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Show JOHNSON TRAINING ON BOARD VESSEL Special to The Tribune. PACIFIC OCEAN. Aboard Vessel. Feb. 15 (by wireless). Jack Johnson. the heavyweight champion pugilist of tho world, is the chief attraction and talk of tho sporting fans on hoard. The black man Is confident ho can defeat any man In the world today, and Is anxious to reach the rnltcd States ln order that he can talk to Jeffries. When the captain of the bont advised Johnson that It would be about the middle mid-dle of March before he would see his country, he was put out a little. Johnson John-son has rigged upi rude training uuar-ters uuar-ters and will keep .himself In condition during the long voyage. He punches the i bag every day for lac amusement of those on bonrd I |