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Show Ing quarters there for tho twenty-round twenty-round bout with Frank I'icat?. which yiUl bo staged at Saltair June 9. V . Thompson w-cnt to jjosran at the. re-rjue.sr re-rjue.sr of-the . Commercial dub there, as many of the Cache valley sports h;d neer seen him work out anil were desirous of dolus; so. As the hot Imths at the springs an- (,f preat assistance as-sistance in his trailing. Thompson has decided to return "there fur the hal: ance of hffi training period. , says he will h arlad lo meet any of his Og-den Og-den friends who will come out before he leaves for Salt Lake. I " i (Continued 0:1 Page lilght.) BIB FIGHT TO BE ON IHE-SOUARE SAN" FRANCISCO, June 2. Jack JohiiKrtu could not overcome his lc-J lc-J 'Ire lo gle bis autnmohlb' a thorough tryoiu today and us a result there was .o work of any k 1 11 r dnne at his ' training quartern at trie ocean hearh. , In fact the ontlie .-tatT of IrainoiH j and sparling partners wer given a j treat, I'm- tli champion gathered them al! in bis mnhlru! and set nail Iirlchl and early fn 3nn Jose, fifty miles away. A lii uiKht's work I3 mapped out for Friday night, when die champion w'!l phe an exhibition t the Dream-IsMid Dream-IsMid rink. Johnson will spur six rounds with his regular partners and will devote about forty-five minutes In ; iiiniiFunn siuntB Hver ulnce J"f-f'le." J"f-f'le." Rave his bJg boxinp exhibition a few days npa, Johnson has hern av Ions to hov hl speed and fine con-l'iion con-l'iion to .tha public and It Is expecied thai a larxe crowd of fans? will take th opportunity to pee the negro In nctlou. Johnson Is a near worker in the irymnaslnm and he has Riven the Vord that he will nprlng a few new 1 tnes that will eclipse Jerries' box-Inc. box-Inc. John6eu and his manager. Gecrgc Little, were positive and wrathy In denying a story from Chicago to the effect that Coventor Cillleite had declared de-clared the fight an arranged fake which would land the white man a wlnuer. "There la not a word of truth In the J story sent out from Chicago that Governor Gov-ernor Gillette had declared the big flgbt a frameup and a lot of other stuff," ?al,l Tex Rickard "1 have positive assurance from Chicago that the governor branded the whole supposed interview as false. Ihe world at lar?e can rest at ease that tills flsbt between Jeffries and Johnson will be strictly on the FCpiare 'D every way. "1 will rooHt certainly be the referee of that contest. This Is final. I am determined for many reasons that the public does not know, to be the third man In the ring, and I will positively not step aside for s-.ny one. Both men have cbotien me nnd I will act to the best of my ability. I am confident of belnp able ti fill the place. "For some reasons I welcome the chance to refereo. for I am sine nothing noth-ing with the semblance of crookedness about It will be countenanced I know both men will 6trlve hard for the victory, vic-tory, but I am polng to make sure that both Jeffries and Johnson understand that I will see to It that the contest Ik above board. If 1 notice the sign of a fake I will step li and stop the fight The spectators will be refunded their money dollar for dollar. I am not looking for anything of this kind, but I am prepared to take action If I see reason for doing so." Sam Derger. who 13 in the city, said that Rickard Is satisfactory to Jeffries Jef-fries and it Is settled that Tex will be the referee. . "Our reason for saying that we wou'd agree to Eddie Smith In case Rickard stepped out was simply giving Rickard a chance to resign if he thought his connection in the capacity of referee would hurt the fight," said Berger. "1 am glad that Governor Gillette repudiates the statements attributed to hi in, for I know it would worry Jeffries." j ! JEFFRIES FEU BAD OVER STORY HEN LOMOND. Cal , June 2. "For two pins I'd pack up and take my family back to the ranch and call tho whole thing off," declared James J. Jeffries today, when he was shown an Interview sent out by a news agency from Chicago, quoting Governor James N. Gillette as saying the Jeffries-JohnRon Jeffries-JohnRon fight was a 'frame up" and arranged for the white man tr win Jeffries wam hurt aud angry over the matter. "I cannot believe," be said, "that Gillette has been trutbfulh quoted. I don't believe he ever said a word against th fight, but if he did. It was all uncalled for aud untrue." Turnlnc to the newspaper men. the