Show ack Johnson JohnsonI I I is In Salt Lake Jack Johnson champion heavy beavy weight pugilist of the world is here here Towering 1 head and shoulders above tho those e who went to tho the depot an and ded ded around him as he alighted from tho the Los Angeles Limited last wended his way ay with much difficulty to an automobile In waiting r ras as taken rapidly uptown line ne he very first words which escaped the colored champions champion's mouth as reached the city were wore Oh Oh my I look at those wide streets And Just it It I sent Bent my automobile on to Oakland Upon pon his arrival downtown his first suggestion was to deliver Mrs JohnI John John- j I his white wife to the hotel His next move was an attempt to make wa way wai to to TIlE THE TELEGRAM office but here a crowd of several hundred pIe ople had gathered and it was almost useless to attempt reaching the in- in the building from the Main street entrance Black slack BUy Bily Ryan Eyan and some somo of the other thoughtful ones who iJ in tow however grasped the tho situation and after spiriting the i curiosity around the back way managed to lead him into THE TELEAN TEL- TEL RAM EAM office on heaved a si sigh h of relief as u ulet let settled led down in ID a chair arid to bor- bor tr from m the vernacular of one of those lIe He may not be as IllS bi big as riM but he be is not a mid midget et The who is in Salt Lake today j pounds according to fa own figures res He lie is tall rangy and andI 1 I proportioned mol mog g the first questions thrown at iwas r 8 Well VelI Jack how do you 1 ook ok pretty good dont don't I It 17 I Iala Iam ala tho the champion long distance r r f f the country if that is an any any- 1 o jud judge 0 by bv I T had two chic chick chick- orf e limited Limited before getting in lb t they were small ones ones con con con- g n absorbing topic of discussion COUrsO was the proposed d Jeffries- Jeffries ason ison light fight When asked about the peels For or such auch a fight Johnson jink I ha have e convinced tho the people ILam ready but candidly I do not eve that Jeffries has any intention ii fighting me inc If you lad had a chance chanco cake nake a good sized piece of money had ad any intention of taking ad van Lof the opportunity wouldn't you p pone e a pleasure trip for twenty-four twenty rl n order to get it itT it Well I begged Jeffries to remain in York ork twelve hours longer so I dr dg get t down do from Toronto but no for Europe That doesn't dike business does it itt garding tho the rumor that Jeffries demand for his end win vin tp tO K draw and also the tho talk that lEon ison had bad permitted himself to fall when bo ho signed articles with IB Berger r or Johnson expressed himself allows C nt say that J Jeffries will ded de- de d that mu much b money as I have havo heard al nm indirectly but there will be Johnson to consider before he hel l hat bat lIe He cant can't draw anything outline you know We will draw money than any two fighters in world and ho will not get yet all of it IL d dont nt you think that I have tied the 8 agreement with Mr Ber Ber- Jeffries' Jeffries manager I have been I ig articles for sixteen years and out i n Jack Jalk Johnson they y to it Dont Don't you think that Shad bad studied one th thing n for sixteen HOu ou oti would know something about Well 1 just st so with Jack Johnson lit pt comes to signing i nin articles of meat ment hope will soon goon give us t thing n definite and I also alRo hope that n ford dots dors not beat Stanley h hel l. l Now that may sound funny but it means nickels nickel out of my Wf f he does doeR I am going OID to meet hel he and I don dont don't t want him plucked I. I lell I cnn can get et to him It will be a I think want Kethel first and then Jef Jef- I will fight Jeffries just as I Ia a ways a fought ht It Its It's s 's better to th them m say won won in the nineteenth knocked out in in the ninth isn't neon was al asked during the course of ot on an as to why he has never littered more decisive defeats to tom tomen tomen m men n as Jeanette Jeanotte Langford and sty sty- they Ither th fighter am un an every day horse replied on I am not the kind of ot horse goes foes out and breaks a a. record today lh n never nover wins all season I am any old weather weather fight out even hen hp pull away a at t the stretch Isn't tl the tt o. o kind of a horse you OU bet your Surety Sure Icy ley are all good fighters though l that My game Kaml lisa has been sand salami the championship I have ed 54 both 0 for five v years years years-to to Germany e ails alia a London 3 n Ireland ri I Italy I and all au i ito America I have it ut now and I 1 am to anybody nb J ou not afraid that you and Jef- Jef wul lIl hook up the first time you ou ever over Ii In II IIa a free for all' all someone asked o. o there e Is not much danger r Wo We not Inot r rg g get any On money for that could 0 Blister Jet Jeffries arid anti Mister Johnson d do more business In ten minutes than e could In t ton tn o and that h hIn I wanted to met meet him face to In ind 1 back to ba bark k sign articles w the e people something t hl definite at atIt It Itam m happy Oth though j Why h shouldn't id n This Thia town lown 10 looks kl good to mo me moba ba people treat r mo me right c PJ t been e treated a badly d anywhere re ren U. U n some of the towns the of or the peR peace CO have havo seen pinch me for tor speeding with my mythis Ii 1 this talk about running over bosh though Up In Canada Used sed me of running over some Home b that was Tommy Burns' Burns homo en ion someone asked him Dont Don't Ink Ik you OU ought to he be ashamed of ot f for claiming the tho championship by beating sm-h sm a man ns as S Tommy now there Is ts where you are Arc nil Tommy Tomm Burns went Int to Europe and nd beat them all didn't he That's more than any other American ever v r rInK did te Just s then someone called e up the sportIng sportIng sport sport- Ing InK editor to inquire the birthplace of ot Robert FItzsimmons Cornwall Cornwall shouted Johnson Now there is the old olli boy who was the daddy gd of them all tie lie e could hit some Old Bob m ns Johnson then went on and said many kind n of things O of Ruby Robert o and plainly plainly plain plain- hg lr eR 1 ah ly showed that t tO he had a a soft spot in his heart for Fits All thos thoai who have met and talked to Johnson since his arrival In Salt Lake i City have become Impressed with his unusual un un- usual size and perfect proportions Tho The biggest arm In the business business' said Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son when someone felt of ot his bIceps bleeps He is 13 not one-half one the swelled up coon Mat some o of the sporting writers have pictured him however howe and he is not keen on the bragging In his own behalf Johnson Is In the city under the management management man man- ment of ot Harry of ot the Salt Palace saucer who has staged an exhibition tion for the champion h t there tomorrow night I Johnson will WI WIx box x several rounds d' d with a local ocal man and Heagren promises the fans a clean athletic program |