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Show I ITERS HAVE es and Johnson Are Al-dy Al-dy in the Best of Physical Physi-cal Condition. Am ARE WARNED BOUT VARIOUS PITFALLS - es Will Make Tour of the Forld. Starting After . Big Fight. BY JEFF THOMPSON, sod Wire to The Tribune. YORK. June -i One month from ho heavyweight championship of lrt will bo decided In San Fran-'hen Fran-'hen James J.- Jeffries, the unde-ctired unde-ctired chnmpion, meets the pros- Jcr of the belt, Jack Johnson of iiston. Tex. The white man has f.a favorite In tho betting, although da son has a big following In both the jfand the west. The only place on M nap where the folks think he hasn't vsl t show Is in the South. JD fries has bren In active training for -S y two months at Den Lomond, while sm Son hnn been working earnestly for fm v a fortnight- Johnson says he '9 tavc prepared for the fight In three ML. s. and points to the fact that ho mm ired for his battle with Tommy 9 a (wnon ho won the title) In only five Sm p. mid did nil his road work before jap Jock In tho morning at that. 1B2 s" negro champion is well satisfied $M Jhls past performances. "The way Mm oks at it Is. that if he had gone to iP Jng when his advisers wanted him Ht wou'11 nnvc UQe dead stale by this . th men are already in a condition so ?M y perfect tliat one wonders what ,lthey can expect from nature. Their jp cal condition Is described by tho old "-sh sporting term, "as fit as trout," i means that they couldn't be fit-pen fit-pen Johnson climbs into the ring 4 it will bo a different Johnson from (trapping negro boy who beat his into an arena In Frisco a few 1 ago to see Jeffries fight Gus in. Tho coon must be given credit" ightlng his way tip the pugilistic r. He is wealthy and owns two t mobiles and has a lot of good prop-In prop-In Chicago, and just to think that 0 many yearn ago he couldn't raise rh money to buy a glass of beer. Inaon blew lino Frisco to sec the ibs-Ruhlln battle and didn't have j. Hp hud been doing: odd jobs kJ a "livery stable and picking up r, dollars by boxing In "prelims" and ing craps. He sneaked Into tho and hid underneath, but was dis-ed dis-ed and dragged out. Then bo pro-id pro-id to he an A, D. IF. messonger boy Continued on Following Pago. FIGHTERS HAVE A MONTH MORE Continued from Preceding Page. and said he had to 'deliver a message to Uuhlln. This ruse also failed to work. Finally he manascd to sneak m and. Just as they were about to cast him out again, he said: "Say. you nil. I'so Sam Prultt, do janitor ob dls Jmlldln'." Out he wont. "At this juncture . a sport took pity on Johnson and bought him a ticket. How different now! Fitfalls for Fighters. In former times pugilists wore warned about various pitfalls Into which their suddenly acquired wealth might trap thorn, but a brand new one has developed now showing that the game kccp3 paco with tho times. It is moro or less of a disease and it is called automobilitls. Jack Johnson has it worse than any other, oth-er, illthougli Stanley Kelchel Is not far behind. .Johnson, who thinks that a chauffeur is greater than president of the United Stales, owns two cars, one capablo of making cighty-llvc miles an hour and he is never happy unless ho is riding in one of them. He has boon arrested ar-rested for speeding, doubtless, more times than any other man In .tho United States. Stanley Ketchel owns a red devil and he gets his pleasure In making difficult turns and outdistancing policemon on motorcycles who are trying to pinch him for speeding. He has been arrested four or five times. Ad Wolgast has developed a faculty for getting Into trouble with Ills new automobile, Ad shows all the line arts of a professional chauffeur by tho way ho has been ninnlng down innocent in-nocent bystanders lately. Battling Nelson Nel-son owns an automobile, although he isn't a bug on the suVJect. Jeffries owns- one and admits that he likes to rldo in it, but ho isn't a daredevil racer like Johnson, John-son, Ketchel and Wolgast. I.H. 1... hnn.. vvn-n 1..P V? wlfo than himself so far. Abo. Attell sticks to taxicabs and he spends enough In a year beating up and down Broadway Broad-way in an electric cab to buy a six-cylinder killer capable of Urst-class manslaughter. man-slaughter. Poor old Robert FItzslmmons cannot afford a daredevil car,' but if he were In the heyday of his famo now ho would doubtless own a whole stable of them. The damngo Nelson has done to roads and fences in and about Hcdgc-wlsch. Hcdgc-wlsch. 