Show JIM JEFFRIES TIRED OF STAGE Big Champion Would Rather Rath r Step Ste p pInto Into the Ring King IS WILLING TO MEET HART HAR I SAYS HE WILL BE A MINER MINEI Fl WHEN HE RETIRES I Pugilist James J Jeffries arrived d in i n New York last week accompanied bj by b y hit hid wife Manager Delaney Delancy and spar spat sparring sparring ring partner Kennedy Kenned and secured secure d quarters at Navarre In an aim interview a Jeffries said suid I 1 am not particularly stuck on this jg s acting business I would rathe en or engage engage I gage in ten fights a year than appear U before the footlights during a n sea set season season I Ison son I have been hard at work this th is reason meason and will be glad o 0 get gee gee back bac Ic to my home in Los Angeles and aid d take In ke keds e ea a rest N When asked if I he meet Jack Jar k Johnson in the thc event of the negro de d defeating Marvin Hart in San Sail Fran Frau Francisco I cisco chico Jeffries said No Im not fighting blacks as yi et not while there re are v men in lii the tho tt me field Im not going goin to discuss John rohn Johnsons I sons eons abilities as fiS a boxer He may mo imis L IL be a wonder vonder and all that th lt but hut if any anyone an anone one Is to take my title I r want that thu it itman man to be of my m own color col r If Hurt Hart Ha rt wins I will wUl cheerfully give him lahn a fight figh I suppose it will be up to me to Oo lo 0 so a aHe 0 He IK is i a young Joung fellow and nis ala friends frient ds Is Issay say he has a fine physique I hope pe he will draw though for I 1 am not ni ot going to be drawn Into another r Jack Jalk Ja ek k Munroe farce That affair did not yield yie ld me a penny penn In fact I lost money on onit onit c cit it and I dont like the idea of fighting ng nget for tor the love of it Suppose Hart should refuse to meet me et you OU and there is no rival riyal in sight for or r years What then was asked Jef Jeffries JeffrIes Je r fries replied I guess Ill have hae to quit all alland alland a 11 Il and when I retire Ill not go into the he tI hehe me saloon business either I have plency phen hey y of money enough to tide me over oy the he ti hero re rest ot or o my life lite and In luxury too to heO O 0 When I step steD down and out I am toD go going gi ro o D ing to become a miner I am at pro pre present gia JS a ent eat interested in a piece of property ty Ly in Arizona I own 51 per cent f tha th tI ha ie shares i iThe The champion pugilist then ml his conversation to wrestling H IT s sa 1 id W that he had not heard about George Geore e and the litters desire ie to either wrestle or 01 box him H HI He de le elated he would be flattered to meet in a fight but would not hear of a match on the mat He HI said the same thing applies to Frank Prank Gotch |