Show NINE OUT OF EVERY EV RY TEN AMERICAN MEN LIKE TO T tj 1 SEE SQUARE PRIZE I t B But Allow the One One- OneT Tenth One T Minority to t the the Game They Love Be Best t Says Rex Beach B cp This Hunger for Individual Superiority L Led Ld LedMan d Man Up From the Jungle to PIe Present ent St State ef if j j ROOSEVELT WELCOMED ROYALLY BEC BECAUSE USE HE 1 IS A RED BLOODED FIGHTING FIGI IlUM N BEING Jeffries Has Come Back He Has Renewed His His' Youth Cheeks Are Sunken in But Its It's the Gauntness of 01 Vigorous Health and They Shine With Ruddy Color Colore Special service service copyright 1910 1010 b by George Georgo Matthew Adams Registered Res In ir 1 Canada AH AU rights re reserved Special to The Telegram BY BEX REX BEACH BENO RENO Nov July 1 Peaty I.-Peaty disco discovered ered eyed tho the Tex lex 10 earths earth's axis Rickard lo 10 located the center of ot tho the UI universe R Ronald I Amundsen found the spot where the thi S magnetic needle stands on Its head and am nd I fixed It as somewhere north of Canada but Tex Rickard proved ovi him In error I It remained for tor a year old min nith miner miner er or to demonstrate that Reno Beno Nov Nev I Is S not only the exact geographical focUsing focus Inot I- I sing of ot all nU things terrestrial hut also 0 the precise magnetic cent center r of ot tho the c ci civilized v. v lUred world I say civilized world word d designedly for whether you approve or disapprove C of ot prize fi fighting y yon yoi cannot annot r remain mai Ii within the hospitable table gates ates of this this' cit city y for an hour before you you are brought brou bt face fac C W o 4 face fm with the great t. t overwhelming elemental fact t that at mankind underneath h its veneer of civilization is primitive prim C and nd i ng born bop There Ther is no rio gainsay i s y In ing it You may mayock Jock yourself into a adark da dark k room or or a sawdust p Ti padded r J a c or in ji some other manner isolate yourself 1 from ext external rn I. I influences ril cs c's s' s and land b dint it of f calm dispassionate rca r reach neb i iL t. 10 iA 3 L unnatural brutal coarse Oaise insane an and nd a foolish beyo beyond d measure ure nor and so it would woul and d b be if r lived in refrigerators s end and tho the blood bloo of polar bears bear ran ra a Through its veins veins but man is n a warm ii blooded animal re roared reared r d in tho the sunlight t and he ho has hs not only an elemental by loyo ovo 0 of f life but a n. love lovo of vt vic victory tory and admiration of excellence I If f it wore not for traits haits like liko these h his groat eat too still be thumbs tand an and no he ho would now be swinging by his tail i in inthe i ithe the tho damp glades of fever ridden tropic swamps It was this spirit of individuality this hunger for conquest th this I desire desiro for individual e excellence tbs that I raised him to his stature and subdued subdue the earth to the sound of his voice Great Tribute t to a Fighter Tighter We Wo are here worshipers or every cry mothers mother's moth moti ers er's sun Bun of us personal superiority is our fetch Only yesterday we offered d such a 8 welcome as the world has never nevor IT known to a fighter fichter No Roman emperor em en i. i in the tho great epic days of end ol old d ever reviewed such a pageant of bon honor r ag as g Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt upon his bis r re return return a turn from Elba An armada met him hi rn nt at tho the threshold of his land Jand uncounted 1 thou thousands lined his route mute of march und and an a rent the air with such a crashing uproar Lx that tho the jealous heavens open opened cd wi wide Ic and let loose their warring elements element 10 to t drown it People will say that the Roosevelt It demonstration was planned to to celebrate o his conquests and this is true truo in in a n m meas measure as 8 urea mire but for every evory high h domed C. C t citizen who looked upon the central con cen a- a tm-al tm figure of that P pageant as a pres president i- i dent there were ten hoarse voiced bi big ig lunged sore mrs footed human beings w who 10 per perched hed upon ulon curb and window windon led lodge e I to o welcome Teddy as a n man Suppose William Howard Taft or Jol John in D. D Rockefeller or Chief Justice Fuller it i or Anthony Comstock had led lod a re regi regiment regi i ment meat up San Juan hill hilI had lambasted d dmm tho the trusts tied knots knots in hi the thc railroads railroad mm slaughtered African rhinos and electrified i fied Europe do you think New York Yot k kig Cit City would have gone gono ghost host dancing ig like a tribe of Sioux at his return f Do you think that Democrats and R Republicans Re Re- e- e publicans insurgents and Socialists eIs Is would have amalgamated into one gre great Areat it brotherhood of welcome givers Nm Not t fiO an that you could distinguish it There would have havo been a tug load of if asthmatic high batted leadin leading cit citizens i ns is at nt tho harbor mouth and a banquet or it two at 10 a plate the tho newspapers rs