Show DENIES RUMORS TIT BOUT WILL HILL NOT B BE HELD IID Champion Declares There Is s. s No Quarrel Between S RicHard RicKard and Gleason Geason i PORTLAND Or Jan 28 Jeffries Will arrive here bere today lie will wUl go from s Seattle attIe he ho says to Chicago where his wife Is s sick In a 0 hospital In only one of ol three bree talks Jeffries has has' given out since arriving In this state has bas he Intimated I that there may be no tight fight and In that o says that It will occur unless Johnson Johnson John John- Johnon son on backs down do n At Boise Ida Jeffries declared In a n certain speech that he be intended to give Johnson the worst beating a man ever got He said that he Intends to tear Into in into into in- in to Johnson from the first tap of the gong and never let up on him until he hits the canvas for the count He also said that he believes Johnson Is Js afraid of him and andro ro ynde e some rather uncomplimentary references ref ref- ref ref- to the present holder of tho the championship V Stories Are Lies V lAt At La Grande Or Jeffries' Jeffries attention was as called to recent newspaper reports S that there ther l Is considerable doubt as to whether the fight will ever occur and that his intention to return east after visiting Seattle is taken to mean nothing nothing noth noth- ing ingelse else In reply J Jeffries said The report of m my calling off the fight now or later is the invention of some Unscrupulous unscrupulous unscrupulous un un- scrupulous reporter I 1 will return east after leaving Seattle but only to meet m my wife who is ill in a Chicago hospi hospi- tal I will be in Los Angeles not later than February 15 to begin training for forthe forthe forthe the tight fight That gives me plenty of ot time All AilI ll I need Is rounding Into condition Jeffries added that it Is uncertain where the fight will be held Continuing i V herald sald V i StUl Good Friends i All All this newspaper talk about Gleason Gleason Gleason Glea Glea- son and Rickard is without foundation They are re and always have been the best miI 1 am going to see this thing through to toa a finish said Jeffries in conclusion Unless Unless Unless Un less Johnson backs down July 4 I 1 will again demonstrate the superiority of the white race Pendleton was the next place that the big pugilist stopped Here he was de decidedly decidedly decidedly de- de uncommunicative About all that could be drawn from him was the statement statement state state- ment that he knew nothing of ot any re reported reported reported re- re ported estrangement between Rickard and Gleason and declared that the stor story i originated in New York City He also i said ald he had bad no knowledge of any meetIng meet- meet log Ing with Gleason in Portland today He repeated that he would be In Los Angeles about bout February 15 adding that he will remain there for a time and then come up to his training quarters When asked where these quarters would be Jeffries de declined lIned to answer |