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Angry at the Writers.

This type of reportCral running amuck
has done much to make Jeff and us
training associates gruffy intolerant OF
all journalistic agents, including the news
paper photographers, who have beset his
waking hours and have respected his
hours of sleep only because night lights
are not good for photography. Some OF
the San Francisco newspapers have bit
terly resented this treatment and as a
result the Rowardennan camp has come
in for lot of caricaturing and warm
roasting" There were charges that
certain local photographer. who appeared
to enjoy unusual facilities, had been
granted a pictorial monopoly. A circular
letter sent out long ago to the newspapers
of the country, with the apparent sane
ton of Sam" Berger. Jeffries manager,
was made the foundation for like charges
of an attempt to mCnopolZe news reports
from the training camp. or course both
Jeffries and Berger have Indignantly re-
pudiated all interest in any attempted
news and picture trust. but charges of
rank commercialism have been rife here
nevertheless.
on the very day the training camp was
opened there arrived. one from Frisco
and the other from Omaha. a pair of
accomplished professional gamblers. who
promptly took possession of one of the
most commOdious of the rustic cottages
which compose the Rowardennan colony
and soon had installed therein a beautiful
aggregation OF faro, roulette, craps anu
poker layouts. Evenings were rather dull
In the camp. They undertook to provide
some diversion, and for a night or two
they did. AS a result OF the first innings
a San Francisco wine agent and a Ger
man count who was doing America
were retired to the players bench in
short order. and certain California
scribes and photographers had three-bag-
gers battcd through their expense ac-
counts.
Then there were more accusations
of commercialsm. Jeffries and Ber-
ger again repudiated and protested. They
had nothing to do with the gentlemen
who provided the evenings entertain
ment, they said. The hotel manager
that is, if the rustic bungalow may be
called a hotel, and if it may be said to
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have been managed-also did some repu-
dating And when the Frisco news
papers continued their .roasts'' and made
them more venomous the manager. who
is gifted at repartee, remarked: To -
with the newspaper men"
SO some of the reporters, refusing to
accept the 'hotel' managers suggestion
literally. went to San Francisco and
framed up some more pleasantries. They
playfully dubbed the camp Camp Row
dedow' and the Rowardennan Hotel the
Hotel Shinnerdennan." The cartoonists
depicted the JeffrieS combination as the
Old mems home" and sketched Farmer
Burns, Berger and the redoubtable white
champion himself with shriveled bicepS,
sunken shoulders and venerable Whiskers.
All this was wearing upon the nerves Of
the astute Mr.. Berger, who is no novice
in the art of newspaper publicity. There
was some frank conversation one evening
on the porch OF the hotel. 1t was pointed
out that reputation of the little game
in the cottage had perhaps been received
with some SkepticisIn owing to the fact
that posters conSpicuouSly displayed on
the hotel front and throughout the Ro-
Wardennan reservation showed charming
photographs of the palace of chance con-
Quoted by the gentleman from Frisco
and the gentleman from Omaha over
captions which represented it as the
$1,000 home of the Jeffries Club
1t was suggested that cynical and carp
ing persons who had followed the bidding
of this poster and had come up from
Frisco ito see Jeffries in training" might
draw the inference that Mr.. .Jeffries real
~ had some connection with the ''Jefffies
Club, and might not go home perfectly
happy after seeing nothing more exciting
than chance to buck roulette wheel
or a crap game.
After that conversation things began to
happen. Mr.. Jefries, who had been as
affable as "a teething hippopotamus hith-
ertO, grew is tame as house-broken kit
ten. He was almost urbane. He and
Berger and Dick" Adams started a per-
sonally conducted tour of the grounds
and extended cordial invitation to every
reporter and photographer in the reser-
walton to "come over to 'Jeffs' cottage
and sit on the porch with him Every
body went, of course. for the kings in
vitation is the imperial command. Jeff
really tried to be affable. The big fellow
Is never voluble, but he was as amiabe
for once. as a life insurance agent. He
stood for all the photographs the cam
era brigade could wish and for half an
hour the shutters We're clicking like tele-
graph keys. He talked of this. that and
the other, but not a word of fsticuffs or
physical condition.
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he weighed o2S pounds when ne OesaI
work and that he will scale close 70 ~
when he enters the ring to meet Jenrles
AS he says he Is In good condition now
much doubt If he weighs as much as they
say. or that he will take OF twentE-elgnt
pounds in his training. Seven weeks is
ample time for Johnson to get into shape
for he has kept himself in good conoltlon
by his contests and Ia not the klno OF
man to take on much fat. He Is charg-
ing an admission fee to his gymnasium
quarters. which might indicate that fail
ure to get the big end OF the one-hu.,
dred -one-thousand-dollar purse wouio
be offset by adopting this means or oe-
fraying his training expenses or POSSIBLY
$500 week.
The effort to bring Tommy Burns and
Sam Langford together in San Francesca
September for a twenty thousa nd-doliar
purse ought to be productive OF g. COCO
scrap This contest. II clinched. would
seemingly bar for a time fight over the
long route by Langford and Ketchell. AS
to the latter contest. the idea seems to
be gaining ground that these two men
did not do their best in their Philadelphia
six-round bout. and that Langford stalled
to give ketchel chance to make good
showing. If this is true it would be bet
ter. perhaps. to forget them Tor time.
Ketchell, at any rate. ought to be given
chance to meet the winner or the
Papke-Thomas fight. which would be
more to his liking. probably. than another
match with Langford. who seems to be
in a higher class.
Comment on Ad Wolgast.
So Ad wolgast has decided that he
won't fight Harlem Tommy Murphy be-
cause when matched to fight Battling
Nelson Tommy gave a signed statement
to Pittsburg paper that Wolgast was q
dub Well, a poor excuse is better
than none. But list to this one. Wolgast
says he will meet Packey Mcfarland
should the Chicagoan defeat Freddie
WEIGH in England, provided Mcfarland
can weigh in at 1873 pounds three hours
before entering the ring" Seems to me
that it would be good thing to throw
away this weighing-in business by men
who claim to be in the same class. Theirs
ought to be some means OF determining
to what class each fighter really belongs
I hope we shall never get back to that
Philadelphia lightweight class OF Zeig-
ler's days.
Out west they-the ministerial forces
are resoluting against the dissertation OF
the nations great patriotic holiday by
holding the fight on July 4. Seems to me
this great patriotic holiday had some
thing to do with scrapptng. Long live
those Pittsburg ministers who took issue
with the bishop who said that the coming
great mill was "a barbarous relic OF
savage times and worse than a bullfght.
and more power to Mayor Seidei. VINO
told the committee of clergymen that he
wouldn't stop the boxing bouts in Mil
waukee.
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jeff Talks Base Ball.

