The Washington times., 1910-07-04
Just at 1:3O Billy Jordan
Will Roar Out
Signal.
THOUSANDS PACKING
INTO THE BIG ARENA
On Eve of Battle Expected Short
ening of Odds Fails 10
MaterialiZe.
RENO. July 4-'Let rer gorr


AT $50 .. N. Old Billy Jordan viii
leap out Of the white-musIiu bound
ropes at Tex Richards brand-nevv
arena, roaring his celebrated starting
signal; the huge gong viii be changed
at a signal from George Harrius
the veteran timekeeper. and the arEu-
T'erit VIII start in the case OF James
J JeHriss vs. John Arthur Johnson
From every State in the Union. from
Canada. Mexico ALASKA the British
Isles and Europe-evea from far-oE
Australia lovers Of the lighting game
have 5uurneyed over land and sea 20
the undressed lumber shrine Of the
great sod. WaIIop, which, reared On
q sage brush covered plain. a mile and
a half outside the city. VIII this after
noon be the scene OF the greatest
battle between two human beings
that the world has ever seen since
Christianity drove the Eladiators from
the Roman Forum. mad guuDowder
ClSaTmed the aru0red knight OF the
halcyon days Of chiEalrE--
The purse OF S101-001 or he winners
8 per cent OF IL thousands Of dollars
IN moving picture ur--S-S- and the
honorS OF heading the worlds list of
which viii SCI these Wo -UiElrE mod
ern glac-s--e-~ at one another
Contrary 70 general -N-errarl0l the
shortening OF the odds La-= morning
failed 10 ulre-La-lze- When Tom Cor
bert-s ucolroou opened E1r the day the
price was 10 TO f-
Armed Men Patrol Streets
Armed men patrolIed the streets OF
Reno today
Roulette wheels spun uerriIr and the
main th0rO-Ehfa-as were thronVed by
thousands that awaited the arrival Of
Jehries and johnson
Reno was awake VII the dawn.
Every word from the training camp was
awaited aazioyz5vr end wneu the news
came that both men were up and IN
the best Of spirits cheers went up from
thousands OF -hroa-s
Peace hung over the training camps
today after all the excitement Of the
strenuous period through which each
fighter has passed Berger and C0rbe-t
patched up their differences and the
manager was selected TO be one Of the
white champions seconds The others.
peSldes CorbeLt- were lJehfitt Na1cour-r
Jack JeEr-eSr Joe CLJyuSki- Farmer
Burns, and Roger. Cornell
Johnson s selections Tor the men IN MS
corner were Billy Delaney Al Kaufman.
Walter Burns and Emil Furey. time
keeper, Stanley kecCEEI-
Billy Delaney, the man who coached
jim JeGTieE from ObscurIry 10 The cham
Iioushlp, this morning had a final con-
ference with his new Droreger opponent
Of his former Delaney is in the Cu0O-
site corner 10 that occupied by another
of his old pupils besides JefETieS-J i'm
CorbeCr- When Jeff was helping CO-beLr
train ar Carson for the fight With FECZ-
simmons thirteen years ago. Delaney
had already produced one title holder,
Corber-
The camp managers this morning took
care that there should be no air Of TN
E1ual strain AT the quarters of the fight
eTs- The day was set going in she
usual malIer- The final bit OF work 20
make the muscles plant was performed
in each case with good viii and prelic-
rions of victory
Jefries tUmbIed out Of bed smiI-
ing 'Im Et as G fiddle" he said
laughing as the question greeted
him Couldn't feel any better Take
there's only been one negro heavy
weight champion and there won't be
that many for very long
Johnson Is Happy
Johnson gave the top of the morn
ing to his admirers with no less Ger
tainty Of victory
-1Iistah JefTles says he'll win I
say III win Vow yo- just wait a
bit and see who's right" the negro
said with q show Of his gold teeth
I'm in perfect trim I'm out TO
keep the title and I'm going TO DO it,
since STgrtCcu realized that Gov
erD0r Glllert Of CaIifo5 MIA was in
earnest In barring the big fight and
the scene was shifted TO the eastern
foot OF the SierraS Reno has been q
cray town Today the climax the
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