The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-14
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Big Fight Dope and Gives
1t Out Hot From
The Skillet "A Tough Bat
tie Expected But
Jeffries
Posted TO Win in Not More Than 20
Rounds - Requests For Passes
Pouring in by the Patriotic Press.
by United Press Wire.
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fight less than a month off, many
people are still talking fake" That
kind of talk, brcwcd mostly in Tn,
East and among men who do not
know the Marquis of Quecnsbcrry
from the London ring rules, strikes
western fight fans as the height OF
humor.
Jimmy Coffroth who was beaten iu
| his efforts to hold the battle and
who Therefore might have some cause
for complaint, voiced the sentiment OF
all westerners today when lie said:
This fight couldn't bc crooSoi
even If johnson and Jeffres wanted
! 1t to be-which they don't In In the
! first place, you couldn't put all the
money in the world before Jcffrics ana
make him fight q crooked fight Tc
win means nearly S1,OOO,OO for John.
SON. to lose it means hardly quarter
of that DO you think the Jeffrey
mon could put up the necessary
| $750,OoO TO make Johnson lay down?
Not i'm a million years. And even II
| they tried IT, II wound get out. In the
first place. when there is crooked
the hands of one man, there can be
no double crossing. This man would
bc sure to tank anu the secret would
soon be out Take it from me: There
will be no fake fight"
The orders for seats in the fight
arena continues to pour i'm and Glea
son and Rickard have had their placn,
so drawn that within two hours sever
al thousand eXtara seats can be added
To the arena to take care of excess
crowds
Gleason and Hickafd are receiving
thousands of requests for passes
HIunoo oql NJ JodudsNau oplU EI9Au
wants half dozen and there isn't
a. tin horn politician on the coast
who hascn't written in for his share
claiming to be mighty friendly with
the governor or the district attorney,
or speaking of his Influence one
indianapolis man threatened to blow
up the arena with a bomb if he didn't
get pass. lie didn't get pass, but
1t Is stanrge that eight watchmen
have been engaged to watch the are
ma until the day Of the fight
Dick Adams, of the Jcnrrics train
ing STAFF, who watched Johnson box
with Kaufman, declared today he
thought the baltic would be a partl-
cularly tough one, nut that Jeffries
would win inside OF twenty rounds
johnson can put up a stiff fight and
and some good blows" said Adams
"lit Is swift ON his feet and Jeffrics
VIII have some trouble I'm hitting him
but he will finally get to the big negro
and then it will be allo r."
Johnson has let down considerable
IN his work. lie is down to 20 pounds
ana doesn't want To take off any
more weight He sttlI does some light
road work aud boxing but little har
work that would be liable TO make
lose weight.
Jefries intends to. spend the resi-
OF his time doing lot of boxing
Yesterday he put in nine hard rounds
The first three were with Armstronr
ana they mixed il up in splendid
style Then Jeffrics took on Sam Rer
ger and Joe Choynski for six rounds.
The big fellow took no rest between
rounds, simply fighting his two op-
ponents alternately, three minutes for
each man. In word, Jeffries boxed
eighteen minutes without II rest and
showed up i'm fine form.
Today was the day Johnson was TO
stop automobile riding, according To
his promise to Rckard Few believe
the giant will be able to keep out of
the buzz buggy.
JeItrles' action in finally paying that
S1'oOO gambling debt rr Reno, Nevada,
was unexpected. JcTfrries has always
maintained he was cheated i'm the
game, but it Is said he paid rather
than break training to so to Reno TO
fight the suit.