The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-07-01
JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON ARE NOW
IN TRAINING.
Crowds Now Flocking to Reno, Nevada,
Where in Week From Today Will
Take Place Big Scrap; the City Is
Likely to Be Short of Accomlmoda-
tons fer Immense Gathering.

Reno. New. June 29.-One week from
today Jim Jeffries and Jack johnson
will meet in Richards arena here in
their $lOl,O 900 purse fight, the retired
champion to get about $4,000 for his
efforts, win, lose or draw and the col
ored champion the remainder.
Reno is hot, dusty, thirsty, revelng
in high prices, eagerly awaiting the
throngs expected from the four corners
OF the world and ready to make Il
big harvest of dollars off the 1900
or more fight fans who will occupy
seats in the alfresco arena,
Not the least agitated of all the
heterogeneous mass of people in the
hazy, sizzling city are the two princi-
pals. Jeffries seems to have intelli-
gently followed him whims in practi
cally fitting himself for the battle,
while Johnson, processing to be Charm
ed" with the Reno air and climate, says
he will taper off on work only on the
last day of this week.
Crowds Flock to the Camps
More automobiles than were ever
known to be located in Nevada were in
evidence today. The dust raised by the
cut-outs of these snorting touring cars
seemed to hang like Il huge fringe over
the town. imparting tropical haze to the
heated air. The town is great wan
ity Fair" with two show sings-one at
,Johnson's quarters and the other at
latf,
accessible by trolley line, attracts the
larger crowds. The latter 20 to Moana
Springs and are not disappointed if
big jeff is not in evidence.
No gambling on Sunday was the
slogan before the fight camps were To-
Gated here. The municipal law per-
mits only such games of chance on the
first day of the week as may be played
without mechanical devices. But yes
terday the clatter of the little white
place the sound if not the eelat of
foreign gambling resort. The big
green cloth covers were spread over the
gambling devices downtown.
Johnson in Good Exhibition.
johnson boxed with Al Kaufman and
Walter Monohan, and the visitors
most of them sllrewd critics looking for
points upon which they might govern,
their betting departed feeling that the
physical condition of Johnson was all
that was required for long, hard bat
tie.
Johnson was full of fire in his work
outs, but his sparring partners seemed
to have fallen under the dolce far niente
of the place-or, to be perfectly candid,
both Kaufman and Monahan were too
soft to stand the heat.
Promoter Richard had good rest
yesterday and last night from his few
erish activities and today is rushing
work on the arena and directing a big
ticket sale. The townspcople are eX
pecting the main invasion of fight fans
to begin about Friday and to reach
the climax on Sunday Many tramps
and stOwaways are daily taken off the
freight trains near this city, while the
Blind baggage fraternity on the pas
senger trains is generally tagged at
Summit, near the snow sheds.
Exodus Begins in New York.
New York, June 21.-The exodus of
sporting men to Reno is now on.
Large numbers of fasteners left here
today for the ,Jeffries johnson fighting
ground, and by Wednesday all will have
departed who intend to witness the
championship mill. Opinion on the out
come still favors Jeffries, but there has
been little betting, most of those in
tending to wager preferring to place
their money at the rngside, where they
can obtain the latest information Oh
the fighting form of the combatants.
John +. Madden and Tom O'Rourke,
two of tine best known managers and
trainers of pugiists in the country,
are strong in their opinion that .Jeffries
will win, while Joe Humphries says he
is roofing for Jeffries, but doubts
whether the white man can turn the
trick.