The San Francisco call., 1910-07-02
ARRIVING EXPERTS
MARVEL AT JEFF
Tim Sullivan, Kilrain, Burns and Hugh
Mcintosh Join Admiring Ranks
BY WILLIAM ]. SLATTERY

they signed articles in New York last
winter.
Its going TO be the greatest fight of
them ALL" said Tim, when he had con-
cluded the Jeffries interview.
"The big fellow is back again, just
as good as he ever was. We all know
that Johnson is there also, so we may
make up our minds that we are going
to see a fight that will go down in his
tory as the bear of them ALL
Burns and Langford and Lang and
Mcintosh and Bill Corbett, the Aus
tralian authority, were early visitors
to the Jeffries camp. They were all
fairly received by James j., received
just about as well as any man could
expect. They watched him closely, got
in on the moving pictures, chatted and
talked and joshed and agreed that Reno
Is a great place.
SURPRISED AT JEFFRIES
Mcintosh fell in line with the others
and told everybody how surprised he
Is to see Jeffries in his present shape.
But still he likes the black champion
to win the battle. He would prefer to
see il rest with the white race, but he
can not forget the way in which john
son won the championship from Tommy
Burns a year and half ago. McIn-
tosh refereed that particular battle,
and therefore he is in a position to
know what he is talking about.
Burns, on the other hand. likes JEFF
fries. Not because Johnson beat him.
he says, but because he believes that
Jeffries is in condition to win and that
he can come back and show the world
in spite of what SO many of the wise
critics have said. Burns still believes
that he can beat Johnson. He wants
another crack at the black monster, but
he does not believe away down deep in
his heart that he can beat Jeffries.
RENO, New, July 1.-"Why is Sam
Langford?'
Ever since the proposed battle with
Langford and kaufman at San Fran
cisco on Saturday last, which was de-
clared off on account of Governor Gill
let's rather acute animosity against
the game. Manager Joe Woodman of the
Boston beaneater and Sam Langford
himself have been hanging around
ready to step into the breach. should
anything happen to James j. Jeffries.
When Sam Langford. who arrived
from the coast today, heard that yes
terday just a miracle saved Jeffries
from an automobile accident, the big
negro declared that he only hoped that
something would incapacitate Jim JEFF
fries so that he might be substituted
for the white man. Langford has
chased Johnson around the country. or
In fact, over two hemispheres. in an
endeavor to get a battle with him. But
the second Joe Wolcott has been un-
successful in his mission. Johnson has
turned him down at every turn When
the battle with Kaufman was declared
off Langford did not stop his training,
but kept on getting ready with the
dim ray of hope before him that JEFF
fries might go wrong or be accidentally
prevented from filing the game. Sam
would step into the ring and endeavor
to demonstrate his ci.sim that he can
beat johnson doing anything.
Joe Woodman, manager for Sam
Langford, realizes now that there is
no chance to get Langford into the
ring with Johnson for a long time TO
come. win or lose, but he Is still there
with the gilt to back his man against
the Galveston coon for any amount OF
money.
''Why. Sam Langford will tight john
son in a chicken roost without a min
ute's preparation, where there isn't any
or anybody else $4,000 that Sam will
tuck him away" declared Joe Wood
man. "I know that Sam can lick John
son and we stand ready to wager our
dough any time the pair hook up IL
only something would happen TO JEFF
fries, maybe Sam might have an oppor-'
tunity to get at Johnson
1t was Woodman's blatant boasts re-
garding his mans ability 10 dispose of
the colored worlds heavy weight cham
pion in any kind Of an encounter that
led up to the ousting OF Woodman from
Johnson's camp the other day.
Bob Armstrong. the colored battler
who is working with Jeffries in prep