would have e a front page pao stor story to t the tho me good and tho time autograph raph hunters woul would Id t tha ha have o 0 mailed their respect Saxon Anglo Loves a Fighter No it was Roosevelt wo we admired It was Toddy Teddy tho the real vital red blooded d fi fighting human being whom we wc wol corned The Anglo Saxon Anglo Saxon loves Joves a u fi fight figh fighter ht tor t- t er or ere and wo we knew that our most pron prominent ki nent citizen wa was one of that sort ort I Ho likes a battle and ho he will give combat combi it at at nn any mark in in tho the road Ho lie will swap 3 wallops in the tho halls of the time senate or ti the gloomy depths of an African forest c on n tIme the rostrum of England's greatest un uni uni- Li or in the tho rope ropo squared rin ring Ho is is is a n regular human man nian and h his is country loves him for it Of Ol ill all tho those thore e fellows who slowly bak baked d their solos on Manhattans Manhattan's blistering a asphalt as ns s that day waiting for a 0 tight of Roosevelt tho the man the bj big voiced de ir nine tenths nine tenths are aro either on their the way to Rono Reno today or want ta tn torn ome it and the high hia-h domed bespectacled on ono one tenth who looked upon him a as a pros president LI- LI dent and law Jaw giver iver are raising the thet their Ir voices a against prize f fighting and anti pointing point t in ing tho the finger of scorn at N Nevada c 4 Wo We claim to bo be a nation ruled 4 by a majority Our civic spirit or 4 i 1 is rent and our democracy is 1 11 ii 1 goaded to fury at tho time mere mero sug- sug 4 0 Continued on page o 2 J AMERICANS ADMIRE RED BLOODED FIGHTING MEND MEN SAYS REX HEX BEACH REX BEACH SAYS Continued from pa page 1 t. that a hated minority d di t- t i holds the reins of ot government 4 r v and shapes our laws for its own ir 4 i r r protection yet prize fighting is i 4 v governed in Just that way i iThe Tho The submerged nine tenths nine tenths has allowed allowed al al- lowed owed itself to bo swamped and the voice oice of the one tenth one tenth has made i- i sm a felony in every state except Nc Nc- e ada vada adaI I do not think I exaggerate when 1 I Isay sa ay say that out of ever every cry ton ten normal healthy American male voters nine would lik like liko to see a good square prizefight prizefight prize fight and not only would d those nine like ike to witness tho the spectacle but put out ot of their number there thero would be five at least cast who nho would pawn their shirts forthe for the tho 10 price of f a ringside scat seat Why This Butting In I do not set myself up to say that hat these heso mon men arc ri right ht or wrong morally excellent or depraved but nevertheless the he percentage holds bolds It is not a theory it is a a 11 and acknowledging acknowledging edging that condition it has ever been beena a 11 mystery to mo why this sport of ot sports has been tabooed so generally generaU I It is a a a. kink that I ha have haxe e never nevor yet solved to my own satisfaction s on n. n Somo Some say women omen are behind it some say aj- aj ajit it is too the awakening of a higher moral sense Hense but woman has yet to to student stu stu- prove rove her political power and a dent ent of American morals tho latter explanation ex ex- is laughable l In I hold to the theory that men will win guard their rights by br blood y vet et t allow their heir ile privileges es to bo be curtailed without much of a struggle 4 5 If It the American man ever de do- 4 f t td d sides that it is his inalienable 4 44 4 r tight right and not a a. more moro privilege 4 to 4 v to amuse and relax himself as asi i 4 d he sees fit so long as he te does not r rr r t interfere with the liberty of or his ojo r r v fellow man min we will have prize d di i i fights Sunday theatres and i id d horse horS racing h Abuses are possible in all things ot of course One can can drink enough wat water r to o kill himself aud and I have ha heard beard of at a woman who lau laughed herself to death at ata a circus but why shoot a clog because he le has fleas f One Ono is brought face to face faco ace with this condition of affairs wh when n ho bo 10 steps step foot in Reno Back Rack Washington in Wa in-Wa hiD on D. D C C. they are making makin history From Wall gall street treet comes ho tho plaintive bleat of lambs and an ancho echo cho of the tho old old struggle e 6 bull and bear England faces an making epoch political gr rN things are arc happening at t various places over or tho the world but butin in Reno Nev all thin things 5 are arc dwarfed in comparison with the ho Johnson Johnson-Jeffries Jeffries struggle The air airs airis is 18 s surcharged with it wo we hear tho the tram tramp ramp of approaching thousands we wo we are arc I obsessed b by the magnitude of this corning com corn com iD ng ing clash we wo sec see wo we hear we talk nothing else Millions Are AIe Interested M Monday words word went out from here b re over the tho wires and tho the fight was a we week k awa away The Tho fall of Port Arthur did not take taka quarter