The Washington herald., 1910-06-28
Big Crowds Arrive on the
Grounds Early.
ARMSTRONG FIRST PARTNER
Negro Does Not Relish Job OF Box
Ing with the BOiIermaker-BacIGs
Quickly Away When JefPs Club
like Left Comes Forward I'm "a
Feint-BIack Spars Three Rounds.

is helping to make Reno q name in the
worlds mouth wherever wires spread.
What happened this morning at Moana
Springs before the sun was well up over
the ragged top Of the Washoe range may
be described as typical of what has been
happening for a few days and what VIII
continue to be daily morning ceremony
until July 4.
Remember that this ceremony is an
important thing. hedged about by awe.
that within an hour after its compile
tion 10000 words for the worlds reading
have been put on the wire, and that
within another hour or two several mil
lion people will be reading these words
between the coasts.
An event which plumps into the worlds
interest from beneath a cottonwood tree
IN a green valley OF Nevada sends It "a
overwhelming circles over wire and cable
until the clocks hands have made a COM
plete swing.
Then there is another plump. and again
the ripples spread.
There is a valley, blue-green with al
falfa, a sun-baked range Of mountains
on the east and the snow splotched
Sierra on the west.
sprawling white bathhouse over a
hot soda spring on one side Of a dusty
road and on the other a low cottage
covered with vines Behind the cottage
is a tent and the tumbled bedding on a
cot with II always holds the spectators
interest for a minute. His bed is near
the tent, and just where two cottonwood
trees mingle their branches TO make a
shade is a small dancing platform. In
the middle OF this a red-painted canvas
is stretched taut. and it's surface IS COW
cred with little Jumps of rosin and rosin
dust
Newspaper Men Get Tip.
On the night before Jack Johnson
draws this or that newspaper man aside
and whispers in his ear that he had bet
ter get out to the Springs early next
morning, for the big fellow Is going to
get at work before the sun Is too hot
Brother Jack gives this advice tenta-
lively and with an air as If IN some
degree beiraying a confidence; he only
thinks that such will be the morrow
programme, and ne leaves IL up 70 the
yigilant newspaper men 10 act accord
ngly
The electric car that leaves Virginia
street IN the center OF Reno at 7.3i
o'clock the next morning Is comfortably
crowded. There are ten or a dozen ex-
pert observers who sign the articles that
less famous scribes write for them q
handful OF newspaper photographers, ans
fifteen or twenty early rising sports who
have dropped into town from Pacih,
Coast points in good season to size up ths
situation before they wager their money
on the big fight
OF the plain citizens OF Reno ther,
are at least a dozen women, freshly
starched as to their summer frocks. and
eagerly chattering about Mr. Jeffries and
AIr. Johnson, their respective punche,
and modes of defense. A fellow with
SCARED face who is going ont TO tn,
grounds only with his bundle OF Jeffrie.
pennants or Vanished canes tells a Eel
loW-passenger. whose wandeTings hav,
made him kin 10 the flag dealer, how
when he was chief water tender on the
battle ship Ohio at Manila Sailor
Schiossberg, of New Jersey, pounded
Beefy Jenny, of the Kings navy, to
pulp by using the Jeffries left hook K
the stomach.
Crowds Arrive Early.
By $40 o'clock there We're 100 people
about the dancing platform in the yard
of the training quarters at the springs
An easy application Of the privilege oi
caste divides the crowd The newspaper
| writer's and one or two chosen friends o.
the fighter take seats along the fom
sides OF the platform. Among these i:
a novelist of the red-blood school. who
has Just landed from the night trair
from the East and who has hurried ouf
to the scene of the ceremony withour
waiting for breakfast There is a mar
who has come posthaste from Deatl
| Valley via Goldheld. He left his paci
train at Goldheld, but be still has on hi!
khaki habit little seams and creases o
alkau dust Behind the privileged be
| ings and at a respectful distance stanC
| the plain citizens of Reno, men and
women, and, as was the case this morn
ing, a four-year-old boy in starche(
knickerbockers and baby In arms.
| A long. lanky negro, in long batl
robe, comes through the kitchen doc
and climbs onto the platform. That's
| Bob Armstrong, one of the trainers anS
a sparring partner, Then through th'
| door comes jeffries. He is naked abov'
| the waist and his legs are bare below
| the knees The experts have said tha
| he is a massive man, and IN the pink o
condition He is a massive man, witt
| shoulders like the piston boxes OF on
of the big engines that pull trains ul
the mountains into California. When h
swings his arms. low-hanging bags o
muscle outline the bases of his shoulde
| blades, hex and tense, their outstand
| ing ridges giving the mans back
strange, square appS..@aee that seem
abnormal The two ridges OF pectora
muscle sway and harden into ova
mounds with each movement Of I'll
mans body.
The fighters face Is fatty unemotIona'
| He goes about his business with the dis
passionate air of pick handler on tn
railroad tracks, but before he has bee
| In action five minutes. he makes it plai
that this mauling and jabbing is as seri
Gus q business with him as order sale
over the phone are for a Wall stree
broker.
| Negro Puts on Gloves.
The negro drops his bath robe an
both put on the gloves. While they
so the interlude is filed with nodding
and whisperings among the select spec
tators on the benches. The novelist pull
out a gold-leafed note book and 1ot
something down. after running a carefl
eye over the 20 pounds Of fighting fies
in front of him. Pop Van Court, gra,
little man, whose name is potent in III
pugi1stic world because he discovered
Corbett and other fighters of lesser part
| In his business OF boxing instruction
moves over to the expert reporters aDC
with his hand in front Of his mouth, iI
vites them 10 consider for themselve
how Jeffries has dried in the last thre
days.
Jeffriss aud the negro begin To spa