The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-23
MR. JOHNSIAG
YET AT FRISCO
Continued from Page Five.
(By Max BaltbaserO


Hotel, Moana Springs, Reno, New,
June 23.--With Jim Jeffries resum-
Ing training here today. with Jack
johnson due to arrive in Reno tomor-
row morning, with work on the fight
arena progressing rapidly, and with
Governor Dickerson's absolute prom
ise that he will make no effort to pre-
vent the Jeffries-J Johnson fight on In
dependence day, Tex Rickard and
Jack Gleason are breathing more easi-
ly today and making efforts to round
up enough persons to make a little
piece of pocket money out of the bat
tie.
There seems little doubt that this
laudable effort on the part of Rickard
and Gleason will succeed. The en-
tire state of Nevada and It's brother,
with few thousand from California
and the East, Will be gathered around
the arena when Jeffries and johnson
climb through the ropes at 80 Mon
day, July 4, and the moving picture
man starts grinding his machine.
And 1t will he two perfectly con-
ditioned men who will meet in that
ring.
1T was on this very spot that
gave away my title exactly five years
ago." said Jeffries, "and now I have
come to get it back. You know
retired from the ring on July 3, 1905,
when l refereed the battle between
Marvin Hart and Jack Root. Hart
won In the twelfth round and / gave
him the championship of the world.
Now it has fallen into Jack John
sons hands and five years after l
gave 1t away ] have come back here
to fight to get 1t back. I'll do It, too"
Jeffries says he Is "tickled to
death" with his new training quar-
ters and he is already making him
self accustomed to the higher atmos-
phere. He will sleep I'm a tent at
the side of his cottage by the hotel
and will take up road work again.
though not to the extent he followed
IL in Rowardennan-jus enough to
get his lungs and heart used to the
change
81 have always been able to stand
the higher atmosphere" he said, "and
this air will not have any effect upon
me. Just before / went into training
at Rowardennan, I was up In the
mountains at a 6,000-foot altitude and
the rarer air there did not hurt me.
Here in Reno the sun is hot and there
is plenty of good fishing, so / am
happy. / am glad to know the un-
certainty has ended and that nothing
can interfere with the fight"
Jeffries will do his training in an
open air theater connected with the
hotel, the stage being converted into
gymnasium. A ring, too, will be
placed on the stage.
Jim Corbett created some diversion
last night by beating up a drunken
man who insuted Jeffrics. Jim was
sitting on the porch of the hotel when
the man reeled up and insisted on
shaking hands. Jeffries refused ana
the man cursed him. Jeffries did not
vtrike him, but Jim Corbett backed
him off the porch and whipped him
well.
There is a rumor that Governor
Dickerson intends to see the fight as
the guest of Rickard, but this has
not been confirmed
Sid Hester Is causing lot of trou-
bic about Reno. He has given an or
der for the erection of another fight
arena in which he says he intends to
pull off the Sam Langford Stanley
Ketchel fight on the morning of July
4. This order followed Richards re-
fusal to allow him to use the Jeffries.
Johnson arena for the morning bat
tie. From San Francisco comes a
rumor that Langford will not fight,
but Hester is going ahead with the
arena. Rickard declares II Is another
blow from the San Francisco fight pol
iticians. He is averse to the morning
fight because he says a man who
would buy a $40 seat to the Jeffries-
Johnson fight will split his $40 and
see both fights
The Reno people. too, oppose the
morning fight because they want the
fight fans to get a chance to circulate
through the gambling houses during
the morning and spend some money.
Hester offered to pay $4,000 towards
the erection of the Jeffries-J Johnson
arena to pay the $1,000 state license
and 10 give Rickard share of his
gate receipts, but Rickard refused the
offer.