El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-15

AN FRANCISCO. Calf March IS.
1t must be that manager Tom
~ Jones, Of the Ad Wolgast camp
has heard Of Jack Curley's scheme for
corraIing all the champions of the
different classes and forming pugl-
Istic Wild west show.
Not content with having to Keep
wildcat WOlgast in Straightforward
AID, they say, is harder TO handle AT
times than a bucking bronchO or a
CaYorung cayuse-JoneS Is reaching out
in all directions for tOpnOtch talent.
He has placed his brand on Jack
Lester, OF Gle Elum, a Tommy Burns
cast off, and Willie Hoppe, Of San
Francisco. He has secured options on
big Jim Jeffries and Bob McAlister,
the Olympic club ex amateur and the
round up has barely begun.
World Benters of all Sizes.
He plans to have an aggregation Cf
world heaters of assorted sizes and by
the time he fills IN all the gaps be-
tween Ad WOlgast and Jeffries his
string will be as long as a suffraget
parade.
Jones has become a notably serious
man of affairs. He has discarded that
fippant tOupee he spOrted a couple of
years ago and when he removes his hat
IN your presence he Is naked from the
rims of his ears upward. As he sat in
the writer's den prattling Of the pos
SAD4AALAeS OF the future IN the manager
ial line the electric lights produced
strange St Elmo effects on the apex
OF Toms polished dome. But he didn't
mind. He was too full of his subject.
The point Jones is most buzzed about
at present IS his recent announcement
that he is to pilot old Jeffries on .
second tour OF the championship belt.
Jeffrtes Wants AnOtherNTriaI.
Here's the thing in a nutshell" said
Jones The suggestion came from
IL i -
broOding over what happened at Reno,
and he still harbors the suspicion that
ne was drugged by somebody. He went
on the water wagon several weeks ago
ana stands to lose heavily in Wagers II
ne tastes booze inside of a year. He
mas been training on the quiet and he
Is full of the notion that the present
cay heavyweights are a lot Of no goods.
lie told me in the presence of his
brother Jack that he believed he could
lick the best man in sight at present
and that he had a good mind to hop
back into the game. I said to him
why don't you do it then and Jack
Clipped in with the remark that his big
brother was foolish not to take an
other whack at fighting. We talked
me matter over from every angle and
jim told me to 90 ahead and make
Whatever announcement l saw fit, the
understanding being that I was to act
as MS manager II any matches were
arranged He said he felt so good that
ne believed he could be ready to box
IN two months time il necessary. but
Of course there will be no such hurry
as that. He will keep right along with
his preparation and if he continues to
improve as he has done in the short
time he has been training we will
nave something of a business like ma
ture to give out about four months
from now"
Ambitions Excite RidIeuIe.
So far Jeffries' newly aroused ambi-
tons have excited nothing but ridi-
Guile. The belief exists in some quar-
ters that he is eager to patch himself
up sufficiently to get in on zone big
clean up in what purpOrts to be an
interview given by him in Los Angeles
he is made to say that IL Sufficient
inducements" are offered he may be
seen in the ring again on July fourth. I
Putting the matter in this way has
given those who have been sore at JET |
fries ever since the Reno disaster a /
chance TO flourish their hammers. They (