The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-19
JACK JOHNSON IS BLUFFING ON
 "JEFF' FORFEIT
The Big Smoke Has Not As Yet Covered the Unde-
 feated Champs $5,0O0
RING SIDE GOSSIP

It's mighty hard to determine which of the two is indulging the, most in the merry game of bluff. Jack Johnson or Jim. Jeffries. In the stories sent out to the coast. Johnson is quoted by a prominent Chicago fistic chronicler as saying: '.Oh, that's all right, my five thousand is up with the New York Ev..ning Journal" The question of for,eits had come up. Sam Berger sta ed. and rightly. that .Jeffries' mon- ey was in the hands Of a New Yorker. When Johnson said that his s5.0o0 was up at the New York Journal of1ce-if he really said such a ething-he was foling nobody. He did post that a certain number of days for Jeffries to cover. He stipulated that in case Jeffries cared not for the issue, the first man who covered it with a like amount could have a chance at the title. Little Willie Britt walked in late one night and handed the Journal five one thousand dollar bills.
 , That money was covered then and there. and on the following cay John son agreed to meet Ketchel and the Q side bet. It was the understanding that the money would be sent to Uncle Bill Naughton. sporting editor of the San Francisco Examiner It was sent. 1k agreed that Naughton should pay over to the remaining boxer the entire amount in case either ducked the is- sue.
 On several occasions Johnson has ann ounced that he has 5000 posted here. in New York. He hasn't. That moEey is to be fought for, and it doesn't go for any Jeffries forfeit or for any other purpose 1t is to be battIed for as a side bet in the contest of October 12
 Sc if Johnson is correctly quoted, he is laboring under delusion that the five thousand dollars he posted here goes for anything he might suggest. It doesn't If Johnson fails to come across with the money in the JeffrieS case, he will be@accused of all the fly by-night tactics they're now laying at the door of James Jackson Jeffries himself.
 There fought at the Sharkey club last night Dixie Kid Dixie is cullud and he has as hard punch for middle as the books record Joe Humphreys brought Terry McGovern to San Francisco to try and wipe out that Young Corbett disgrace. As a training partner he brought from Brooklyn, Eddie Cain Joe told us what demon Edward was so they locked about for a real tough one for Edmund. Dixie was just the boy.
 They warmed the ring for Terry. Came out of their corners and the hard hitter from Brooklyn made a pass. He missed. Dixie let fly and caught the rubber plant man right smack on the point. He collapsed be- fore he should have. In falling, his leg curled in a lifeless way under him and the bone in his ankle snapped It was just about the first time in the history of the ring that a man had his leg broken from punch on the jaw.
 
 the best lightweights ever produced in California. is making his last fight out West. He's the same curley headed chap who was introduced at the Fair mont several months back. He start ed to train for Leach Cross and was compelled to stop, as it became ap- parent that he was a victim of the white plague.
 He was sent back home and took to the mountains in the hope that the light altitude would baffle the reaper. From there he was sent to a sani- tarium at Ukiah. He begged to be taken back to the scene of his triumphs. They give the little fellow | just month more to live. He fought Johnny Frayne three times Lew Pow | ell three times, Johnny Thompson, Ed die Hanlon. Freddie Welch and others He was said to be the gamest little 1 man ever developed there
 Joe Wagner and Hughey McGovern have finally been matched. Jim Shor- tell had them sign to meet before the Bedford club on the night of Sept. G.. It is the finale of the bantam rumpus, and it will be a great fight. They are to meet at 116 pounds.
 Charlie SieEer. the Hoboken Iron man. had all the better of the milling with Paddy Sullivan. the Fighting Irfshman. in the ten-round bout that featured the show of the sharley club last night Siexer outpointed Sullivan In tho op6nfnE round and iu f1& nne-