Show IS WILLING TO BACK HIS MAN AN Manager Little Agrees es to Bet on Johnson in An Answer Answer Answer to Jeff 4 MUST BE PREVAILING ODDS f SOME HOT DOPE FROM A CHICAGO LIVE ONE BY EDWARD ARD W F SMITH Chicago Aug AUL 15 George Little man manager manager manager ager and financial backer of ot Jack John Jobb Johnson son champion of ot the world will bet 18 lOj J more on his man against Jim Jeffries under novel conditions Little will post a forfeit and sign an agreement now or within a short time Ume in inthe Inthe Inthe the future when Jeffries returns to Amer Arner America ica if jf necessary on the day of the con contest contest test at the prevailing p odds od at that time any good betting man or sport follower of note to determine the price at that time Um This ThIB announcement ement come co in response to the news cabled over here from Jeff Jeffries ries that he will insist upon having a side BIde bet or there will be no fight In the preliminary agreement a signed in inthe inthe inthe the Chicago American office Little and Johnson agreed to bet In the main stake Little explained to Berger at the time that it would be the height of folly i ion t on their parts to wager more than this thle at V 1 even money when it seemed a certainty that Jeffries would go 80 Into lato the ring a strong favorite at perhaps as high as asto t 2 tto to l I Berger IBerger seemed to see ee the force of such an argument and at the time was quite content to get the although of course he would like to have bave observed Jeffries injunction to get the higher amount If J he could The day after the thea agreement a was signed Jeffries landed In hi Plymouth England and is ta reported to have said that he did not sanction such sucha a match and intimating that Berger had hadi i his hi authority Then n it was that ii JP spoke bout about insisting upon a bet of flOO Jeff Gets Best of It This proposition is about as a fair a athing athing athing thing as aa Jeffries could have handed to him Little said in telling about the offer he Intended to make to Berger Ber r as u soon noon as he be saw him We are giving him way vay the best of It in betting at f vena Figure it out yourself The Jeff Jeffries Jeffries ries rles party part could easily eully dispose of this even ven money at a nice profit in advance of Qt the fight tight Mr dr Berger to Is a p business man enough to realize that we are not throwing our money away in that fashion There are ot oter er ways in hi which we can put up the coin If It Jeffrie is a business man he be will see the force foCe of our reasoning and not Insist Ins lt upon ever eyer betting even money when w we can probably get t Z to 1 for our dough You will wUl note notA In the English dispatches patches dl that an Austrian Australian Aust lan named HIne Is 18 about ready to b bet t a hunk on Jeffries w hat we JIM to hear because the more mon monthey they will bet on the former champion n h better will wUl be the odds on the pros pres present ent nt champion Please note what hat I say about former champion and present ent champion the way waT we feel fee about it and the way the public does too I 1 Ith think th ink Bet Is Large When you ou come to look over the old records and the new and take a glance t some of ot the side bets of ot the past put and ad the fh mighty scarce ones of the present I ILa Jave La ave to reach rea h the conclusion that is 18 a pretty fair sort of ot a water at that But as I said before we are willing to gamble much higher than this but we weare weare w ware are unwilling to take the worst of ot the price Little tAttle wired James W Coffroth at San Francisco yesterday that unless the price of ot for tor Johnson in the proposed bout bou b ut with Jack OBrien was raised there would be nothing doing This Tide was the offer originally originally made for tor the bout Coffroth want wanted wanted wanted ed them to box ten rounds at Colma on September f 8 as u a sort of ot preliminary to the bout in October Little however la is not satisfied to let his I big circus go SO at that price even oven for anything as soft as OBrien I |