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Show II JMW ARRIVES I M NEWJOftK Gin Met at Depot by Hundreds of His Race fo Get Glimpse of Champion. WILL FIGHT AXYBODV IX WORLD FOR TITLE Johnson Will Rot Jeffries $10.-000 $10.-000 He Can Defeat NEW YORK. March 29. Xcarly one thousand men greeted Jack Johnson, the pugilist, when ho arrived here to-day. to-day. The crowd was made up for the most part of" negroes, and they cheered with enthusiasm when they first not sigh: of the man of their race who won . the world's heavyweight championship of the prize ring. j Johnson, pleased with his welcome, j held an impromptu reception on the ' platform of the railroad station. He J was greeted by delegations from sport ing clubs and organizations of colored ! people. The reception to Johnson was arranged ar-ranged by Harron Wilkens and Edward Byrd. proprietors of a hotel where Johnson planned to stop while in Xcw York. and the program included a parade pa-rade to (lie hero. Several sightseeing automobiles, heavily loaded with admirers of tho . lighter, were waiting outside the station, sta-tion, and Johnson, with' his immediate ; friends, occupied a machine at tho head ' i of the line. The procession passed through "West I Koriy-sccond street and down Broad- way." j ; All along the roufo the sidewalks i were lined by curious observers and j ' sports, who cheered the champion as lie passed. , Stvrnl hundred persons gathered in front of the West Thirty-fifth street, hotel, ho-tel, where Johnson went from tho station. sta-tion. Tn response to repeated cheers. Johnson appeared on a second-floor bnl-cony bnl-cony and made a little speech, j Will Fight Anybody. 4,'Ifm glad to get back home again," i he said.' ''When T left hero I did not l wear rho crown that 1 now wear, and I while I. wear this crown, T'll do my best to defend it against all comers. T am willing to fight with anybody and ' won't ask tho money in advance, as Burns. did when he f.ught me. My sob1 purpose in coming to New York lodnv was to force Jim Jeffries into a 1 match. During th day I am going to post a forfeit of S5000 for a match for S10.000. I am willing to light any man the world.' Hg Renewed cheering greeted the 'lose n f the I'hinvpion speech and enntin- M ued ;ift"r he had retired into (he hole). H Asked whether he would tight .Sinn- H lev Kiche. Johnson said: H ''I'll fight the first man who covers Hl he money if Jeffries refuses to fight. Hl Ivetehcl is not too small and Corbet t is ; H oo old.-' Hj Johnson said he was going abroad U again, but. he did not Icnnw when. H A number rff receptions and enter- j D tainmcuts have been planned for him H hiring the week. |