Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-18
MEANS RINGS MOST
 DESPERATE BATTLE
jEFFRiEs' HATRED FOR JoHNsoN ASSURES VICIOUS FIGHT IF
 THEY MEET.
WANTS TO BEAT HIM UP
Ex-champion Says He Will Try to Batter Negro 5adIy-Mentions the Munroe Battle-several Big Of fers Made for the Fight

When Jim Jeffries climbs through the ropes to fight Jack Johnson for tie worlds heavyweight championship the spectators at the ringside are likely to see one of the most vicious battles ever witnessed in a prize ring.
 JeTrfes hafes Johnson and makes DO effort to conceal the fact It was reported from San Francisco several years ago that the retired champion and Johnson. met in Tom Corbett's saloon one day and the big black asked Jeffries to fight him.
 In a rage the ex-boiler maker drew purse from his pocket, threw it on
 the bar and shouted:
 T have announced that never would fight a negro. but to stop your talk. I have just this to say: There's about s10,000 in that bunch of money. Now you and will go down in the cellar by ourselves. There1l be no
 referee and the best man win win.
 If you can put me out you can come
 up here ard take the money. If | lick
 you tt will cost you nothing, except
 possibly your life. for I warn you
 that I'll try to kill you with my fists These are the only terms on which
 I'll fight nigger."
 Johnson refused. so went the story
 which has since been denied. True
 or not, it is an indication of Jeffries feeling toward Johnson. When lief
 fries retired from the game because
 fIera wac -D ono f., Hoh+ b;r, T-1.-,,,v- Burns. by beating Marvin Hart. get tEe championship title. Then John son followed Burns, who was not a champion of the class of Jeffries, Fitzsimmons, Corbett or Sullivan, to Australia and whipped him in II
 rounds. This put a different situation up to Jeffries. He rayed to think ] that a negro, especially Johnson, should be called the best fighter in the business. He couldn't stand the | idea at all. Consequently, having
 found that he can get into condition.
 he is going into the ring again with the sole purpose of putting the white 1 man back into supremacy in ;. the | pugiIistic world
 ] Jack Johnson is the only rnan 1 l will meet outside of Jack Munroe
 that I will go into the ring against | feeling that I want to beat him up badly. And when Jack and I meet you'll see what will happend," said 1 Jeffries recently. The big heavy | weight simply scowled when asked aDout Johnson and showed that he I vas obviously in i'll temper. I'm in flrst-cIass shape,' he said; i; that's the only reason I've hesitated l about this match I've trained as hard as any man could do when he was ] abroad. Of course. it's bad tc got ! back into the harness after four l years Of Ioafng around. but l think i I can do it. have kept away simply
 because wanted to make sure of
 my wind first.
 1 It's the wind that counts, boys.
 You newspaper men don't appreciate l! how much depends on a mans lasting i qualities. As a general thing, it's a ] short sprint for you from some as
 signment to your own office. But in | the ring it's got to be a fight against
 man who may worry you for long l time.
 Its only once, as I said before, l 1 went in the ring with hard feeling against the man I was to meet. That 1 was Munroe. He had been bragging