Weekly journal-miner., 1910-07-06

every point of the game, and in the
 eleventh rEig GGrbett went down , for the
 pearance in the ring.
 Just prior to his retirement Jeff ! fought four-round draw with Jack
 Munroe at Butte. It was a stay-four- clInging to Jeff all the time. Munroe. after the fight, claimed he had knock ed Jen down. As matter of fact Munroe boasted pihf of his alleged dg e triumph di until Jeff's anger was aroused and another fight arranged. They met in San Francisco, and Munroe went down and out in the second round.
 In his preparation for his fight with Johnson. Jeffries has done the hardest training work he was ever known to undergo His methods have been pe- culiarly his own as a rule. He went tain climbing and the like. and his trainers had little to say about what he did.
 In preparing for Johnson. however. of his training go uncared for. He would not agree to the match until assured by try-out work and the opin- ions ions of , physicians that he was phy;sie Once assured of that, he took up his quarters in the Santa Cruz mountains, sixty miles south of San Francisco, In his camp Jim Corbett, volunteer aid, reigned supreme. Jeff believed Jim was a wise man on matters con nected with care of the body, and he Joe Choynski was there also, and Bob Armstrong: All three of them were past, but they worked hard to prepare him for his last great battle. Among Choynskps unrecorded battles is the defeat via a knockout of Jack Johnson. It was during three-round fight al another of the training squad. He is a wrestler of considerable repute, and not a day of training passed but Jen- ries engaged him in a struggling, haul ing. hefting match.
 Eight years ago. when Johnson be gan to loom on the pugilistic horizon, he urged his managers to make every effort to arrange for fight with Jeff- his boast even in those days, and he fretted continually over the fact that until he acquired a reputation. his prospects, for championshdip .SS .idp battle attI ley's comet. He says he believed then as confidently in his ability to achieve the title as he did six years later, when at last his opportunity to battle for the supreme prize was realized.
 Tt was not my fights themselves, but my fight to get those fights that proved the hardest part of the strug; E }ohPsS0 PsS0un19 tGd bs The aestes 6 reaching the pinnacle of his ambition. 'It was my color. They told me to get a rep; but how was I to get a But I made them fight me. just kept chances to fight I could grab. until sooner or later they'd have to take me on. As soon as I had shown what could do. the fight public-most of the fans, anyway-took sides with me, and AA-& l.1Iw -An1n lot v . s
 Johnson asserts that he has never been apprehensive of possible defeat in any contest he has engaged in. None of them, he declares, had any
 His four most important battles have been fought within the last year and a half, dating from his defeat of Tom Burns in Australia, December 26, 1908. Having wrested the championship from Burns. he determined to meet and de fend his title against all eomers His fights with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. Al Kaufman and Stanley Ketchel fol- lowed in rapid succession.
 On his fights two or three years be- fore, that had brought him prominence career, his contests with Sam Lang ford. the Boston negro, Joe Jeanette. Sam McVey, Denver Ed. Martin, Jim Flynn and others. Johnson lays no par ticuiar stress except to regard them as so many rungs of his ladder of success.
 I'm looking for a fight" asserted Johnson. fin which I really can let let what I can do. That's one reason why I'm so anxious to go up against Jeft- ries."
 judgment of numerous. sporting writ CTS who have maintained for years that the big negro seldom, If ever, ex- tended himself. and was capable of delivered in the ring: It appears to have been a general belief that John son was holding back" This was fight with Stanley Ketchei; In that bout Johnson toyed with his man all the way. He seemed to think the fight. a joke until a slip, and a timely aroused his anger. Just what hap pened next has never been clearly known. It was too fast to watch; and his back and being counted out. He did not seem to realize what had struck him. and Johnson himself seem ed astonished at the result of his sud
 Johnson was born in Galveston, In 1878. his birthday being March Sl. ana if ring experience goes for anything fighter. he fought six fights, winning all but one. which was a draw. The next year he went into the ring six most constantly engaged until to date he has to his credit over sixty battles. While many of his opponents have not been of the style to test his mettle. his frequent bouts have served at least to keep him always in training. and this is one of the strong arguments of his partisans.
 Temperamentaily Johnson is an in- teresting study. His chief characteris- tic is his unfailins good nature. a curiosity constant sort of even tenn per that nothing seems to ruffie, His golden smile'; is seldom out of evil dence and not even the coarse and insulting jibes that frequently greet him from fight spectators seem to have the power to disturb him. Even when ducking a storm of blows and showing wonderful skill in evading the onslaughts of his opponent. John son never loses his boise nor his power of observation. His eyes take in and appraise everything that transpires at the ringside. He seems to hear every comment made by the onlookers, and even in the midst of clinch. when every muscle is tense, will recognize witty sally from the audience with a flash of his ready smile. and. like as not, an equally witty rejoinder thrown | at the audience over the reeking | shoulder against which he is pressing. l
 'Why don't you fight, you black | man?" yelled an enthusiast at the | fight. The men were | in a clinch at the time, but without |