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Show WQLGAST HDLDS Must Have Twenty-TIioiisand-Dollar Gnarantco to Fight Battling Nelson. FREDDY WELSH FAVORED FOR MATCH WITH CHAMPION Jeffries-Johnson Training System Sys-tem Entirely Revolutionized From Old Beefsteak Table. BY JEFF THOMPSON. Bv Leased Wire to The Tribune NEW YORK, May 7. There is more than a passing possibility that Colonol Theodore Eoosevclt will bo present at the .Jeffries Johnson tifiht, July 4, unless the California governor Rives oar to tho national Methodist wail and attompts to block thc bout. Tho colonel likes a fight. He likes to participate, and ho likes to look on. Ho likes boxing matches nnd when he was police commissioner com-missioner of this city ho used to attond the fiphts "to see that things went right. n He is a boxer of ability himself, him-self, and his old instructor, Mike Donovan, Dono-van, says ho has the hardest punch ot anv man not in tho ring. iioosovclt will bo in tho -west next summer. Ho has accepted invitations to fairs in Cheyenne and Galycston. Just when ho is going west ib not settled at this moment, but he will likoly go early and stay lato, for ho ndnurcs western pooplo and western scenery. Jack Glcasou is coming east to present pre-sent a ticket to Colonel Roosevelt when tho hunter getB back from Europe. Mr. I Gleason will tender a tickot for tho finest seat in the arena, ami if Colonel Roosovelt will consent to attond ho can havo a wholo section to himself. Tho strenuous one no doubt would like nothing better, but that trivial thing of public opinion must cut some figure. However, thc ticket hasn 't been refused yet. Jack Johnsor 's training programme-providos programme-providos for a daily rising time of 6 a. m. Then he dons tho spiked shoes for a run. At 7:30 that importod chof sets tho table and lays out the first meal .of the da'. Jack scans the bill anxiously and inquires: "Wbar am do frog legs I ordcrod last night?" "Ah. monsieur, I have ze frog limbs," replies tho chef. Then Jack settles down to consomme, troufflcs, Sierra quail, rod-headed duck and winds up on Neopolitan ice- cream. "Bv thnt timn hr. is rnndv for a snin around San Francisco in his automobile. Next is a visit to tho gymnasium. Hero is bag punching, medicino ball and shadow boxing. Next conies a rest, then another meal. This is followed by a siesta, after which the champion cuts into tho rough work, slamming his trainers. Next supper; then orchestral entertainment interspersed with auto-ing, auto-ing, and into tho hay at 10 o'clock. Jeff Tolls Stories. Jeffries likes to tell stories, Tn training train-ing ho likes to laze around in the evening even-ing before bedtimo listening and chipping chip-ping in with a contribution occasionally, occasional-ly, nore is one he tells on Tom Sharkey: "While Tom was getting ready to open his saloon in New York ho took a trip to Europe and, while in Paris, he visited thc Louvre. Tom oouldn't get his mind off his saloon plans, and ho thought that, if he saw anything abroad in tho way of paintings or statuary with which he could grace his bar, he would buy it. When Tom saw tho ancient bust of tho "Venus de Milo, ho thought ho bad found just the thing. True, the bust was broken, but Tom decided that ho would swing a couple of curtains over the broken arms and hide the other broken places with some kind of drapery. Tom walked up to an attendant, and said: " 'Say, pard, how much fer thc dame ovor there with her flippors busted 7' "It took the attendant some time to comprehend, and when he realized that Tom was trying to buy the statuo ho was horror-stricken. Ho told Tom that it was so rare that no man was rich euouch to purchase it. " 'Gee I' muttered Tom, as he turned away. 