Reclining easily in a rocking chair. the
burly fighter discussed base ball records
and batting averages. He has no patience
with the fan" who thinks "Ty' Cobb
as good a base ball artist as Hans Wag-
ner Wagner" he says, sententiousIy
lis the greatest base ball player who ever
lived. Cobb Is good, but he has not mad
10 bat against National League pitchers"
Another phenomenon was noted about
the time of this afternoon tea at the
Jeffries cottage. Patronage had been fall
ing off in that other cottage where the
gentleman from Omaha and the gentle
man from Frisco had the impudence to
operate crap games and roulette wheels
under the sign manual of the "Jeffries
Club. and they were looking proportion
ately sad 1t was Sunday evening and
there We're some visitors from the city
1t should have been a harvest night for
the ''Jeffries Club, but nobody seemed
anxious to tempt Dame Fortune Won
dering what wrong. the gentleman
from Frisco, about o'clock, Sauntered
up to the motel for quiet reconnois-
sance and this is what he saw: A cozy
fire blazing in the fireplace of the hotel
parlor and the room filled with camp fol-
lowers and guests, who were listening
entranced-''Farmer Burns among their
number-while Sam Berger and the
talented correspondent of the Associated
Press alternated reading aloud the poetic
gems of Rudyard Kipling.
The gentleman from Frisco gasped.
Who has ever heard of such thing in
the training camp of a pugiliSt? It's
no USE, he murmured, and the next day
the "Jeffries Club closed its doors. The
crap table and the roulette wheels were
laid away, and On the afternoon train
from Ben Lomond the gentleman from
Omaha and his wife and child were
gloomy passengers Rowardenran kept
/, the lid on for week or more and the
Frisco newspapers reported the gambling
annex closed. Since then the times ap-
peared to have become somewhat better.
The "Jeffries Club has reopened its
doors and there is something doing
now and then, but the evening kipling
readings remain a popular counter at
traction.
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fire sign, with Taurus, the earth sign.
serves to steady him, for fire and earth
go together. He is quick in thought and
action. secretive good planner. knows
what ne is going to do beforehand, counts
the cost before starting in. and is not
afraid of results. He will drive his prof.
ects through to completion.
In this fight he considers he has a prin-
cfple at stake. He counts himself the
champion of the whole white race He
feels that the negro has no right to place
himself on an equality with any white
man. and therefore he is the white cham-
plon against black usurper. and he pro-
poses to teach him lesson. With him
! there is no personality about it, only prin-
ciple. And just because there IS a principls
he feels 1t his duty to fight for it. He long
ago set mark for himself-and that mari.
was victory and its goal was victory.
therefore, watch how careful he is i'm re-
gard to his habits. preparatiob for train
ing and the men that he surrounds him
self with. Only one thing can be said
against him. that lie has broken train
ing. and that men who break training
are apt not to get back into it again.
johnson.
Johnson Is a mixture OF Mars and
Jupiter. Of Areas the Fire sign and
Pisces the Water sign. bad combina-
ton. for Fire and Water never mix;
they are natural enemies. Instead of
taking the best qualities of the sign
he seems to have chosen the worst Of
them. He is of rowing disposition,
strongly opinionative. Selfish jealous.
hot-tempered recklesSly impetuous and
fckle. He plunges recklessly into folly;
he has lack Of memory, * curious, I'M
reasonably stubborn, is afraid OF ridi-
Guile and really lacks confidence in his
own power. He is filled with self-esteen.
has been arrested twelve times, mostly
for recklessly endangering human life
with the use of automobile. He Is
tickle, has broken his contract twice with
two theaters and has had his baggage at
tached. He is careless of his physical
condition and drinks continually. He is
hot-tempered Look at the Stanley
Ketchell fight, where he rushed his man,
knocked his teeth out and fell spraw Wiling
clear over him. He has never yet met a
big man. His great weakness Is his
stomach He lacks judgment-brutat
force with him predominates. He lacks
both the character and brains of his
white opponent.
The Result.
The fight will not last twelve rounds.
At first Jeffries will play with Johnson.
continually telling him what he thinks
Of him, and he will get him ratified and
really scared, for Johnson is a coward at
heart for at last he will realize that ms
time has come Finally. Jeffries VIII
knock him out with body blow.
JOHN DE WITT.
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Langford and Kaufman.

