The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
HIGH PRICES FOR PRIZE RING SEATS All Records Will Be Broken By
 Big Fight SOME BARGAIN SEATS Jack Johnson Is Trying to Get Bet That Jefries Will Not Fight nt
 All While Jenries Is Just
 Saving Wood
By C. B. VAN LOAN

New York, April Special. Tex and Jack have at last been touched by the universal howl against the in creased cost of living and the an- nodnce ment is now made that the price tags on the seats at the big fight have been cut squarely in two, making the bargain counter seats five bucks per each and the ringside divans SC homes throw. We'll that's pretty near q worlds record as it stands. There lave been a few private mills where men paid S100 for chance to stand up in the loft of a barn but never anything on a large scale with general adms sion to the. public.
 In order that people may not lie awake at night feeling sorry for Tex end Jack worrying about their ahil- ity to meet the big cost of the fight under the downward revision of the tariff the announcement is also made that there will be seats for S0,000 at an average of S22 per seat. Get out your pencil and look it over and you will see that if the fight plays to capacity there will be $660,000 In the house. "If," I said, mind that.
 And if that arena is going to seat 300o0 somebody will do a red hot business renting out field glasses at 1be gate. You cannot herd 90.000 peo pie into a small space and it would seem that the far-away bleachers boys who come in on the fve-dollar boards will have to have good eyesight or bring telescopes with them.
 Bet From Johnson
 Once again We have low sad wall from Mistah Johnsing. He desires to bet 5000 that Jeffries will never fight.
 Now, to d man up a tree, it would seem that Johnson should have saved that money to buy bread and save that breath to cool coffee. Jeff is quietly going about his business getting ready for this fight. He has been working pearly every day for six months, slow ly getting into fighting trim. This docs not look very much as if he mad auy idea of forfeiting the money al ready up to guarantee his appearance.
 Johnson is the man who may not he there on the Fourth-and not be- cause he doesn't want to fight at that.  something hard, or he may go to jail on one of the many charges brought ag1inst him.
 Did you ever see an elephant cross Ing 8 stream or taking a chance on bridge? An elephant moves one foot St a time and he never plants 1is weight until he knows that the going Is good. That Is the way Jeff advanced toward this battle with the negro. It was months before he would make a deinite announcement of his intention and he did not make 1t until he said he was positive that he could get back Into trim for a hard battle. It Is a tiIne late to begin to worry about Jim carrying out his part of the agree ment. The time to do that was mont1s or posted a forfeit.
 Jeff Will Re There
 Let the black champion prepare himself for g real fight-the first he has had in some time, for it is 1 to 1000 that the white man will be there with his few re- maining curls in a braid. Whatever may be the matter with Jeff he is not and never was a fourhusher, and if he says he will do anything and posts a small fortune to bind the agreement you can go away and bet that he will deliver. Underneath all the wild talk credited to Johnson, the black man has a wholesome respect for Jeffries. When Johnson ar rived in New York from Australia had | little talk with him.
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