'I coujd got. a botter statue than that in tho Bowery for a dollar and a half any day.' " How about too many cooks spoiling the broth 7 Among tne trainers and sparriug partners at tho Jeffries training train-ing camp are Sam Langford, Jog Choyn-ski, Choyn-ski, Farmer Burns, Sam Eerger and Bjlly Papke. Armstrong is another, Jeffries is in as good condition as he could be expoctcd to be in. The- men are both undergoing the nervous strain of daily advice, unusually unusual-ly hard work and tho gruelling of a new system of life. Some day training train-ing will bo made more natural than it is now. About Samo Size. When Jeffries and Johnson stand side by.sido tho black seems to loom over thchito man. But the figures show a different talc. Jeff is supposed to be a quarter of an inch taller than Johnson. Johnson's. shoulders are nearly near-ly two inches broardcr, but Jeffries has tho biggest chest, both in normal attitude and under cxpunsion. J eft' has a 38 waist and Johnson a 37. Johnson has the bigger arms and legs, but all in all the' seem to be pretty evenly matched in size. Thc English Gghters.have . begun to drift ovor. We have Digger Stanley, the bantam, and Jem Driscoll, tho featherweight, both of whom are likely lads and spoiling for fights. Since Driscoll knocked Spike "Robinson out in London with a terrific punch his stock has risen steadily, Jem has aspirations as-pirations upon tho world's featherweight feather-weight championship and is anxious to meet Abe Attell. Jem already holds a featherweight belt in England, presented pre-sented by Lord Lonsdale, having won it once and clinched it afterwards in two other victories. The Digger wants loT?.?,t at Abe's brother, Monte Attell. Billy Papke and Prank Klaus ot Pittsburg will meet in California either i"1.0. ln.JHno, or enrlV in Julv. The fight will likely bo held about the time of tho Jeffries-Johnson battle, and will be staged by Jim Coffroth in his opon-air opon-air arena at; Colma. Papke, who has been gotting into condition by sparrine at tho Jeffries camp, will moot Joe Thomas next Saturday Sat-urday night at Colma. Thomas and Papke have mot before, but this timo Joe believes that ho will be able to show tho Illinois .Thunderbolt a few things about tho game ho never knew before. Stanley Kotchel and Jack Johnson are agreed upon one thing: That tho automobile ought to play an important part in the training of a lighter. K.et-chel K.et-chel and his yellow car arc inseparable insepar-able during training days, and Johnson contends that a red car gives better results. However, that is a question of acstheticism rather than a knowlodgo of the physiological result of exercise. Wolgast After Money. Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee, our new lightweight champion, is anxious to got back to harness and he wants to light on the coast in July. He is oounting on mooting eithor Freddy Welsh or Battling Nelson about tho time of thc heavyweight soiroe. Welsh i6 scheduled sched-uled "to meet Packy McFnrland before tho National Sporting club in London lato this month, but ho is also anxious (he says) to meet WolgaBt. Wolgast has an offer of $15,000 from Sid Hester Hes-ter for a go with oithor Welsh or Nelson. Nel-son. Ad is getting to the point whore he wants a little moro coin. But despite this he has joined thc hold-out army and says it will take $20,000 to start him in a scheduled forty-fivo round go with any one. "Ad" profer6 Nelson because ho has promised the former champion first chance. He says, however, that he is like Nelson or any other lighter he wants the money and is going to fight the man who will bring nim the most. The coast promoters appear to favor WelBh over Nelson, as they think a new fighter will draw more "fans," but, all other things being equal, Wolgast Wol-gast is going to insist on a match with Nelson. Marvin Hart, tho old-time heavyweight, heavy-weight, is through with tho game forever. for-ever. Marvin now spends his time chasing chas-ing robbers and automobile speeders in Louisville, Marvin has a great deal of respect for Jeffries 's chances next summer. I might add that Hart is a city detective de-tective in the Kentucky city. The fight between Sam Langford and Tommy Burns beforo Sid Hester's club in California on Labor day will bo for a $25,000 purse. Tho fight will go forty-fivo rounds, if it goes to the limit. Joe Ganfl has given up the idea of fighting just now, and has gone to the coast on a hunt for health. The ex-lightweight ex-lightweight champion left for his home in Baltimore Saturday and said he was going to beat it west as soon as possible. |