The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
JEFFR|ES PLANS TOUR IF WORLD
If Fighter Regains Champion ship He Will Make Fortune
NEW FIGHTER IN FIELD
Captain of Michigan Football Team Aspires to Be Heavyweight Cham pion But the Road Is Long
 And Devious
By JEFF THOMPSON

 More than change in the holder of the heavyweight pugilistic championship and the supremacy of the Caucasian over the Ethiopian will hinge upon the outcome Of the Jeffries-J ohnson fight in the west on July next, if the fight really takes place.
 If Jeffries wins he will head an all- star aggregation of the greatest boxers l in Ch hristendom for a tour of the world. The tour will last ten months and the promoters hope to clear more than a million of dollars in profits, of which sum more than $15o,0o0 will go to lief fries.
 Jeffries' theatrical tour is practically at an end now, the fast stopping place being Duluth, Minn. Jeff changed his mind about hustling off to Hot Springs, and leaves for the Pacific coast. Speaking of the all-star tour he said
 If I regain the championship, and I will, there is no reason why l should not take advantage of the offer. The defeat of Johnson will make me the worlds champion and people in other countries who did not see the fight would naturally want to see the man who practically represents them before the worlds arena. H. H. Frazee is pro- noting the tour and other members who will be invited to go are Battling Nelson, Frank Gotch, Stanley Ketch- el, Dr. B. r. Roller, the wrestler, Sam Berger. Farmer Burns and some other good men of ability
 The great wide world is going to see a champion whether or no. Jack George Washington Johnson is dividing his time between the punching bag ai tn e geography mapping out tour of tn planet. He will make the trip. if he defeats Jeffries.
 A new champion in the embryo state is scanning the pugilistic horizon. He is Albert Benbrook, captain of tho Uni versity of Michigan football team this year. Al is a powerful big chap and aspires to become heavyweight cham pion of the world He declares that he will witness the Jeffries Johnson fight from the ringside.
 And if Johnson wins" says he, "I shall go into training at once and chai- lenge him next winter" Benbrook has been examined by Floyd Fitzs' nmons, the Benton Harbor boxing promoter, who declares him all to the good. But Albert will find 1t somewhat dif- ficult to pick a quarrel with the world $ champion. After winning a champion ship fight the boxer usually wants to rest for year and on top of this he will fight no one but the person logi- cally next to him. A newcomer, no matter how fast and strong. will have mighty hard picking landing d chal- lenge. The old ring admonition IS al ways forthcoming
 "Aw, go get a reputation" | Able Attell doesn't see where Ketchel and Fitzsimmons and Unholz are get | ting off with $40,0O0 and $3C,0e0 and | S15,000 contracts from Hugh Mcintosh | the millionaire Australian fight promo | ter. Able has to be shown. Attell received a fight offer from Me | Intosh asking what terms were want | ed Then began series of antipodean | ca ables:
 l Abe--"Take s1O.0o0 and two first class round trip tickets to fight three men,"
 1 Huge-"Will give 50 per cent gross receipts and guarantee $250C and two second class round trip tickets Abie-"Will accept 50 per cert gross receipts and $250o guarantee Cor each | fight and tickets
 Hugh-"Best I can do is S25OO guar antee for three fights and 50 per cent gross receipts
 | Abie-"Will take 30 per cent gross receipts and s2boo guarantee for each fght.''
 Hugh-"Will give you 30 per cent gross receipts"
 | Abie-"Nothing doing"
 Hugh--"Ditto."
 And they say Mcintosh offered Ketchel s4o,ooo." said Abe with tear. in his voice." 'Oi, Yoi, Of, Yoi" l When ketchel meets Frank Klause for six rounds in Pfttsburg next month It Will be his first appearance in the ring since Johnson knocked him out.
 Battling Nelson says he will give all the youngsters a show after his fight with Ad Wolgast at Los Angeles on Washington's birthday. After that there Is some possiv..ity of a Nelson Welsh go for final dec.sion on Who is the worlds lightweight champion?'
 Harry Pollock. whose chief fame rests upon his promotion of marathon races ana slx-day blne events, wants to take Stanley Ketchel for a tour of the world
 Pollock thinks he can go Frazee one bet
 ter by snpping off this spring with Ketch- el and Abe Attell and get over the ter
 ritory before the Jeff-Johnson fight is
 pulled off.
 Will the Jeffries-J ohnson fight be a one
 punch affair. Both men possess wicked
 wailop which will, if 1t ever gets squarely hA nttz t> -I~
 may rest assured that the end will not
 come before the twelfth or fifteenth round
 or maybe the thirtieth round. because
 the moving picture men have to be satis.
 fled and 1t would indeed be cruel to punc.
 ture the picture project by ending the fight early.
 Jeffries greatest blow is. a short arm
 left to the wind. When Jeffries tough,
 Tom bharkey he sent his left into the l Tara stomach unfil hia dst vUaa huria6