end of the $101,000 purse would ordi
narily be enough to satisfy a fellow of
Johnson's caliber, but this event will
be worth much more to him than that.
If Jack Johnson laid down before
Marvin Han for a meaBly purse of
hardly more than $5000, what would
he do if tempted by ten times that
sum, which amount could easily be-of
fered by the "sure thing" element back
of the prizefighting game in San Fran
Cisco? 1
It is not likely that Jeffries is i
party to the frameup. if such a frame
up exists, for "Big Jeff" would more
than likely annihilate any one who
would attempt to get him to consent
to a crooked match. Realizing Jeffries'
probable attitude In the matter, the
gamblers and they are back of the
big fight strong, for Tex Rickard, is
a gambler pure and simple, and en
tered into the promotion of this match
on a '"shoestring" will want to insure
their money which backs Rickard.
The American public wants this fight
to be on the square, for fairness and.
honesty in sport mean much to th
patrons of all athletics, and to have
even the slightest suspicion cast upon
the honesty of this fight is due to
the mistake of allowing two specula
tors to capture such an attraction.
when every one knew they could not
have promoted a peanut stand on
what they had themselves. This fact
gives rise to the query, "Who is back
ing Rickard and Gleason?" Both have
associated with the gambling and sure
thing element all their lives, and the
natural conclusion is that - gamblers
are the men furnishing the capital to
hold the pattle.
Rickard Lacks Experience.
"Tex. Rickard continues to assert
that he will referee this battle. Rick
ard is likeljf tfi turn the big mill into
a farce, for even if there is a pre-
arrangement Between the two men,
there is enough ill feeling between
Jeffries and Johnson to warrant the
expectancy of considerable roughness
and this alone requires the services of
IEX BEACH.
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a referee of experience in ring battles.
Rickard has never refereed any ring
contest worthy of the name. He is
absolutely nnacqualnted "with the work.
A man ot no more experience at
the game than has Rickard will have
as much chance handling Jeffries and
Johnson in a 24-foot ring as a 6-year-old
boy. would In trying to control a
couple of unmanageable Clydesdales.
Governor Glllett's alleged statement
from Chicago, afterwards both . denied
and repeated, has not helped the big
fight in the least. Governor Glllett is
quoted as saying that the big mill was
framed up for Jeffries to win, and he
was quoted at length on the 6-ubject.
These statements he later denied, and
was immediately afterward quoted as
reaffirming his original statement, so
Just at present it is hard to tell Just
what he did say. However, the wide
spread circulation given his original
statement has ' served the purpose of
giving the second blow to the big mill,
the first being the selection of Rickard
as referee. These two incidents were
quickly followed by Johnson's split with
Little, his manager, and that worthy
lr now threatening to "tell tales out
of school" unless he is reinstated into
the good graces of the negro champion.
Bad management. Inexperience, and
general tendency to hoodwink the
public have marked the progress of the
big fight negotiations from the time
the representatives of Jeffries and John
son met in Chicago a year ago, and un
lets something is accomplished very
soon to restore confidence In the match,
the anticipated coin harvest by Rickard
and Gleason is likely to suffer a ma
terial decrease on the long-awaited
day, July 4.
FINE TROPHIES ASSURED
$1000 SUBSCRIBED FOR MOTOR-
BOAT RACES.
Crack Speed Boats From San Iran-
clsco and Seattle Entered for
Vancouver Contests.
Citizens of Vancouver have sub
scribed $1000 to purchase trophies for
the Pacific CoaBt championship motor-
boat races, which will be held in Van
couver harbor July 4. This announce
ment was made officially at an en
thusiastic meeting of the Portland iilo
torboat Club last week. Five hundred
dollars of this amount will go for a
gold cup for the winner of the free-for-all
race and the Pacific Coast cham
pionship. Trophies of a value of $100
or more will be given In each of the
other races.
That the races will all be hotly con
tested is assured by the entry of sev
eral crack speed boats from Seattle
and San Francisco. The Seattle Spirit
and Lawanna, from Seattle, will be
entered in the contest, aa will the
Fighting Bob, a racing craft from Sac
ramento. These boats will try to wrest
the laurels from the well-known Pacer
II- nd Wolff II. of Portland. The
Wolff II, which is owned by John E.
Wolff, now holds the Pacific Coast
championship, which. It captured lir the
races at the A--f exposition in heat
tie last year. At that time the Wolff
II maintained a speed of more than 32
miles an hour.
