Show AN DECLARES DET ILS PECULIAR NEW YORK May l A A long interview interview inter view view with John L. L Sullivan was given Riven out here today in which the former champion answers tho question H Do Do you ou think the Johnson Jeffries fight is going to be bo on the level f fHe He says Bays There are somo some things about the tho affair that sound peculiar but there wont won't be he anything wron wrong when the tho men pet get et into the rin ring Both Botn Bothof of them are aro going to fight to win win and ana that that's a all there is to it The only incidents that seemed peculiar peculiar pe pe- pe culiar were in the preliminaries There was a good deal of secrecy at that time about things that the public felt that it was entitled to know The Tho public pays for the thing and there must be bo criticism of course when tho the public iske is ke kept t in tho the dark Say I Say for instance Tex Rickard has put up for the fight Simply as ns an example it has been proven pro it was only Do you think for an instant Rickard or any ono one else w will ll mako make this loss good t Certainly not If H the public does not pay par no one will willand willand and the tho public should not be compelled to pay for something that it knows nothing of II I I 11 mean frankly that the tho purse will wiIl go as it has been secretly arranged to go The men are arc not fighting for glory as they did years ears ago aJo They aro are after the money and the they have arranged amon among themselves noW how tho the proceeds shall shaH be bo divided Perhaps this is none of the business of tho the public because thc they will see the fight the they pay to o osee see but I believe e the pub public ic should have been let in on ou the details at tho the I outset |