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Show JEFFRIES SUCKS ' I TI CALIFORNIA I Says Contest Must Be Held in H His Home State or Not H GRAXEY" COMES BACK H 5 WITH SOLAR PLEXUS Stands by Rickard, Saying -H Neva dan Can Stage Fight H iu Salt Lake. H f "WHAT EDDIE GHANEY SAYS. 'h Special to The Tribune X T SAN". FKANCISCO. Jan. 17. On 4- i- Decern hm- iimvl n 1 1,,1 i ..i n ... IHH f hoken. Tom MeCarcy .shook hands -f with Tex Rickard and wished Rick- y art luck, -and McCarey asked Rick-y Rick-y aid whore he Intended to hold the ! v contest as he, McCarey, wanted to -J. v U;mB -'i special train" to the contest y Rickard replied thai he Intended to v r have It In Salt JL.-ke. Thosw present -J- In tho crowd, and that should have f heard it. were Jack Glcasou. Bob r Murray. George Little, Van Loan. t Colonel Kowalsky, Ma'.iricc Quiiilan. -r j myself and several newvpaper mun. f Glen sun said anything Rickard said -j y went with him. Eddie Graney. : Special to The Tribune. LINCOLN. Neb., Jan. 17. "There is not even as much as an outside chance that I'll fight any place but in Callfor-nia," Callfor-nia," declared James J. Jeffries, who ex-hibltcd ex-hibltcd in Lincoln tonight before a crowded theater. "Just tell Governor Spry," Jclt con-Linucd, con-Linucd, "Dial he is doing me a favor when he says Johnson and 1 can't pull off our mill in Salt Lake, or in Utah. He won:t need to get any militia after mo next July I, Tor I won't be there. California Is my home state: that's thu place where I'm going to tight Johnson, and Governor Sprj- can rest easy and keep his soldiers at home. Il "This light is going to draw a lot of IH people from all over the country, and lake it from me that California, the state where 1 live, is going to get the benctil. I don't care wlfether or riot Tex Rickard has said the things ho Is cred-Ited cred-Ited with in the newspapcra, about fighting iu Salt Lake. Just put it IH down ror keeps that Jefl" is going to tight Johnson in California and that 1 am going to lick him quick." Sam Bei-gcr, Jeffiies's manager, talked In a. simihir .strain. "It would be ah-surd." ah-surd." said Bercer, "to think of hooking this tight, the biggest .In the. history of puglllsin. for Utah, when the governor has forbidden iu Jeff can't afford to run any risks of Interference. No. I shan't say anything concerning any dlf-fcrcuc.es dlf-fcrcuc.es between Rickard ami Gleason. If there Is any controversy between them ihey will have to taku care of it themselves." |