The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08
Must Have Twenty-Thousand-
Dollar Guarantee to Fight
Battling Nelson.
FREDDY WELSH FAVORED
FOR MATCH WITH CHAMPION
Jeffries-Johuson Training Sys-
tenn Entirely Revolutionized
From Old Beefsteak Table.
BY JEFF THOMPSON.

NEW YORK, May There is more
than passing possibility that Colonel
/ Theodore Roosevelt will be present at
the Jeffrics Johnson fight, July 4, unless
the California governor gives ear to the
national Methodist wall and attempts
10 block the bout. The colonel hkes
fight. He likes to participate, and
he likes to look on. Ho likes boxing
matches and when he was police com
missioner of this city he used to attend
the fights ''to see that things went
right He is boxer of ability him
self, and his old instructor, Mike Dono-
van, says he has the hardest punch OF
any man not in the ring.
Roosevelt will be in the west next
summer. He has accepted invitations
to fairs in Cheyenne and Galveston,
Just when he is going west is not
settled at this moment, but he Will
likely go early and stay late, for he
admires western people and western
scenery.
Jack Gleason is coming east TO pre-
sent ticket to Colonel Roosevelt when
the hunter gets back from Europe. Mr.,
Gleason will tender ticket for the
finest seat IN the arena, aud If Colonel
Roosevelt will consent TO attend he can
have q whole section to himself.
The strenuous one no doubt would
like nothing better, but that trivial
thing of public opinion must cut some
figure. However, the ticket hasn t been
refused yet.
Jack johnson s training programme
provides for a daily rising time OF 6
g. N. Then he dons the spiked shoes
for a run. AT 1880 that imported chef
- AaI> IL In, h.. H1.of
meal Of the day. Jack scans the bill
anxiously and inquiries;
"W har am de frog legs L ordered
last night"
"Ah, monsieur, / have re frog
limbs" replies tho chef.
Then Jack settles down to consomme,
troubles, Sierra quail, red-headed duck
and winds UP on Neopolitan ice cream.
By that time he is ready for spin
around San Francisco in his automobile.
Next is visit to the gymnasium. Here
IS bag punching, medicine ball and
shadow boxing. Next comes rest,
then another meal. This is followed
by a sesta, after which the champion
cuts into the rough work, slamming his
trainers. Next supper; then orchestral
entertainment interspersed with auto.
ing, and into the hay at 10 o'clock.
JEFF Tells Stories.
Jeffries likes to tell stories. In train
ing he likes TO laze around in the even
ing before bedtime listening and chip
ping In with contribution occasional
ly. Here is one he tells On Tom
Sharkey:
"While Tom was getting ready to
open his saloon in New York he took
trip to Europe and, while in Paris,
he visited the Louvre. Tom couldn It
get his mind off his saloon plans, and
he thought that, if he saw anything
statuary with which he could grace
his bar, he would buy it. When Tom
saw the ancient bust of the Venus de
Milo, he thought he had found Just
the thing. True, the bust was broken,
but Tom decided that he would swing
couple OF curtains over the broken
arms and hide the other broken places
with some kind Of drapery. Tom walked
up TO an attendant, and said'
Say, pard, how much fer the dame
over there with her fippers busted''
1t took the attendant some time
to comprehend. and when he realized
that Tom was trying to buy the statue
he was horror-stricken. He told Tom
that it was so rare that no man was
rich enough to purchase it,
'Geel' muttered Tom, as he turned
away, Il could get better statue than
that in the Bowery for a dollar and
half any day ,"
How about too many cooks spelling
the broth7 Among the trainers and
sparring partners at the Jeffries train
ing camp are Sam Langford, Joe Choyn~
ski, Farmer Burns, Sam Berger and
Billy Papke. Armstrong is another,
Jeffries is In as good condition as he
could be expected TO be in.
The. men are both undergoing the
nervous strain of daily advice. unusual
ly hard work and the gruelling of
new system Of life. Some day train
ing will be made more natural than
it is now.
About Same Size.
When Jeffries and johnson stand
side by side the black seems to loom
over the white man. But the figures
show different tale. jeff is supposed
to be a quarter of an inch taller than
Johnson. johnson s shoulders are near
ly two inches broarder, but Jeffries
has the biggest chest, both in normal
attitude and under expansion. JEFF
has 38 waist and johnson 81,
johnson has the bigger arms and legs,
but all In all they seem TO be pretty
evenly matched in size.
The English fighters have begun to
drift over. We have Digger Stanley,
the bantam. and .Jem Driscoll. the
featherweight, both of whom are likely
lads and spelling for fights. Since
DriscolI knocked Spike Robinson out
IN London with terrific punch his
stock has risen steadily. Jem has as
plratIons upon the world e featber