The Pacer, which also won a cham
pionship at Seattle last year, has been
equipped with a new hull and re.
christened the Pacer II. With the new
hull, which was built by Von der
Werth, in Portland, the Pacer Is said
to be much faster than formerly. Th
Pacer II is equipped with a Lelghton
engine, capable of developing more
than 100 horsepower. The Pacer II
is owned by Cox & Slattery, who have
been saving it for the championship
races. v
The officials of the Pacific Coast
International Power-Boat Association
have been invited to participate, and it
is thought they will accept. This will
mean the coming of delegates from
British Columbia, Washington, Califor.
nla and Oregon.
At least four championship races
will be held. Races for boats of the
24, 28 and 32-foot classes will be, ar
ranged for and there will be one for
the cruisers. Possibly a race for boats
of . the hydroplane class will be in
eluded.
The Happy Heinle, built by Otto
Ranft and which is one of the speed
iest of the smaller craft In Portland,
may be cut down about eight inches
In order that it may be entered in
the 24-foot class. It Is now 24 feet
eight inches over all. Otto Ranft and
Al Kllngbill are at work on a new 32
foot racer that is expected to give a
good account of itself. Captain Spen
cer is having bu-t for him a 2S-foot
speed boat.
A banquet will be held after the
races, the visiting members being the
guests of honor. The New Perkins Ho
tel will be motor-boatmen's headquar
ters during the meeting.
TRIP VP VALIEY PLANNED
Fast Hop Golds Seeking Outside
Worlds to Conquer.
Arrangements for a trip up the Valley
on July 3 and 4. when, games will be
played with the fast Eugene team, are
now being completed by E. Dunn, man
ager of the Hop Gold baseball team of
Portland. The Hop Golds are composed
of youngsters several of whom are now
ripe for faster company. They have met
and defeated several of the fast lnde
pandent teams about Portland and want
outside games for the rest of the season.
Frieze and Pollette compose the battery
for the Hop Gold team, and they work
well together. Frieze having a good as
sortment of benders and Pollette being a
vigorous and heady catcher. For games
with the Hop Golds address E. Dunn, 761
Oregon street, Portland, or call East 6303.
Fashion Plate Wins Erookdale.
GRAVESEND, X. T., June 11. On a
muddy track Fashion Plate won the
Brookdale handicap, mile ana an eighth,
at Gravesend today, defeating a high
class field. The Gentlemen's cup, about
six" furlongs, resulted in a victory for
Charlie Hargrave, which won gallop
ing by four lenghts.
Big Auto Kace Postponed.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 11 The
National Automobile Club race, which
was scheduled for today, has been post
poned until Monday. A heavy rain,
which fell last night, made the course
up the mountain side dangerous for fast
riding.
Southern Golf Championship Won.
ATLANTA. Ga., June 11. F. G. Byrd,
of Atlanta, won the championship cup
of the Southern Golf Association this
afternoon, defeating R. G. Rush, Jr.,
of New Orleans, in the finals, eight up
and six to play.
Whitney's Horse Wins.
GATWICK. Eng., June 11. H. P. Whit
ney's Borrow won the Crabbet plate of
S00 sovereigns for 2-year-olds, distance
five furlongs, run here today. St. Amar
anthe was second and Lance-a-Mort third.
Twelve horses started.
Los Angeles Gets Cincinnati Red.
NEW YORK. June 11. President
Lynch, of the National League of Base
ball Clubs, today announced the release
of Roy Castleton by Cincinnati to Los
Angeles
CORBETT SAYS HE
IS'
Ex-Champion, However, Would
Really Welcome Chance at
Johnson, He Declares.
JEFF'S" CONDITION PRAISED
Prediction Is Made That White
Slugger Will Be Best-Trained
Fighter Who Ever Stepped
Into a Prlierlng.
BT JAMES J. CORBETT.
(Oopyrlfrht. 1910. by the Tribune Oompany.
JEFFRIES" TRAINING CAMP. Rowmr.
denan. Cal., June 7. (Special Correspon
dence.) Well, the first week is over and
everything is far above my anticipations.
This is a beautiful place and Jeffries'
wonderful Improvement can partially be
attributed to his environment here.
No doubt you have noticed In the pa
pers that Johnson and myself have been
having quite a war of words. I'm "kid
ding"' tne big smoke along and having
a little fun with him. Ho got hot and
invited me out to the training quarters
to spar with him. but he didn't stop to
think that I've been in the business a
long, long time, and I know he wouldn't
take any chance sparring with me in his
training quarters or any other place.