NEW YORK, May o1.-After many I'M
successful attempts a match has finally
been arranged between Al Kaufman. the
big California heavyweight, and Sam
I.angford, the colored pugilist of Boston.
They will come together in twenty
round bout at a show to be- held in
Dreamland Rink by the Metropolitan
A. c. of San Francisco on the night of
June Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
INQUISITlVE FANS

Sporting Editor Star: Please advise me through
the Sunday sporting sheet whether or NOT the u~
Dire's ruling was correct on the following play
second and third are occupied. with two out
The batter hits pop fly back OF thru % Ease hc
TO run to first and threw his bat down IN o,s,
gust a anS fhe ne etnr that the bali
twisting and would probably fall on fair ground;
sssean to dr Gpp 70 the BALI
the batter out because OF failure 70 run 10 nss
base. maintain that the decision u ,rs+ hase
provided he could reach there prior 10 the pali
being held on that bag or before . being touched
with the ball while running 70 nrst oaee'
Thanking you in advance. remain
very MA .rSiy Err Nassau Athletic Club.
The decision was incorrect.
Sporting Editor Star: A batter makes three.
base hit and In running the bases fails to tou sa
hnt the opposing players do not. The base run
ner remains on third base and play is resumed.
toucS o the bag he allows him to score: the op
nosinp team did not see it. This makes one run
Tor the base runner, although he has not touched
frs first or ba not, Should the umpire ~ L. II. B.
The umpire was not DONG MS outy IL
he saw the runner not touch the bag
and did not call him out.
Sporting Editor Star: Kindly answer the fol
lowing In next Sundays sporting edition: i: In
Il recent game between NorIoih auu ~ u. .. 3
batter hits to short and passed first base after
the ball caught, but ball slips out OF me
baseman's hands: the batter has turned 10 the
left toward second, and IN coming oaSx 10 AZ.
the first baseman touches him and the umpire os
clares him out. II this Is correct kina!f eApa,n
the new rule 10 me about turning either way;
=. Batter has two strikes and NOTICES pan aoo Mi
I've wild pitch. strikes at 1t and reaches secohG u
What record should be made: lhahAius sou -"
advance. 80 "
I. The decision was correct. The rule
gives the umpire the right TO judge
Whether the player was making an Ell
fort to reach second, but the mere turn
ing one way or the other after crossing
first does not make player naple 10 De
put out. ..;,-,t ,a
a wild pitch.
Sporting Editor Star: To settle dispute kind.
" tell me, in your own opinion: was NOT ueoIse
browne, now with the Washington, Amerlca Nh
League team, as good an 'all-around PLAYER as
any player now in the American league.
mean. OF course, when he was PLAYING nus Des Pew
with the New York Giants. Your OPINION ~ luis
matter will be greatly appreclateu oE pEA ca va
cerned.
Brownies record during his best days
with the Giants showed him to be
most valuable player.
Sporting Editor Star: Kindly answer In your
sporting columns next smnd lam ~ ~ Warner
aioie. johnson, Mathewson. READEh.
rnoficial figures give Wagner $4,000.
atoie 81 500. johnson $4,000 and Mathew
son 5000.
Sporting Editor Star: Is a batter charged with
..time at bat il he reaches first base on ac-
count OF an error! l. II. AAs-A''
Yes.
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No Fight Talk for jeff.

The palpable reason is that the impe.
rious Jeff won't have it. He will neither
discuss the fight himself nor will he per
nit its discussion in his presence. The
big fellow is not much of a converse iona
artist at best, but If he chances to feel in
"a good humor and to have forgotten for
