The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-20

Let me tell you some inside
stuff.
Last March ] was in Chicago
and heard some of this fake
fight" talk.
/ was told by men in the mo-
ton picture business that Jeffries
was to win the fight. whether he
could do SO on his merits or not.
The men from whom / received
this information backed 1t with
the assertion that Jack Gleason,
promoter of the fight with Tex
Richard, and Sam Berger. man.
ager of Jeffries. we're in the city
that day and had been in confer
ence with the various motion pic
ture companies.
1--WE have been asked to bid on
this fight and have verbal assur-
ance that Jeffries will win, and
that the fight will go at least IL
rounds" 1 was told. Later on, in
San Francisco, received this
statement, in black and white,
from the man who first told the
story to me.
Both verbally and later in
writing, was assured Jeffries
was not party to the scheme.
Apparently the men trying to put
over the fake realized 1t would be
folly to attempt to mix JEFF
fries in fake fight, with his
knowledge.
Later on, talk of a fake was
heard. and johnson denied it posi-
lively. He proceeded to shaw
that it could not be made worth
his while to lose---and he talked
convincingly.
AT Reno, on Sunday, July 3
Frank McAvoy, San Francisco
ATTORNEY, representing Geo. Little,
told me positively that Johnson
would lay down to Jeffries in the
seventh rOund.- So sure was he
that he offered to give me for the
United Press Association, a signed
statement to be placed In a safe
until after the fight, i'm which he
would call the turn.
was introduced to McAvoy by
Little, who the next day, sitting
at the ringside, wagered $4,000
that Jeffries would win. Little be-
llieved Johnson intended to fake
the fight.
i Another thing that makes the
story reasonable is the fact that
lust before the men entered the
ring at Reno, Johnson sent to JET.
fries and demanded "a 60 and 4t
cut of the purse. instead of the "a
land 20 originally agreed upon.
| Now If Johnson had intended te
lay down, as has been charged
and double crossed his seducers
when he saw how easy Jeffries
was, or whether he, as he de-
clares, spurned the offer to lay
down, is something / don't pro
lfess to know.
i do know that a number OF
men supposed to be ''wise" ant
''in the know" took the Jeffrie,
end. Among the number was Geo
Considine of New York, who be
So, 600 with Tom Corbett the nigh
before the fight, at the prevailin,
odds, which helps to strengthen
the bribery story.
i / know that Geo. Little, whe,
managing Johnson. bet consider
: able money that his man woul,
: win. He bet much at even none.
TO show, as he said, his faith ii
1.-THE champion. That he hedged a
1.-THE ringside and bet his money oil
Jeffries, is proof conclusive to me
THAT he expected Jeffries to win
not on the level. but becaus
johnson would take punch OF
1.-THE Jaw and lay down.
: Little told me this much with
out hesitation and advised me Il
follow his lead. He advised man
another to do the same. and som
who were hesitating got ON harl
land quick.
Now apropos OF the fakes tina
Little charges Johnson with per
ylpetrating:
Remember that scrap the cham
: lpion had with AL Kaufman? An
jhow Kaufman managed to las
I 10 rounds. although badly beate
slup?
q ] didn't see that scrap but di
see Jack Johnson and Kaufma
box day after day, at the Sea
Rock pavilion in San Francisc
and later at Kicks place in Reno
, and I know that johnson can bea
Kaufman in 10 rounds any tim
he wants to. OF course II ha
Ibeen said johnson was hog ia
when he and Kaufman fought. bu
even allowing for this. 1t Is prett'
certain that had he desired b
could have stopped Kaufman.
A. to fIlc charge that the John
|son-Kefebell fight was framed ii