Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-25
ANOTHER eToh oF THE
 JEFF JOHNSON FIGHT.
How ouaIssr City Moneloaist Tells
 fhe Tale.

One more story of the Jeff Johnson alleged fake has appeared. The Phila- delphia Times has found man who was stung, and he proved a willing monologist The Times prints the fol- lowing:
 Piece by piece, the Jeffries Johnson hasco is being unraveled, and now that the public has been gulled so long the truth about the affair is coming out It shows that band of unprinci- bets and got away with the money These men were chaps close to James J. Jeffries.
 In the city, at the present time, is one of the squarest, strongest men connected with the fight game. He was inferior to the man to the extent of $4,400, and he was stung with the rest of his misguided countrymen.
 This chap is no squealer: he's no piker; but he has learned the entire inside of the game, and comments sons his name is not mentioned but here is the manner in which he de- scribes the whole rotten mess.
 Some day., said he, Jim Jeffries is going to loosen and tell this whole dirty business. That fight was fake. Johnson was to lay down in the 11th round and he had every idea in the world to do so until Tom Flanagan got him in hand
 Remember that the dinge sold his share of the pictures. Well, Flanagan said to him after that sale: Johnson, this fight You will never get another chance to fight: you will be a dead one forever, and all the money which you will ever get is what you are given right here in Reno
 Johnson saw the sanity of that ad- xyi1 Ia 11ro fry Inf oc, oov1 r, and told the big fellow that he was going to fight to win. Jeff was all broke up and his friends were in a panic, apparently. No wonder Jeffries was sick the next morning; he had cause to be i'll.
 Where Gov. GiIIett Comes In.
 Now here's where Gov. Gillett comes in. He kne wthat fight was to be a fake and his authority for that state ment Was George Little, former mana ger of Johnson. Everybody who was at Reno knows why Johnson split with Little. It was over a woman. Little had loaned Johnson $2S,000 before that fight.
 He found Johnson and the woman in compromising position, and he broke d. guitar over her head. He left the camp and was through Little went to Gov. Gillett the very next day and told him the whofe story.
 'I'1l tell you how sure Little was that Johnson would lay down, even while he was giving Jeffries a fearful lacing. George stood up at the ring side in the ninth round and bet $11.000 that Jeffries would win That's how sure he was that Johnson would carry out his agreement and fall down dead.
 Now let me tell you about the cleanup. Six fellows shared in that, and got away with $166,000. Men like Big sTim Sullivan, Billy Vernon, Andy Craig of Chicago, went into their jeans and dug up thousands. ou know that Tom Corbett was the betting commits sioner.
 Walk into his place and ask him if there was any nigger money around, he'd say No. but Have your money here and I may be able to place it for you Go back shortly and you would find your tickets written.
 What corbett Knew.
 Now Corbett knew that Johnson was going to win and that Jefffies could not win. Did he come around and declare he would take no more Jeffries money? Not on your life. The morning of the fight at Reno there was line a quarter of a mile long of fel- lows waiting to lay down their coin on Jeffries.
 "These buzzards took every nickel of it, too. Andy Craig will give you $1,000 if you can produce one fellow outside of Johnson's camp who won $l,00O on the smoke. Where did the eAin go? Why, six highwaymen split the coin. : "Jeffries has been down to his saloon in Los Angeles but twice since that fight Jeffries is a thick-neck, and all that, but this thing is on his nerve. He finds this thing proving on his mind, and some day he'll spill everything.
 'If he had the manhood that he al- ways owned previously, why did he not call Tex Rickard over to the ring side that day and tell him he was sick and unable to do his best? Then why did he not request Rickard to call his bets off and protect his friends?
 Why, because he was in the job, and he profited along with the rest of those highbinders. That's the real truth of that affair at Reno"