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Show FIGHT IliTEl IS 0i Fans of Entire Worldjff Watching forJejJt Johnson XewaMf SHARKEY GETSBEE W THINKS HE cX Papke Is Figuring gjK Defeating mM Stanley KetcfaiK BY JEFF THOMPiSl By Teased Wire to The TriiK N'EW YORK. April " "mMT Jack JohnEon lias Bona hwjKj tho noblo and manly nrtef3r but regular art. ye8i !B pion Is now fully launch jX litigation over a new pUijW realms of music and HterMKi says ho will spend a KcWa his earnings alter July ijgMj Before Jack started west h9f of last conference with hitJK torneys tolling them thai jLB mlnod to contest blttcrlv vJB musical llrni which p)acj7M Jn his residence. Johnson hLB dally constructed for hi SK costing J2500 and he vnt rB to think that another llmnH to foist a S200 Instrunwnt Speaking of literature son says that hi favorite cHt Napoleon and Hamlet. lB T alius liked thorn DanfeW? I scon Battling Nejson aifMS Plained tho clnmpt.m, 'AfijflB fighters loo and Napoleon enough scrapper. But 1 donH novel books at all. I llkt mathematics. ' kB Johnson Is due at Salt LriB and at Los AngelcK on the UB Ho says ho will be hard at coast by May 1. '-H Tho authorities around SuB California have begun to loekH lions near Rowardcnnan. MH started to train thero the pB converted Into a minlamreMB Hotel accommodations tavTjB from S2 a day to J.1 and sportH men havo begun to drill In (nB Among them aro many nhojH They would bet on any thlnH by Marathon to n pie eitH Gaming establishments havfiB stalled and roulette, crap dB poker and keeno flourish , uTvH pristine vigor. Isltors In'iiH! are also being soaked, I aiB parking epnee. However, ItB nature to take tho good eMH gain and the Kowardennu'.B hardly be blamed; they nujr HE another chance. Jeffries has taken oft so ggB since he began training, buH Continued on FolloKicg,jF INTEREST IS g i ON THE INCREASE rf lucd From Preceding Pa0. 1 aled to glvo the correct llgurcs, owing false impressions to get lat he Is Btlll either ponderous-'lijfor ponderous-'lijfor unnaturally light. When Stmc homo from luuropc last ii te declared ho could tip the j S3 than i!30. Jeffries will spend j ifmdro weeks at his camp, and 1 tlnues the strenuous work he 3 lp losing steadily. If he can o pounds, which is very likely, Z 'lighter than at any time since Z b championship from Pob Fitz-Z Fitz-Z n 1S9D. It is a question wheth-n wheth-n lid have his old-tlmo speed and ' t 215 pounds. ( :ems to bo no doubt that Jef-tied Jef-tied all of 2C5 pounds when he S h!s return to the ring a year Staking oft forty pounds he iT? LEo intereateinc question, Is auction a handicap or a bene- sy to see why the boilcrmaker -1 nceal his weight. The real v? Jeffries would bo a valuablo "i Information in the Johnson ihnson now weighs something 'u idunds, but says he will take J; lithls before he gets into tho ire. the fast and clever little J. tght, who created such a sen-jfistic sen-jfistic circles in tho oast, Is J rapidly that he will soon have "E to the featherweight division. V? ivent ho will run up against L' If a bout between Moore .'could bo arranged at this time, j1 rers say it would create more lian any fight in years. At- jako 122 pounds rlngsido with-V with-V s a hair, and Is spoiling for a f .' Moore used to mako 114 and a easily, but now tho best he 17. tfPapke Confident. iKftpkc Is so confident of beating b jiuss of Pittsburg before the pj 1. A. C. on May 14, that he rm Promoter Jeems Coffroth to tic mother match for him with V ietchcl. 3 1 ;taal plan was that tho winner )k ipke-Klauss fight should meet A lit tho Illinois Thunderbolt sees it victory already. Papkc has forth to arrango his Ketchel m ptbe. aamo time as tho Joffrles-a Joffrles-a sht. rwas made to Billy to meet 3 before Sam joins the Jeffries 3 amp. but Papko says he has !J color lino. He declares that. S Is nocessarv for championship A f.will never fight another negro. 4 !1b not from the south at that. ft Iwen Moran and Tommy Mc-M Mc-M wt In San Francisco next Frl- ti for a twenty-round battle, jfon tho coast will bo treated ibattle. Momn's good showing arlem Tommy Murphy shows as tho stuff in him, and cvor mrthy boxed "Cyclone" Thomp-iweiity-round draw he 1ms been nHhe popular estimation. Mc-i Mc-i a California hoy, and his edict that ho will soon bo In at to light Wolgast. jpoulon, who made such a good .,nFNew Orleans and in tho cast, k"v.ikadlng liguie In tho elimination 9 Itch at tho National Sporting Plifallfornla. . Monte Attell, tho , iltbantam, brother of Abe, will 'Jrcr Stanley thore. This will . JjFrat fight of the elimination .Iwjers who will figure arc Young ,njnd Franklo Burns. j illsiiaikey In Front. 4rkey Is tha latest challenger jpnner of tho Joflrlcs-Johnson jpnest, this isn't a Jok(j. I ,?J think of trj-lng to put a joko v- HTawm," whilo he Is so serious ttor. Scz Tom: "I will bo at lo In Emeryville, Cal., on tho o flght botweon Jeirrles and Ittd I will challenge tho winner, avon t anything on me clthor i'know I can lick Johnson. It's tyot whether or not Jeffries ao decisively. ft you that I am in earnest In r, I will begin actual training lay I feel as good as T ever i5 life. I am only thirty-six ge. I havo never- been foolish .ttcr of phynlcnl abuso, and I '. I can glvo Jeff as hard a iy as I did In Coney Island, smber, Jeff is always man say that I gave him tho tough-ie tough-ie over got." weight Champion Abo Attell ny Murphy aro going to ex-ncheH ex-ncheH In a ten-round bout on .of April 28. They were cn-nlglit cn-nlglit by Jim Buckley to moot u bout at tho stag of tho Em-f. Em-f. in tho Manhattan Casino. IB always been of tho opinion fculd glvo Attell a hard battlo nd8. "Foxey Abe" Iohl no tlmo B, to take him on. This ought jat contest, as Murphy has im-JBldorahly im-JBldorahly in his fighting since 'Attell In Philadelphia on Janu-p. Janu-p. After this bout Murphy will B; to California, where ho has Ised many bouts, 'rom tho showing In tho bout SJMoran at tho Fairmont A. Baldwin, tho Boston light- ?'d not havo much of a chance 'tImp.ion Wolg:ist in a forty-' fbattlc, Baldwin posted $1000 fiW& , Wolgast sevonil weeks hardly will bo recognized by "4 P"BlHst, now that Momn &?lIP lib easily. Morau, on tho V" f' confident that he can A3 nlat Hten I" thlt dlroctlon toiit horo for Siin Francisco, M E,,I,niCut Tommy McCarty in v! ftund bout at the Broadway A. 'fil2i3, MPni wolghed 127 I10 , PPed Baldwin and ! a ncrful skill lie says ho can gUiounjls, tho featherweight i fjBht'tlU pref,,rfl to so after |