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Show " JEFFRIES 'S VERSION ON BURNS-JOHNSON FIGHT I..OS AXGELES, Dec. 25. James J. Jeffries, former heavyweight champion of the world, evinced no surprise when the news reached him that Johnson had won from Burns. "I thought ho would win unless they had his legs and hands both tied," was his characteristic comment tonight. "Burns had no right to fight Johnson for the heavyweight championship. champion-ship. I nevor looked for any other result, re-sult, but I did not expect tho fight to go so far," he added. When he was asked about the probability proba-bility of bringing off a championship fight in this city between Johnson and the winner of tho coming Kaufman-Barrv fight. Jeffries snld that his club will make an Immedlato effort to arrange such an affair, but that it would doubtless doubt-less take some time to decide what could be done about It He said that an offer will be cabled to Johnson at once and thaL it will be a substantial one. At the present time, he said, it is not certain cer-tain that cither Barry or Kaufman would consent to fight the colored man, both of them having inclinations toward drawing the color line, aa far as Johnson ia concerned, con-cerned, at least. Asked what ho thought of the Ida of a colored fighter being the champion heavyweight of the world, Jeffries said that he had nothing to say about that. He said that he has retired from tho ring for good and all and has no intention whatever of trying to be champion again. |