Just to "kid" him a little bit. however.
I defied him to bet me $5000 that I
wouldn't go out and box with him. This,
of course, I knew he would not accept,
so it was a good chance for me to show
the puMic out here that he is somewhat
of a "bluffer" himself. Nothing would"
please me more than to put the gloves
on with Johnson, because no matter
what might happen, I would be sure to
get a line on his so-called skill and I
might also discover a few weak points
that may have been overlooked la bi3
previous fights.
Will Continue to Talk.
However, he is taking me seriously and
that's just what I want. I want him to
pay attention to everything I say, and
I promise you it won't do him any good
if he heeds what I'm going to say about
him from now until the fight is decided.
Well, everybody anticipated that 'there
was going to be a lot of knocking, squab
bling and Jealousy in the training ,camp
before I arrived, but they werd all
wrong, and I am glad to state that in
Jeffries' training quarters everything
is in harmony and it is just like one big
happy family. It amuses everybody out '
here to see Choynskl and I off in. soma
corner "chewing the rag" about our
many old fights, and, to the surprise of
everyone, 1 asked Joe in the gymnasium
yesterdayf t Put 'on tne gloves, and
there we stood facing each other fbr the .
first time in 22 years.
If any one thinks that fighters' souls
are devoid of sentiment he is certainly
wrong, for f can't remember when I was
more pleased and happy than when we
two veterans stood there ready to box.
and I believe Joe felt the same way
about it. t
Tomorrow my troubles begin. I start
boxing with Jeffries and from what I seo
of his condition I don't look upon the
event as a source of enjoyable enter
tainment. This big bear is as strong as
a bull and has endurance to burn, and.
no matter what you might read to the
contrary, I can't see any difference in
Jeffries than when he fought me at
Coney Island and in San Francisco.
Jeff Still at Best.
His face .has the same youthful look
and while his head is naturally a little
shy of hair, which makes his pictures
look badly, take my word for it, he's
just as "nifty" a performer now as when
he was flattening the best of us. I've
noticed a lot of people who talk of John
son's going to win. There seems to be
a great many of them, but I. haven't
seen one that will bet as much as 10
cents that the negro wins.
Anyone that says this fight is a
"frameup" (and there is some talk of
that sort going around), all I can say
to these poor unfortunates who may
make assertions of that kind without
any foundation whatever, is that their
place is in some insane asylum, for they
should not be permitted to run around
loose.
As I told my readers that I would give
them the correct dope from the training
quarters, not what I hear, but what I
see, I never saw a man in my life, in
cluding myself, training as hard as Jef
fries is now. I have walked with him
and talked with him. I never saw a man
who was so anxious to win a fight be
fore. At this stage I will not predict
who is going to win the fight, but I
hereby put myself on record, and I know
what I'm talking about, that if Jeffries
does not win, Johnson will have .defeated
the best-trained man that ever stepped
Into a prizering.
MATCH WANTED FOR JAPANESE
Eddie Robinson Says He Has Jlu-
Jitsu Expert In Training.
Eddie Robinson, one of the best
known instructors of physical culture
on the Pacific Coast, who is handling
Young Togo, a Japanese wrestler, is
sues a sweeping defi on behalf of his
entry to all Jiu-jitsu experts on the
Coast.
Rnhlnson would like "to match Togo
against any jiu-jhu wiconei.
white or Oriental, but is especially anx
ious to pit him against a catch-as-catch-can
wrestler and a boxer, using
the Japanese style against the other
systems on the same night and in the
same arena. According to Robinson,
this feat has never yet been attempted
by a Japanese wrestler, and he asserts
that Young Togo is ready to take on
the boxer and the wrestler at any time,
and agrees to prove that jlu-jltsu is the
most 'scientific of the three sports. Ef
forts are now being arranged to match
a well known featherweight boxer and
a wrestler of considerable note with
the little Jap.
HARNESS MEET IS POSTPONED
Rain Softens Track-
Contests to Be
Given Next Saturday.
Owing to the heavy track caused by
the rains of the morning, the scheduled
harness meet to be held by the River
side Driving Club at the track of the
Portland Fair & Livestock Association
yesterday was postponed until next
Saturday.
The local horsemen had expected to
enjoy a first-class day's sport, but the
elements interfered, which necessitated
the postponement. However, the River--side
Driving Club will endeavor to put
the meet on at the same track next
Saturday, when the programme as an
nounced for yesterday will be staged.
KIDDING
NEGRO