big fighter ald: "You 1ob who have seen me working work-ing up hero must know that my heart and soul are In the coining scrap and K doeh not slnnd to reason that I would break my nock 'working If ev-ery ev-ery thing w as settled for me to w in. I wonder what I have ever dme In tiie rinp or in any other walk of life to be accused of crookedness. I quit the Illit yame once because I did not care for these conuceted with It, or the knockers who were continually nipping nip-ping li and now this story has come, li'o enough to break a man up." For a while the camp was In a tur rivil as a result of the story. Jim Corbet t boib-d - ever with indignation and wanted to itet all kind "f money that the governor could roi prove the ulleyatlon Later when the Gillette story was (iec'aied untrue by the governor him-Keif, him-Keif, quite returned to the camp and Jeffries went to work again Handball and bug punching to.k up most of bia time. Hoxing was tabooed. Frunk Gotch, tiie wrestler, will arrive ar-rive at the camp the latter part of next week. ' fie soiu a messhge to Jeffries today which read as follows-' follows-' Well, old boy. 1 :-:avcd one championship cham-pionship ami I kjii.w you will hold tho other. Will J In yen right after June 7. wh'n I musi attend the Iowa pil-marles." pil-marles." Jeffries did a Huh; wrettling with Farmer Lurns today. THOMPSON DECIDES ON SPRINGS "Cyclone" Johnny Thompson of Sy-cntuore, Sy-cntuore, 111., has decided to train at the Utah Hot springs after all. Thomp-eon Thomp-eon telephoned- '-last night - from Logan saying that he would , arrive at the spring rorne time today and would take uo hla old train- At Indianapolis Milwaukee 2, Indianapolis In-dianapolis 3. Western League, At Des Moines Des Moines 8, Omaha 11. At Sioux City Sioux City 2, Lined Lin-ed u 1. Northwestern League. At Vancouver Tacoma 1, Vancouver Vancou-ver 2. At Spokane Seattle 0, Spokane 5. Coast League, i At San Francisco Los Angeles 0, Oakland 4. At Los Angeles Vernon 2, San Francisco 4. (Continued from Page Two) I BASEBALL RESULTS i NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won lx6t. PC. Chicneo 23 12 .657 j New York 21 1 -l . G32 , Pittsburg IS li .fi29 ; Cincinnati IS 17 .518 SL Louis 19 2" .487 ' Brooklyn 17 22 .437 j Philadelphia 11 21 .CS2 Boston 14 24 .CCS Cubs Start on Doves. Boston, Juno 1 Chicago won the opening game of its first eastern trip today from Boston. Overall was knocked out In the ninth with two out end one on base, after the locals had scored once, but Ritchie stopped further fur-ther damage. Johnny Kllng caught a good game. Score: R. H. E. Chicago 6 8 2 Boston .1 3 1 Batteries Overall, Richie and Kllng; Brown, Ferguson and Graham. Umpires Johnstone and Moran. Dodgers Take Fifth. Brooklyn, June 1. Brooklyn made It live straight today by winning from Pittsburg, 2 to 1. Barger pitched a brilliant game, allowing only three hits The fielding of Daubcrt was wnsalional. Score; R. II. E mtsburg 1 3 1 Brooklyn 2 7 1 Batteries Lieflcld and Gibson; Burger and Bergen. Umpires Rlgler and Einslle. Pass Day. Philadelphia. June 1. Wretched pitching marked today's game, and Philadelphia lost to St. Louis, 10 to 5. Tho home team's pitchers gave 11 passes and the St. Louis twirlers 7. ilanager Dooin or the Philadelphia team was sent to the club houso by Umpire Brennan for disputing a decision. de-cision. Score: R. 1 1. E. St. Louis 10 12 1 Philadelphia 5 G s 1 Batteries Harmon, Corrldon, Sallee and Phelps; McQuillan. Moren, Flaherty Fla-herty and Moran Umpires O'Day and Brennan. Giants Still Win. , New York, Juno 1 The New York Nationals today won their eighth straight th-lory. defeating Cincinnati, 5 to "J Anderson, the visitors' first plu-her, was relieved by Rowan In the first Inning after he had forced In a run. Maihewon was practically in-vlncllile in-vlncllile w;h men on bases. Score: It. II. E Cincinnati 2 4 1 New York in l i Batteries Anderson. Rowan, Doyle and Mclean; Mathewson aud Myers Umpires Klein rind Kane. ' , AMERICAN LEAGUE. ! Won. Lost, P.C Philadelphia 2f, ,713 New York I'."? o .1,07 Detroit 2?. 10 .590 Ponton 19 ; .-43 Cleveland H is .4T.S Washington 10 I Chicago U 20 235, St. Louis 7 -JS .ji.iJ Detroit-Philadelphia and Cleveland- ' Washington games postponed; ralu. No others scheduled. American Association. At Columbii'v St. Paul I, Colum- I , bus 1- I , At Ivouisvllh' Minneapolis 4, Louis-I Louis-I villr . J At Toledo Toledo-Kansas City ; 1 game postponed; rain. |