The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-06-23
Big SMOKE TO
DEFEND HONORS
JACK JOHNSON WILL MEET FRANK
MORAN OF PITTSBURG AT
PARIS.
Worlds Heavyweight Championship at
Stake in Saturdays Fray-AIl
Eyes on the Mixup.
By William Philip Simms.

paris Correspondent of the United
Press)
PARIS, June 23.-For the first time
since Jack Johnson, the black giant
laid stalwart Jim Jeffries on the pug
ilistic shelf at Reno and, unscratched
took possession of the heavyweight
championship belt, the coveted trophy
will be put into play here Saturday
night, June 27, at the Velodrome
Id'Hiver. Frank Moran of Pittsburg
U. S. A., will be the big dusky's OPP
ponent, and from out on the banks OF
the Disc, at on-the-Beach, where
the White Hope is training comes
word that he is in great shape Sim
| liar reports are filtering out of the
Johnson camp, in Asnieres, just on
the fringe of Paris. Johnson, who per-
haps not entirely without reason, re-
marked that he wouldn't swap jobs
with John D. Rockefeller, and who,
as this reflection may be taken to de-
note, is something of business man,
is training at home and cutting ex-
penses. The great out-of-doors where
he does his road-work is free and at
Luna Park, the scene of his gym ex-
ercise, he, gets real money for letting
the common herd look on.
Paris All Excited.
Between r-PIage-which is
another name for Moran's headquar-
ters-and Asnieres, the one on the
north the other on the south, Paris is
all excited. Never has it seen a real
worlds championship affair, the most
celebrated stunts ever pulled off here
being the Caillaux- Calmette shooting,
the Dreyful affair and the revolution,
the last named being too far back for
the younger bloods to remember. So,
in spite of admission prices which |
are wrenching from the very roots the |
frugal souls of the economical but |
sporty Frenchmen, the latter are de-
.ermined to answer present at the roll
call on Saturday night. Unlikt Christ
mas, they figure, heavyweight cham
)ionship fights don't come once year,
md by close shaving on other ex-
)enses, diminishing the daily ration of
lbsinthe, and holding down on the
lnnual tip to the family concierge,
he necessary 275 francs or $55 demand
d for ring-side seat can be torn from [
he pocket without causing fatal con- Ii
u1sions.
No Benefit For the Poor.
No, kind reader, the report that the
ohnson-Moran fight is to be benefit
to aid the poor has no
in truth. Considerable cred >
!, however, is placed in the rumor
lat the fight promoters have decided !
, make the janitor at the Velodrome
ny general admission before letting
i'm enter to sweep out on the day of
lie fight. 1t is also bruited about that d
hey debated for several days the
lestion of auctioning off the referee
-ivilege, it being held by part of the Il
anagement that the referee could u
e' the fight better than anybody in
e building. There has been some
ficulty in persuading the people of =
aris that this is going to be a real :
fight, every fight pulled :
here to date having been advertis-
along that line. Only two or thre
Onths ago Jack Johnson and Jim
hnson pulled off a draw for the
gorld's championship" and here =
mes another, SO the natives are ask p
g one another if this is zone Amer ~
IN bloof" more. Still, the Velodrome -
tn room for $4,000 people will prob ca
ly be pretty well filed. Many =.
llionaires are already here from all W
rts Of the world, drawn by the fa- "
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