The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17
h Not Begin Training 10 Sat
I iSfy Whims Of the
I Fight Fans.
N WORKED FIVE WEEKS
FOR TOMMY BURNS BOUT
] in Best Condition of His
shting Career; VIII DupIi-
cate for jeff.

leased Wire 10 The Tribune,
hh.a1CAGO. April 16.-Jack johnson
ISSUED orders 10 his trainers that
sen,e will be a tremndous drought
nsh they strike California TO estab-
I IA training camp, May /. Nothing
y. lger than soda water VIII be per
"s ed any Of the Johnson encourage,
Jack does not even want 10 smell
hbody's breath that is tainted with
s Z fumes of booze. However. these
,lypsrs dc not 60 into effect in Chi
perb or enroute. but are for the Cali
he liza camp.
from San Francisco state
t / followers OF the boxing game out
lat way are astonished that Jack John
us is not on the ground working his
se,d of for mis- fight with Jeffues. They
mt something wrong in the supposed
H. mess of the colored man.
This was put up 10 Johnson today.
al be laughed at the statements CON
ned in the story. His attention was
lr He'd, too, 70 the nervousness that Jack
lhason has displayed all along. and
'B gave HIM more merrlment. 1T APP
m, however, that he has quieted
a promoter s fears, because Jack
htason no longer wonders what is on
8 black man s mind. Jack told him,
"a he is satisfied.
This is the way Johnson outlined the
Z ksent condition:
15'Let's see. This is April Is. The
nbrth of July is over eleven weeks
" am in very far condition right
aaE. Why then, should I 20 out 10 the
LIST and tear myself all TO pieces and
Ijbably 90 stale before the date of
es fght7
m,fshouId I DO this Just to satisfy a
L of fight fans. as you call them,
,o-bf ] guess not
I'll never trained over two months
ID la fight in my life.
THE finest condition into which |
ruF brought myself I obtained in
aaanaatralia for my fight with Burns.
1ISS'I trained exactly five weeks fol-
y battle.
81 Summing Up Fights.
my Let me take YOU back ovGr what
sart3id from the time Of that fight up
tathe present. / we had five fights
1ee that tune, matter of sixteen
hths. which is, however, q much
Fter period, considering that it took
Ia month to return.
N That's enough fighting for cham
Vn TO do,
yrFirst. [ took on Victor McLag
= the Jul jltsu Champion, in Van
uver. I worked about FIVE days fol
nt engagement The following May
took on Jack O'Brieu IN Philadel
ia. For that contest ! took three
eeks TO prepare, being high in flesE
hen ] started,
Followiug O'Brien took on Tony
PCS, training lightly for three week:
p him. That was June 30, and from
ZEN until September 9 ] did but little
pur weeks before tho Kaufman fight
IEtarted TO do earnest work, and wa:
4 fair shape when ! met him.
Ny longest siege Of work was fol
,etchel, a little over seven weeks II
Gt' When ] started out on that cam
Thgn l weighed 22S pounds, tho high
'F ever got. When | boxed Ross
weighed 800. for Kaufman 2l2 anC
y ketchel 1913 pounds. So you Sc,
e4got down TO NV right fighting motel
9TH a great deal Of care, being espe
Plly anxious TO win this light becaus'
< the side bet of $4,000,
~ And, right now, [ want to tell you
! lat when ] step into the ring with Mr.
. nirles ! will weigh between l9S anC
.tp pounds, That is official.
l1Johnsop simply says that he does no
. ed the training work at this tim
7 ID IS not going to be forced into TAX
IaE something that he figures will b
ornamental TO his chances Of winnin!
ee big scrap.
From the talk cleaned about th
pth side training camp, both Joe Rog
-, the giant New York wrestler, ant
Emmy Ryan, veteran middleweigh
q inter-, Will be members of the part
ipAt leaves here next week for tn
"a icifc coast