Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-17
JACK SAYS HE'S ALL RIGHT
colored Fighter Relieves Troubled
Minds of Few DOubters.
ELEVEN WEEKS YET TO FOURTH
Siege of Training SO Far
was seven weeks for KetcheI
Doesn't want to he
stale.

| to The Bee. Jack johnson has issued
orders to his trainers that there will be a
tremendous drouth when they strike Call
fornia to establish a training camp or
May l. Nothing stronger thu soda water
will be permitted any of the johnson en-.
tourage, and Jack does not even want
to smell anybodys breath that is tainted
with the fumes of booze. However, these
orders do not go into effect in Chicago
or en- route, btu are for the California
camp.
Dispatches from San Franciso state that
followers OF the boxing game out that way
are astonlshed that Jack johnson is not
on the ground working his head off for
his fight with Jeffries. They scent some-
thing wrong in the supposed idleness OF the
solored man.
This was put up to Johnson today and
he laughed at the statements contained In
the story. His attention was called, too,
to the nervousness that Jack Gleason has
displayed all along--a nervousness that is
unusual Jack Gleason no longer wonders
what is on the black mans mind Jack told
him and he is satisfied.
Eleven Weeks Until Fourth.
This is the way Johnson outliend the
present condition;
Let's see. the 18th OF April. The Fourth
Of July is over eleven weeks off 1 am IN
very fair condition right now. Why, them
should get out to the coast and tear my
self all to pieces and probably go stale
before the date Of the fight7
Should l do this just to satisfy a lot
Of fight fans, as you eaIl them. who don't
know about conditioning man? / guess
not.
Il never trained over two months for
a fight in my life. The finest condition
into which 1 lever brought mystlf / had
in Australia for my fight with Burns
Il trained exactly five weeks for that
battle.
Let me take you back over what did
from the time of that fight up to the pres
ent. I've had five fights since then, a
matter OF sixteen months which is, how
ever a much shorter period, considering
that it took me a month to return.
That's enough fighting for champion
to do
First, 1 took on Victor McLaglan. the
jiu iitsu campion, in Vancouver I worked
about five days for that engagement The
following May took on Jack O'Brien In
Philadelphia. For that contest took three
weeks to prepare, being high in flesh when
started.
Following o'Brien took on Tony Ross.
training lightly for three weeks for him
That was on June 80. and from then until
September 9 did but little. -Four weeks
before the Kaufman fight started to do
earnest work and was in fair shape when
met him.
MY longest siege OF work was Tor
Ketehel, little over seven weeks in all.
when / started out on that campaign /
weighed 22S pounds. the highest ever got.
When / boxed Ross l weighed 222, for
Kaufman n2 and for Ketchel Iss pounds.
So you see / got down to my right fighting
notch with a great deal Of care being
especially anxious to win this fight because
Of the side bet OF s5,OOO
And right now l want to tell you that
when step into the ring with Mr.. Jeffries
! win weigh between l9S and 200 pounds.
That is official"
Johnson simply says that he doesn't need
the training work at this time and isn't
going to be- forced into taking something
that he figures win be detrimental TO his
chances Of winning the big scrap.
From the talk CLEANED about the south
side training camp, both Joe Rogers. the
giant New York wrestler, ana Tommy
-NaNt'i NNtNA al AuiNuANWNASnl kABNhtlt. Will
be members Of the party that leaves here
next week for the Pacific coast
Jim Wants Real Man.
JEFFRIES TRAINING CAMP, ROW
ARDEMAN, Cal, April l6-(special Tele-
gram 70 The Bee.)-The Jeffries camp Is
dul place today for Jeff is going to re-
main idle. Worried over his wife and his
neck sim Bit affected by the cramps OF
Yesterday, Jim said he would take a day
Off. Jeff says he likes to trai nand box.
but feels the handicap that is put on him
ny his trainers. Jim Is forced to hold back
the fun power behind his punch. In other
words, he is not permitted 10 hit his hard
est when boxing, and this robs him Of
much Of his pleasure. He would like 10
get somebody that he can cut loose on.
The Alfalfa Kid cid some boxing yes
terday and he surprised the spectators con-
siderably when In the second round OF his
bout with Armstrong he suddenly ceased 10
spar after Armstrong had landed a rather
stiff punch on his chin. For a moment Il
appeared that the eolored heavsrwelrht had
dazed the champion. but il developed a few
seconds later that a muscular cramp IA the
back OF the neck had caught the biz boxer
80 suddenly he could not continue until
the masseurs had rubbed the affliction
away The sparring was resumed. but Jeff
did not thoroughly rid himself Of the cramp
until well into the third round