the moment what most of his acquaint-
ances have come TO regard as chronic
crouch about nobody knows what, he viii
row range of his mental gamut-that Is
10 say, any topic except the fight. That
particular subject is positively tabooed.
Many of the newspaper men who have
come here with the laudable hope Of faith
oming Jeffries' innermost thoughts on the
one theme over which fstiana will con-
tinue to be convulsed until next Independ-
ence day have gone home sadder but
wiser men. One SUCH whom the burly
fighter described not inaptly as "a cub re-
porter" sailed into camp breeZily enough
a few days ago and thus hailed the
mighty one as the fighter stretched his
limbs and raised his huge torso from the
outdoor couch on the porch, where he
sleeps by preference In good weather:
Hello, Jeff. How do you feel? How
many rounds do you think it will take
to whip the nigger?'
He wllo-must- be-obeyed simply sncrted
and turned over upon the postpfandial
couch. Narrating the incident afterward,
when the crestfallen sub" had returned
to San Francisco with an empty news
basket, Jeffries said with a srunt of dis
gust:
Il am here 10 train and not to answer
fool questions. If | could tell the idiot
today how long it would take me to whip
Johnson what would L be here for, sweat
ing and working like a horse from sun
rise to dark for weeks and months before
the fight?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

at Georgetown, Bridwell went to a
jerkwater college in Ohio. the great
Mathewson is from Bucknell, Meyers, tnc
big lnjun. went TO dartmouth.
Roy Thomas of Boston went to the
University of Pennsylvania. Coffey
now with Indianapolis. attended Ford
ham: Beaumont. now with Chicago. is
from Beloit College; Shean is from a
college now apparently forgotten, and
some of the other Beans are probably
university men.
OF the Brooklyns, Mcmillan went to
a southern college. McElveen to some
university in the south. Scanlon to a
medical college and Wilhelm almost
twenty years ago was the crack pitch
err of an Ohio school.
Overall of the Cubs was a foot ball
star at a California university, Reul-
bach pitched for Vermont and Notre
Dame. Chance went to a California
college and Hoffman. Kane and Stanley
got pretty well along in the education
a. line
Higgins a Lawyer.
Higgins of the Cardinals went to law
school, Dubec to Notre Dame. and per-
haps some more of Griffiths men are
from the little colleges. Grant of the
Phillies is from Martell. Catholic col
lege, and Sparks is from a school in
Alabama.
The champion Pirates. on the face OF
the return seem shy of college men. but
it is quite probable that some of them
were rah-rahs. and have forgotten to an
nounce the fact.
Stroke of the Cardinals is from Brown
Bachman is a pitcher from Case Tech.
fright name Barton); Beebe is from the
University of Illinois.
Heitmuller of the Athletics is from a
California school. Collins is from Column
bia. Davis is from Girard College, Phila-
delpha; Barry is a Holy Cross man;
Plank halls from Gettysburg College.
Coomhs from Colgate and Bender, the
Indian, from Carlisle.
Stahl of the Boston Red Sox Is from
Illinois University; Hooper got a civil
engineering degree upon the coast, Hahn
of the White Sox went to some tiny
school of Ohio or Tennessee; Reilly is a
Yale man: White is from Georgetown;
Stephens of the Browns is from sma1
Texas college, and Harry Howell is sup
posed to have been collegian long ago.
Harry Gessler of the Washingtons is a
graduate doctor, and a few more of the
Senators may be concealing their college
attachments even as they do their base
ball abilities.
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johnson Down to Work.

