New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Negro Champion Weighs
2lO Pounds and Insists
He Is at His Best.
MORAN ALSO FULL
OF QUIET CONFIDENCE
Tribune Correspondent Visits
Both Boxers in Their Camps
and Sees Them Work.


Paris. June e4.-Jaek johnson. who
viii face Frank Moran. of Pittsburgh.
for the heavyweight championship Of
the world on Saturday. appeared IN eN-
cellent condition when seen to-day by
= Tribune correspondent in his little
suburban villa at ASnieres.
lie stood on the scales and tipped
the beam stripped at 2l0 pounds, Jrst
ten pounds more than he weighed
when he defeated Jim Jefries for The
title al Reno, New. on July 4, 1910.
johnson says he has trained hari
and faithfully and added;
You can say for me that | have
never been in better fighting trim in
MY life. and am absolutely sure Of MY
staying power and soundness of wind.
OF course III win"
Johnson has trained of full thirty
pounds in the last six weeks. He has
been doing q great deal Of long dis
lance running at moderate pace, end
besides his regular afternoon sparriug
with lively boxers at Luna Park TO n
sure fast work he has been taking
severe course of shadow boxing.
His diet is made up largely OF NUT
ton chops. rice and cherries, while he
drinks only water, with occasionally a
hottie OF peer. ne edlu NlAto dANNAtiNNiA
that while his hard training was over
ne would do light work up 70 Friday
evening.
Betting on the result has been light.
hut the odds range from 3 10 l to 4 TO
that Johnson will win, as the Moran
money is scarce.
Managers Of the fight have decided
20 issue no passes, not even to the
newspaper men. Seats have been pro-
vided for 10000 persons as against
10000 at Reno, and the prices anywhere
near the ring range from $40 to $50.
The street hawkers here are dong
lively business in selling for five
cents each cardboard figures in black
and white Of Johnson and Moran
worked By elastic springs and cords.
giving a realistic moving picture OF
tight.
After seeing Jack Johnson, the Trib-
rne correspondent visited the training
camp Of Frank Moran. In stepping
from the ricketty little fishing skin
that serves as a ferry to convey visitors
across the river from Meriel, opposite
Moran's camping graund at Auyers.
Sur-Oise, some forty miles north OF
Paris, he was greeted by the white
hope with the words:
81 am going TO win this ngnt on sat
,irdav. OF that ! am certain
He spoke with quiet confidence tnat
carried a lot of conviction.
Moran looks well and should have
no excuses TO make on lack of condl-
ton. He is much younger than ms
rival. and this is sure 10 count IN MS
He ran five miles this morning at
an Indian lope and this afternoon
showed rare speed and much skin IN
boying bouts with Willie Lewis and
Tom Kennedy. who kept hlm moving
about at a lively pace.
Moran. like Johnson, has been dong
lot Of shadow boxing and much work
with the medicine ball.
Moran and his handlers are living AZ
little rustic inn usually occupied Dy
artists and rod fishermen at AuVers'
II is kept by genial Pere Goulon'
Father Gudgeon), who may De ldenu-
ned as Paul, retired head waiter o.
we'll known Partisan restaurant
Moran, with bristling reddish-yeilow
hair. fresh pink complexion ana cISar
blue eyes, stepped about during h!s
work this afternoon with the elastlc
ling of Young panther. His leg
muscles have attained splenola ueNSI
onment He weighed 2O2 pounds,
stripped as he stood on the scales ana
his flesh is as hard as a nail.
He keenly relished his noon meal
consisting Of couple Of Dream, fresh
ly caught from the river. small peer
steak. string beans and weak tea.
Moran is modest and unsss sllI9ans:
hut absolutely confident OF victory
one of his trainers remarked;
This night will be a Wagneri.aain
song Of the black swan. Moran, with
his cat-like agility, will be able 10
avoid the sledge hammer onslaugnts
Of Johnson in the early part of the
fgbt. and thus tire him out and make
an opening for the finishing blows
Moran smiled at this sally but sara
nothing. 1000
Johnson says he has $4,000 to wager
on himself at the prevailing odds, but
can find no takers. ooo
The men will enter the ring at lO;5o
m. Paris time, on Saturday even
ing. which is $3.50 o'clock IN the after
noon, New York time.