Arizona republican., 1910-07-04
WILL II BE THE BEAR
 0R THE TIGER
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quished .honors, driven into the ring
 by popular clamor.
 And today Jeffries and Johnson
 face each other in what virtually is a
 fight to a finish. For Johnson it IS the fruition of his years of hoping and planning and fighting. For Jef- fries it is-what? He >has yielded to the pressure of public opinion. He has re-entered the ring after five years of easy, comfortable living. years when age was etching it's wrin- kled device upon his forehead, when his mighty muscles grew soft and flabby from disuse, and when, the rigors and self denial of training forgot, he cared nothing for the growth of his waist line He never intended to fight again. And had the championship remained in the keeping of a white man, he never would have fought again.
 FOR RACIAL REASONS.
 So, after all, it is Johnson's black skin that has won him his chance to fight Jeffries
 When the gong signals the fighters to their work tomorrow, they will be surrounded by the greatest gathering of sport lovers the world has ever seen. Row after row, rising toward the sky line, the spectators will fill the great octagonal structure that has been built to stage this fight of fights. In gate money they will rep resent approximately half a million dollars. The crowd has come from all quarters of the globe to see the giants battle There are men from London and Paris, from Berlin, and even from Manila, and the cities of Australia, Japan and China. It. is doubted if there is a town of any size in the United States or Canada that is not represented by at leaat one man. Tickets were booked months ahead, and special trains were run the breadth of the country to bring the multitude together.
 Physically, both Jeffries and John son are remarkable men. They are big men in every way, and yet are scientific boxers, fast in every motion of their great bodies, with wonderful control of the blows they launch, and ! which are backed by the power of a | steam ram. Their superiority over l the rank and file of heavyweights l was won because of this combination | of skill with great strength, of judg- | ment and clear head work with the l greatest offensive force.
 Jeffries is a bigger man than John son, but they are more evenly matcn- ed than any two heavyweights who have entered the ring in many years. What Johnson lacks in size he makes up for in skill, and in the fact that he has never known a period of physical relaxation such as Jeffries has enjoyed for the past five years.
 HAS JEFFRIES COME BACK?
 Right there is the second question that is to be decided tomorrow-the question to which all fightdom hasl been seeking the answer since this fight was first suggested-Could Jef- | fries come back ?"
 Jeffries thought he could and be- Iieves that he has. His opinion as to the possibility of restoration was based upon the statements of re- foreign physicians who ex- amined him. It was a question he could not answer himself when the desire to fight Johnson first came to him. He doubted that he could re- gain such physical condition as would warrant his return to the ring, and because of that doubt he refused to discuss the natter although the sporting writers of the whole country were trying to draw him out. It became known, however, that he was beginning to take care of him. self again; that physical exercises were the order of the day at his home; and that the old war horse was feeling himself out in a tenta- tive way. The results pleased him, and then came his trip abroad and { reports from the medical (