111., is a shame. But the king automobile au-tomobile bug Is ono Johnson. Battling Nelson is so certain that ho will win his title of lightweight champion cham-pion of the world back from Addison Wolgast that ho is still using his old-time old-time visiting cards inscribed thusly: "Oscar Mutthew (Battling) Nelson. lightweight champion of the world, Ilcdgewlsch. III." "You see," said Bat, "I didn't destroy those cards after my tight with Wolgast, for I figured out that I would need thorn again. It wasn't economy that made me hold on to them but I had sort of a hunch that I could use them In the future." A match which may be pulled off has been arranged between Lew Powell, the California lightweight, and Champion Wolgast, to be pulled oft late In June. The bout is scheduled to go twenty-live rounds and will likely be held at Vernon, Cal., whero Powell beat Mcmslc In his last tight, Owen Mornn lias been training at Venice. Ven-ice. Cal., for his mill Tuesday night with Krankle Conley. .Jeff Perry ha3 been assisting tho English lightweight fighter to get In shape with Conley. jMoran Is using the same Irlng that Lew Powell used when he was preparing for Momslc. Stanley Kolcheli has one more fight In tho East; then ho will beat it for the Golden West. Ketchel will exchange wallops with Jack ."Twin" Sullivan of Cambridge, Mass.; for twelve rounds before be-fore tho Armory ;A. A. in Boston, Tuesday Tues-day night. They will box at catch-wclghts. catch-wclghts. This Is their second mooting, Ketchel having- knocked Sullivan out In e twentieth round at Colma, Cal., May I, two years ago. Charley White will adjudicate the affray! ' How It May Go. Much has been written about tho manner man-ner in which the Joflrles and Johnson light will be fought. It is admlttod that thero will bo a lot of Infighting: that Is cvidont. But will either of the me,n be able to get in lfl3!deadllcst wallop aCtho right time? The famous blows of famous fighters in recent' years; Including those of Jeff and Johnson, are: Jeffries Swinging left to the jaw. Jack Johnson Right arm iipnercilt and hook. Bob Fltzslmmons Uuff-orm jolts to stomach and Jaw dcllvoroJ at close quarters. quar-ters. Joe Gnns A snappy right hook. Battling Nelson Loft hand scissors punch over the liver. Jim Corboll Left hand jab and right across. 'Kid McCoy Tho ..nvlj-cnwuv ,lrllv,.rn,l -...III, a (ivlct nf flin wrist before landing. Jolm L. Sullivan Right hand swing to tl Jaw. Frank Erne Snappy loft-hand jib. Terry Mc-Govern Mc-Govern Overhand right land wallop to the Jaw. James J. Jeffries tvM )e just a year in making his tour of tho world after the big light. Although It S-ns announced that the tour -would bo made "win or lose" there Is an element of doubt in this. As the programme stands now Jeffries will jump acrois the United States giving exhibitions Mu the houses of the theatrical syndlcalo. "Under the management of II. H. Fra&e'o of Chicago, Jeff will sail from tho United States in September, opening up iriCork, Ireland. October 1. Following Corlathc show will be given In ,Limerlck, Dublin and Belfast. Bel-fast. Then Scotland anQ the provinces and a week's stand In London. Tho continent will ho covered taking in Calais, Cal-ais, Berlin, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, St. Petersburg, Munich, Rome and many other -cities. About Chrlstmqs time the party wll go to Capetown, South Africa. Then there will be a tour throughAus-. tralln. Now Zealand and Northern Africa. Jeff will do a lot of hunting In India, Australia and Africa. He is oxpectca, homo by the way of Asia and Is booked to arrive In San Francisco from Peking, China, July II. 1911. Aftor JofC was elovated to tho championship cham-pionship by defeating Corhott he made a foreign tour, giving sparring exhibitions. exhibi-tions. When ho camo back ho met Tom Sharkey. "Tom, I saw your old father in Iro-lund," Iro-lund," said Jeffries. "After looking mo over ho said he, thought I could whip anybody In tho world except you." "And ho was right, too," said Tom with emphasis, notwithstanding tho fact that Jeff has whipped him in the ring. "I'll toll you, Jeffries. I'm nevor beaten until I'm knocked so cold they'd plant mo under tho sod," Sharkey concluded. con-cluded. Some doubt has been felt all along whether Albert Kaufman, the blacksmith, wanted to meet Sam Langford. Kaufman Kauf-man has been finding fault and making objections until It is reported that ho has cold feet. |