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Show JSIVS JEFFRIES' - ' PARTY ARRIVES Champion of the White Race Says He Would Regret Any Mishap to Johnson Prior to July 4, When He is Certain Something Will Strike the Colored Man Big Crowd Welcomes the Big Athletes. man In his class, he has been winning from every one he meets, and winning win-ning easily, and that Is enough to count. Jeffries Is not looking down upon Johnson's ability. JeffrlC6 goes to Mexico to hunt right after the present tour is concluded, which will bp about February 5. He is passionately fond of hunting, and his specialty is bears. He can tell you more stories about hunting than you will believe. The hunt will be the best thing for him For ten weeks he has been in hard work, and the trip to the hills v. Ill be Just the thing to fix him up 1'or serious training. BUSINESS AT TRAINING. At the training quarters It will bo all business. Frank Gotch, Farmer t I. urns and nob Armstrong will start training with him. Jim Corbett will finish out the last thirty days, as a friend and adviser. There will be plenty of hard work. 1 plrtn to offer ?250 for any man, that can stay four rounds with hlra. In that way there will be plenty of tough fellows show i up who will give Jeffries the rough ! work be needs. There will be others In the training camp, but we have not '. decided upon them, j I want to tell you what I know j about Jeffries. I have boxed with him I for many weeks. You hit him a stiff l punch and then stop and look. He looks like a mountain. I want to tell I you you are fighting a man, and the ' best man Jn the world j BY TEX RICKARD. It was just as I said. Jeff doesn't I care where he meets Johnson. When ! I told him Salt Lake he said all rlcht. , I expect within the next two weeks j to meet Oleason and he will say Salt ; Lake, the same as I. Il will be Salt-i Salt-i air on next July 4. j New York, Jan. 21. One sometimes : has to go away from home to learn the news. A London newspaper, . which has just reached this side, throws smie light on the blstorv of j Jim Jeffries, ft says: j "Jeffries, former heavyweight cham-; cham-; pion. Is a direct descendant of Ird Jeffries, the famous hanging Judge of oldc-n times. Lord Jeffries had seven sons, six of whom were prominent Jacobites.' Ja-cobites.' After the robelllon they escaped es-caped to Virginia, and the pugilist traces his descent In a direct line from one of them. "Judge Jeffries conducted the fam-I fam-I ous court held after the battle of ' Sedgemoor in lfiSj. when 220 cxecu-j cxecu-j tions were ordered and carried out. He died In the Tower of Indon." The Jeffries-Gotch championship athletic company arrived In tbe clty at 3:35 t bis afternoon on Rio Grande train No. 1. and the athletes were escorted es-corted to the Reed hotel by the manager man-ager of the Ogden theater and a number of other Ogden citizens. There was a large crowd at tbe depot when the train pulled In, and the street from there to the hotel was well lined with people anxious to get a glimpse at the big men. Jeffries was not tn the party, but will arrive on a later train. Manager Berger said It would be perfectly safe to tell the people that Mr. Jeffries will be the Jeffries of former days, or better, when he enters' en-ters' the rlug July 4th, and that he will make the be9t showing of any ohtor time In his history. Ho also said that tbe tour the company is making has been a triumphant one, so far, and that from one end of the country to the other Jeffries and Gotch, together with tho other stars of the company, have been given splendid ovalnns. The sale of seats for the show at the theater tonight has been phen-ominal, phen-ominal, and the one who gets standing stand-ing room, unless a place has been previously engaged, will be fortunate indeed. It is anticipated that an informal in-formal reception will be given Mr. Jeffries at the Weber club rooms after tbe show Tbe party will leave Ogden tomorrow tomor-row morning at 9.30 o'clock for Poca-tello, Poca-tello, Idaho, If the big boxing contest Is held in Utah, and It seoms certain that it will, it Is a certainty that Jeffries will establish es-tablish raining quarters In Ogden. Assurance to this effect has been given giv-en tho Ogden parties having the matter mat-ter in band. It Is emphatically stated stat-ed that Mr. Jeffries Is especially favorable fav-orable to Ogden as his training quarters. quar-ters. The champion said. In answer to the question what he thought of tb rumor that Johnson had been killed, that be should very much regret such an occurrence, but that he did not credit the story. He said he Is anxious anx-ious to meet the man In the roped arena and, if anything should happen to prevent the contest, ho would be much disappointed. F. V. Peterson, manager of the theatrical the-atrical end of the JeffriesGotch tour, preceded the party to Ogden In order or-der to have a few hours with his brother-in-law. Paul Stccker. Mr. Peterson was entertained during th day, enjoying a regular Ogden welcome. wel-come. There was no confirmation of the story from New York that Johnson had been killed today. The report came from the Hearst papers Interviewed In Salt Lake. The following stntementa were given giv-en to the Herald-Republican by members mem-bers of the all-star aggregation yesterday: yes-terday: BY JAMES J. JEFFRIES. I don't care where I meet Jack JohnsonIn John-sonIn Salt Lake or California; it doesn't make any difference. I have more friends on the. coast, and my home is there, and for that reason l would like to have the content there. But wherever Rlckard and Gleason say the bout ie to be staged, there we will agree. I have never eald that I would not meet Johnson In Utah. If the promoters who have charge of tho bout ay Salt Lake, it will be Salt Lake for me. I know I have many friends in Utah. I want to contradict the statements attributed to me that I regard John son as a Joke. 1 appreciate what depends de-pends on my winning the battle, and I intend to do so. Tho question of a picture fight Is too foolish to mention. I think that In my ring career I have demonstrated that I go Into win, and aa quick as I can. I do not intend to change my policy now, and I know-that know-that the American sportsmen who are backing me know that such will be the fact. 1 will be in shape for the battle. I am weighing about 230 now, but the question of weight Is secondary to that of getting into tho right 6hapc. When I enter the ring I will, be equal to the occasion. After this tour ends I will go to Mexico to hunt. Tho articles call for my being on the scene of the battle ninety days before July 1, and I will be there. That Is all; for the rest see Berger. BY SAM BERGER, Manager and present sparring partner of Jeffries. I want you to deny emphatically that Jeffries and myself, or either of us. have stated that the battle would or would not take place In Utah or anywhere else. Tho question Is one for the promoters, Rlckard and Glea-Bon, Glea-Bon, to decide. We do not care to enter en-ter into their present controversy nnd we will not until they both way they cannot agree. I have every confidence confi-dence that they will come to an un-dertsandlng un-dertsandlng within a few days. With the two together for fifteen minutes, the matter would be settled. I know that they both have been misinformed mis-informed about the statement of the other. Tbey are the ones who are to rtage the battle, and, knowing them both. I am certain that they will do nothing other than for the good of all parties concerned. I also wish to state that I am a lifelong friend of Gleason's, and. of course, want him to get all that la coming to him. I wish also to say that I am the manager of Jeffries, and am looking out to secure for him the best deal from a business standpoint. That Jfl my only position. If the promoters pro-moters decide uron Salt Lake, It la all satisfactory to mo. I have every confidence con-fidence In Tex Rlckard and also that he and Glea6on will work In harmony. JEFF NOW IN CONDITION. As for Jeffries. He, at the present time, la In as good condition as when he met many of the bt-rt men he has encountered. He looks upon thlj match seriously. Only one other did he regard In the samo light, and that was Dob Fltzflmmons. He Las but one thought, and that 1 to fit hlmeelf to meet Johnson In the bet potnlbln condition. He realises the weight upon his shoulders, and. as you know, he is a man to make good to his friends. He pays he Is going to win, but he has never said In what round. While Johnson has never met a |