Show JOHNSON SAYS HIS CAMP AMP WILL HAVE JUST WORKERS I BY ED W S SMITH Chicago Jan fancy retinue of hIgh traIners and helpers for tor Jack Johnson No high reputations the blacks camp when the real work begins Just George Little and a few others all And theres a reason DId anybody help me win the chain cham championship of the tho world Johnson asked me the other day Did anybody lend me a helping hand when I was str struggling g gling along doIng the best that I could at all times I notice anybody excepting a few newspaper critics who thought r 1 could fight and said so all the tho help I 1 got when I needed h help lp Now that Im up at the top and real really ly dont neEd much help they are be beginning beginning ginning to swarm around mo me with of offers fern fers to assist In ray my training I am not anybody in particular but you have seen the tho names of different fellows like Too Joe Gans and Joe Jeanette and the rest of them mentioned you Well none of them will be In my camp And Jack say all this with any degree of resentfulness or It was wasa a plain matter of fact In the case with him lIe He simply cannot see why he shoud hire men men of big reputations who cannot help him mch mchIll Ill have just eleven cleven people In the camp according to my present calculations Jack told me Ive got It all figured out and there wont be anybody there with a worldwide reputation but myself either And Little who the party promptly furnished a list of those that have been named so far for forthe forthe the camp Here is the list The LIst Jack Johnson fight fighter r George Little manager and boss of the job Tom Little ot of Chicago Georges brother Frank Sutton a Pittsburg hotel man Marty Cutter Cutler and Tack Jack Heinen spar sparring sparring ring partners Gunboat Smith perhaps as spar sparring sparring ring partner Barney Fur Furey y of Philadelphia Two or three other men will wUl be engaged for the camp but they will be 00 picked up in San Fran isco and will be merely rubbers and general helpers Mind you this Is no slap at anybody and I dont caire how many and big men Jet Jef Jeffries fries gets to help him Johnson contin continued continued in explanation The whole thing Is here I won the worlds champion championship championship ship on what I know kilOW Im not going to tol l learn arn anything from anybody in my camp in regard to fighting I know now all I ever will know probably So does Jeffries for that matter but he seem to realize It My training will be to fit me physically for fol a hard rough murderous to learn any of the fine points of the game Wants Results Why then should I surround myself with ed men who can be of no possible use to me The men I have now are earnest hardworking men they understand mo me thoroughly and I Ithem Ithem them are going to get results with me and all I ask That In Ina ina a nutshell is what I want Manager Little has things nicely mapped out Despite the petty annoy annoyances annoyances ances of injunctions and threats re regarding regarding garding Johnsons theatrical time the Little party Is the even tenor of its way Who Vho will vill be In charge of JacJ training I asked Little George Little you bet beU the man manager manager ager answered Nobody Is going to monkey around this big fellow this time with aU alt that money and the championship in sight Mind you Jack never nuver neglected his work when he had hadan hadan an Important fight on This time there might be some meddling of some sort and Im to be there to stop all flees |