Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-25
TICKETS FOR WORLD MILL F.
COSTS S55 At R|NGSIOE.
Word From Great White Hope Says He
Is in Great Fighting Trim for
Championship Battle.
FRENCHMAN ARE SPORTY BUT
ALSO SOMEWHAT ECONOMICAL
When Bell Taps for First Round Many
Titles and Jeweled Women of Gay
Paree Will Be On Hand.
By William Philip simms.


Paris, June 25.--For the first time
since Jack Johnson, the black giant,
laid stalwart Jim Jeffries on the pugil-
istc shelf at Reno and, unscratched,
took possession of the heavyweight
championship belt, the coveted trophy
will be put into play here Saturday
night, June 81, at the Velodrome d
Hiver, Frank Moran of Pittsburg, U.
S. A., will be the big dusky's opponent,
and from out on the banks of the Ciso,
at Butry-on the Beach, where the
White Hope is training comes word
that he is in great shape Similar re-
ports are filtering out of the johnson
camp, in Asnieres, Just on the fringe
of Paris, johnson, who perhaps not en-
tirely without reason, remarked that he
wouldn't swap Jobs with John ID. Rookie
feller, and who, as this reflection may
be taken to denote, is something of a
business man, is training at home and
cutting expenses. The great out-of-
doors where he does his roadwork is
FREQ and at Luna Park, the scene Of his
gym exercise, he gets real money for
letting the common herd look on.
Between sur-Plage-whieh is
another name for Moran S headquarters
and Asnicres. the one on the north
the other on the south. Paris is all eX-
cited. Never has it seen real world s
championship affair, the most cele-
bratod stunts ever pulled off here be-
ing the CaillauX-Calmetto shooting, the
Dreyfus affair and the revolution, the
last named being too far back for the
Younger bloods to remember, 80, IN
spite of admission prices which are
wreuching from the very roots the
frugal souls of the economical but
sporty Freuchmen, the latter are de-
terminod to answer present at the roll
call ON Saturday night. Unlike Christ
mas, the figure, heavyweight cham
pjcuship fights don come once year.
and bv close shaving ON other eX-
penses, diminishing the daily ration of
absinthe, and holding down on the an
uual tip to the family concierge the
necessary 275 francs or $50 demanded
for a ringsidc seat can be torn from
+ the pocket without causing fatal con
vulsions.
Not Poor Benefit.
No, kind reader, the report that the
johnson Moran fight is to be benefit
performance to aid the poor has no
foundation in truth. Considerable
credit, however, is placed in the rumor
that the fight promoters have decided
to make the ianitor at the Nelodrome
buy general admission before letting
him euter to sweep out on the day OF
the fight 1t is also hruited about that
they debated for several days the ques-
ton of auctioniug off the referee priv
ilege, it being held by part of the man
auemcnt that the referee could see the
fight better than anybody IN the
building. There has been some diff
Guilty in pwsuadiug the people of PARIS
that this is going to hc real champion
ship fight, every fight pulled off here
to date having been advertised along
that line. Only two or three months
ago Jack johnson and jim johnson
pulled off draw for the ''world I
championship and here comes an
ather. so the natives are asking one an
other il this is "oue American "bloof
more. Still, the Ne'odrome with room
, Tor $4,000 people win probably he pref
: ty well filled. Many millionaires arr
already here from all parts of th'
world, drawn by the famous Grand Pri'
which will he run at Iongchamps tn,
Sunday after the fight, These gildet
gentry, being of sporty turn, vii
help the fight promoters q long way to
+ wards paving Johnson his $4,000 guar
I antee, win, lose or draw.
9 Bejeweled Women On Hand,
I when the bell taps for the first rOun,
at lO:30 p. M, the sight which will
r greet the spectators eye would rende
speechless the thousands of American
lovers of the manly art who have SAT
shirt-sleeved, at Reno, Jaeksonvill,
New Orleans aud elsewhere, Beautifr
women in daring evening clothes an
: diamond tiarras will he sitting by tn
/, score at the sides of pompous, monOclo
= gentlemen of the same stripe, bedecke
: in garments seen only at galas at th
|, opera and official receptions in les
! ceremonious lands. Languid and bias
ted nowdered steneiled and rouget
n the women Of high Continental societ
l. --sprnkled with Americans-wil be o
land, longing for n new sensation