johnson seems to be getting down to
real work at his training camp at Seal
Rock, near San Francisco. They say that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEN


Jeffries is a Mars man, with a strong
love of home. He travels with his wife,
and is deeply attached to her. His habits
are good. The combination of Mars, the
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JEFFRIES DOES NOT ALLOW
FIGHT TALK IN HIS CAMP
Former Champion Despises Any Reference
to Pugilisna- Talkative on Any Other
Subject How He and Berger Used
Kipling as Rival to Gambling Joint.

CAMP ROWARDENNAN, BEN LO-
MOND. Cal, May 21.-If you are anxious
to talk or to listen to talk about the COM
ing puSlistic controversy which is expect
ed to settle the fistic supremacy as be-
tween the Caucasian and the African
races, this is no place for you. Anoma-
lous as 1t may appear to the gentle read
er. it is a fact that one may hear more
fight talk in almost any American rem
devious Of a Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation than passes current right here in
the innermost sanctuary of the James j.
Jeffries training camp.
The Washington herald., 1910-09-03

Brown points out. 1.-THE increase in value
is the result OF increased acreage and a
startling Increase in the price per bushel,
whereas an increase in the product per
acre is what is needed TO keep the country
prosperous.
Il must be admitted that the railroads
are doing their share in trying to bring
this increased product per acre. Mr..
Browns railway lines carry trains which
offer the farmers along the route demon
strations OF scientific farming in the hope
that the agriculturist may make two bush
els OF wheat grow where only one grew
before The Department Of Agriculture
is also doing its share, and is willing 70
do more by means Of agricultural schools
and other methods. Up to the present,
our farmers have been content with the
good living they could make out Of a
large acreage Of land. What Is wanted Is
TO make more than living on much less
land. It means, Of course. scientific agri-
culture, educated farmers, and the keep
ing OF brains in the country, rather than
sending them to the cities. There is much
truth and sound philosophy In what Mr..
Brown says. Scientific farming and in
creased production viii not cure all the
ills that all US. but will 80 long way
toward IT,
The Washington herald., 1910-09-03
The Needed Remedy

What j. J. HiH is trying to do for the
Northwest. Mr.. William c. Brown presi-
dent of the New York Central is trying
10 do for the East-make land more pro-
ductive. He points out that far and wide
the cause Of the high cost Of living has
been sought and not found, but as a
remedy for the conditions that exist Mr..
Brown believes that scientific farming IS
the one that will relieve many OF our ills.
Get more out OF the Hand" is 10 be
the cry. Mr.. Brown believes that with
the manifest advantages we possess in
the matter OF soil. climate, and conditions.
we are failing to live up to our agricul-
tural opportunities. We are raising. ac-
cording to Mr.. Brown, fourteen bushels Of
wheat 10 the acre, while England pro-
duces thirty-two. Germany twenty
eight. the Netherlands thirty-four and
France twenty. Our average yield OF
oats is less than half that Of England
We raise eighty-five bushels Of potatoes
to the acre. while European countries pro-
duce $50 bushels. Germany. with an acre
age less than that OF Texas. produces
2,oOOoOO,ooO bushels Of potatoes a year;
we. with all our acreage. produce only
27s.OOO,OOO
AS a people, we are gratihed when our
statistics show a marked increase each
year in the bulk Of crops and in the in
creased value Of farm lands. but, as Mr..