Show I JEffRIES TO STEP Sift STEPON SiftON ON JOHNSONS JOHNSON'S TO TOE AND SEND IN Champion Has a Clever Scheme to Beat Negros Negro's Foot WorK ST. ST PAUL Minn 1 Jan I 1 Jim Jeffries has baa figured out a plan which in his opinion ion ion will bring home the bacon when he ho faces Jack Jacl Johnson in the ring next hext of July There has been so mu much h talk talle o of how the two fighters are to go at each other that no one has any idea what Isto isto Is ts to happen but this latest scheme of at Jeffs Jeff's is not so bad While in Boston recently Jeff Confided to one of the newspaper men and declared in all earnestness that this battle battlo is to tobe tobe tobe be his last fight light and his last victory The big one is positive he can whip the stuffing stuffing stuffing fing out of the negro and simply laughs Never Beaten One when some one hints that Johnsons Johnson's cleverness cleverness clev clev- erness and foot work vork ork will puzzle him Jeff insists that the negro has never beaten a first class fighter The only man who ever had a reputation and went down before Johnson was Bob FItzsimmons who was knocked out In two rounds on July 17 1907 1901 at Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia and at that time the Cornishman Cornish- Cornish man had really cashed in his checks as asa asa asa a fighter When the Boston scribe hinted that the negro Is clever on his feet Jeff declared declared de de- de- de dared When I enter the ring next of July I shall b be fit and ready for my last battle batUe and my last victory When that black man stands up and tries footwork footwork footwork foot foot- work Ill I'll wade in In stand on his big black feet and break his back Its It's tiresome to tc hear so much talk about his speed and my Toy slowness If my punches cant can't slow him up I lose my guess He Leans Back Johnson in most of his late fights fi has shown a tendency to force the other fel fellow low to do all the leading lIe He has leaned back and waited until he ho got a chance to shoot In that long left leCt or lay all over his opponent and hammer at the kidneys ys until he wore his man down Its It's almost a cinch that the negro will not employ these same tactics with Jef Jef- fries In the first place Jeff Is a bIggerman bigger biggerman biggerman man in all ways lie He stands over an anInch aninch I Inch taller Is heavier and will not give the colored champion a a. chance to get I that close Johnson has not shown anything wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- in the line of footwork In any of his battles In the fir first t place he is rather flat fiat footed and any man who cant can't get up on his toes and dance around nimbly is pretty badly handicapped Jeff Is Light I Jeffries on the other hand Is as light lighton on his feet as a child lie He has been using the Jumping rope in his light training work ever since he decided to come back bacle and take a chance at the negro and he has found that none of his old time cleverness clev cleve erness on his feet has left him hirn If Jeff can plant one of his gunboats on top of one of Johnsons Johnson's pedal extremIties extremities extremities long enough to hold the dark One down there Is danger that he will carry carryout carryout carryout out his threat to break the colored mans man's mansback mansback mansback back as he says sas he will do |