The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-03

dH HIS T tlAAH tA-. 7.tHAtsIl' ''.tftfH' out with the positive auuouuCemcu. rha. the bu1t Was framed fer Jeff ries to vii. and that Johnson doT5!e- crossed the big white man. Rum1rs of this kind have been current ever since encounter The Phlladel- phia mans statement is printed herewith and can be accepted for wha, i' is werh
 Some day Jcar.o~ is going to loosen up and 'eU thc wh le business. That fight Vas fake. Johnson was ;o lie down la thc 11'h round and h. had every idea iu The world 70 do so until T.m fiauu.ean got him in hand.
 The 'diucc' sold his share ,f he pictures and Flauni@au said 70 him after the sale. Johnson. You are a big focl if you don't win this fight. You will never get another chance to fight: you will he a dead one for ever and all 'ht mou,s which y1u will ever get is what yau will re ceiye righ, here in Rem.
 Johnson saw inc sanity of that advice He went over 10 JcfIries' camp and told the big fellow that he was going 'a fglt 10 win. Jeff was all trok Il up and his friends were in panic.
 Now heres where Governor Gill. cite comes in He knew the fight was 10 be fake and his auth ri'y for that statement was G orGe Lit tie. former manager ot Johnson. Many who were at Reno knew why Johnson splir with Little. r was over a woman Little had loaned Johnson $2>.ooo before he fight.
 He found ! hn-eu and the woman in a compromising position and he broke q gIi'ar over her head. He left the camp and was through. Lit tie went 10 Governor Gillette the HcXr day and told him the whole story.
 I'll tell ylu how snrc Little was that Johnson would lay down. even while he was giving Joarie- a fear ful lacing George stood up a. tho ringside in the ninth round and be' s11.U0n that JeIries N Uld win.
 Now let me tell you ah0ut inc cleanup Six fellows shared tu Int and got away with $116.ooo. Men like Big Tim Sullivan, Billy Vernon and Andy Craig. If Chicago. went into their jeans and dug mp thousands
 Tom rh,tt Was the betting commissioner You could walk into his place and ask him if there was any 'niggcr money around, He'd say no. but leave your money here and I may be able ID place it for you
 If you would return sh.rrly you would find your ticker written. Now Corbett knew rha, Johus.u was go ing to win, and tat Jr0ri could not win Did he come around and declare he would take no nor, Jeffries oney? N.t on yaur life
 "Jeffries has been down 10 his sa loon in Los AnecI.s twice since tha' fight. Jcftries is thick ucnk am all that but this thing is on hi. nerves. He finds ii preyine on his mind and some day hell spill every thing"
 NEW YORK, Feb 25.-Al,houeI the majority of managers when thel are asked to pick the pcuuaut win her. smile and say. "Come around next October" there are many busy little pr phers on the job. The weight of the majority opinion seems 10 be thrown on the side of three teams as against the other five. Most people seem to believo that the National league pennan' will fly in either New York, Chicago or Cincinnati.
 They say that New York has 2 hard-hitting team. and that this S a son the p-,ching staff will be better balanced. The adherents Of the Cub, believe that the team as a whole i, as good as ey,r and that the ye'erar twirlers will have a good year, h Red town they claim that Gritfitl has strengthened his team so that il will canter across the finish line an easy winner
 Twenty-one bas ball writers from the circuit cities in a consensus Ct opinion pick the National League teams to finish in the following or der: New York first; Chicago sec ond; Cincinnati third; Pittsbura fourth; Philadelphia fifth; Brooklyn sixth; St, Louis seventh and Boston eighth.
 Willie Keeler's name will never drop out of baseball Fred Penney in his talk about right felders the other day, had the following to say about him:
 "Keeler's name immediately brings to ones mind the diminutivC size of this baseball 'giant'-f0l years, probably, the best known and best liked of all ball players
 Popular everywhere, praised ev erywhere, lauded by the newspapers and fellow players, yet he remained the S" le quiet gentlemanlV. unaS- suming chap. A wonderful fielder very fast runner, sure catch and strCng throWer, coupled with an eX traordinary ability with the bat made l.-m the type of the ideal field CT.
 Apparently, keeler could hit and place . ball in any par of the field he desired. Woe to the infelder who started to cover the bag when Wee Willie was batting, as he in variably would place the ball just where the fielder had been.
 This faculty made keeler a won derful workman in the run-and-hit play. Many a game did he and Me Graw win by the use Of this play Keeler was still one more instance of a great player trying to shine in the wrong position, as he started playing at third base. Keeler's hit ting was so strong that both New York and Brooklyn secured him only to pass him up when it was dis covered that he was left-handed Wise Hanlon took him, immediately placed him where he belonged, and developed him into a star of the first