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Show JEFFRIES WILL HOT FUMY MORE Refuges Forty-Thonsand-Dollar Purse to Ro Rill Squires. TONOPAH. Nev.. May ,lnmf .1. ,Teffrl"5! pettte.-l n) donhtr: n k to whether he will return to the rins: came ,y the following answer, which came after an offer of a guaranteed purse of 140,000, wired yesterday by Promoters Johnson and Brown. This was (he telegram sent to Jeffries: "Club here Irving to get sirpdres for fuly 1. meet winner of Hart-Schreck flKht on Decoration dav Will you meet winner of that tight Labor dn, purse $40,000? Fight to he Rnish for heavyweight heavy-weight title. Will also allow you $LWn for expenses besides. My backers, Johnson John-son and Brown, are men of means, and ihere win he no delay deposit ing money In hank If von s;iy the word. Will meet you in Los Angeles, June 2, or Prlsco, or will pay all your expenses to come her any time before that to make match." Here Is the answer from defines: "Absolutely nothing doing (Signed) ".IAMBS .1 IEFFRIES." So far as Promoters Johnson and Brown nre concerned, they win never ii:nn attempt i'1 sign up the big ex-champion. ex-champion. From the viewpoint of Johnson John-son and Brown, Jeffries Is no longei champion. .Jeffries does noi lay claim to ihe title and Is on the retired list of his own choosing So if .leffiles has reached the st.ige where h voluntarily retires from the championship and quietly quiet-ly retires to his I arm home, what right have boxing promoters to continue bothering both-ering the Ml: fellow In th, language I of the old ditty, "Please go 'way and let me slc(.p." or : i want to be 1-ft alone, ' ReeniB to best fit Jeffries so iur as his I pugilistic business goes. with ihe positive refusal of .Jcffiles to consider a $40,(ii)(i p. use, tho claims I made yesterday by W. s. Johnson that Marvin nm and Mike Schreck will sei- 1 tie ihe i-r heavyweight championship iltle are to be considered. Jeffries no , longer claims the iiiie. ami Tommy I Burns's claims are based on a questionable question-able 20-round decision over Hart ;ii Los Angeles At the Rnish Harl was strop 5 as in Lhe first round and the ds Ision was I of the hair-line variety |