one that number of words to tell and over every day it is bo tho same from irom now on until tho the time timo of the battle tho daily number will in in- crease In other words two novels no are written every o twenty four ho hours rs dealing deal In log ing entirely with the of individual individual in in- superiority rity 11 when hen it is realized realized real real- that of those words at least are relayed through h dozens of syndicates to countless newspaper of or offices tices in tho the United States Canada and foreign n countries and that those offices in turn print papers by the tho myriad which are read b by an average or two t-o or three persons to each copy COP it is possible pos pea sible blo to grasp asp something of the enormity onor enor mit mity of oft tho ho publics public's interest in the coming coming com com- ing event vent It means that every day more marc print printed i matter bearing on the Johnson Johnson-Jeffries prize fight tight is written printed distributed rind and read than most book lovers ers have havo in their entire libraries libra libra- ries riCH In San Francisco one paper has taken takena a II huge h arena whore where the public can gather gath er cr on July 4 d and hear the he news of the tho thoI I fight fi ht as it comes conies sizzling over the wires from Crom the rin ringside r Nothing Ic less s than a a calamity like that which razed the tho city four our years ago can keep tho the people out At other othor places actual contestants will ill reproduce tho the blows 8 and counters that tbd are occurring in the mountain fastness I of ot Nevada Nc Jn In every eVen city of an any conse conse- consequence quence bulletins w will trill ll bo be flashed hashed over o the heads of ot yelling multitudes Streets from rom or to Seattle from Edmonton to Key hey West est ct will echo to the t clack of or presses and tho the cries of new boys bos bo's an and yet prize 6 lighting fighting is tabooed What does docs it mean meant t What conclusions sloes docs it all lead to 10 In the abstract it itis itis itis is is J am amusing ing in the concrete it is intensely intense intense- ly Iy interesting an and leads to strange philosophizing Oh for a Bath The stage c setting for this contradictor contradictory tor tory drama is also interesting as are arc the characters So many tons of paper have been used in describing the twin stars of this marking century show that tho the newcomer dashes headlong to tho the and training camps upon his arrival whoa when ho he returns ho bo knows no more than when he be went lie llo realizes that all has been said that lan language ua c is capable of f sain saying and anel yet ct he be feels within hUn hint him th tho thi desire to say more to chronicle th the many impressions that are nrc too transitory transitory transi transi- tory and meaningless less to reduce to words words' or or letters One ODe has rushed across the tho continent through a stifling heat and smother of ot dust that sifts not only through h his cloth clothes 8 but on into the inmost recesses of his soul and finall finally rolls roUs out through h tho the bleak powder powder sagebrush hills into tho the smiling valley where Reno nestles he be cherishes the thc vision of a cool bath and clean linen Vain There Thero are no baths left in Reno He will not even oven find a laundryman in in town towns if the word has gone one forth that Jeffries is is to spar that day Do not reserve reser Ii a room Toom in Anco ad wire on for fora a bath A dozen grimy rimy scribes will furnish you ou a room if you Jou will let them feast their eyes cs upon a tub From a a. at group roup of Chicago o came a wire ire the tho other day written undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un by one welt weir versed in the waya wa of the west It read Tead U Reserve a alot alot lot ot of baths and a room Th They y ha have been assigned to Renos Reno's Ono one and nd only Turkish bathhouse which ha has a plunge e and not until they have arrived will they know how favored of mortals the thc they are Alkali Dust Agreeable I had no sooner reached ja a hotel ron Mon Monday fonday day morning than I was advised advise that my uy arrival had been timed to the ps ay- ay second J Jeffries was wag about to o work Quick into this automobile JJ a n fellow fel fel- low ow chronicler advised dvis me n o with no ct- ct forto ort fort to conceal his excitement Gee Gee youre you're in in luck But But I want Yant to change chango my mv clothes said I I III am so full of cin cinders Jers it sets teeth my on edge What about abou the cind cinder r inquired and eavesdropper pcr boldly cd edging i his way toward oward ard IB lR Is Johnson us going going- to spar this his morning f my friend drew me tits aside Dont Don't bother to change t now we just got ot th the tip from Corbett Just Just a collar JJ I pleaded Il it it wont won't take tako ako but a mim minute te JJ Look here hero JJ said ho ho I I havo have been in n Reno for a week and arid haven't had hada hadl a l peek reck at Jeffries yet I r ou out to Moana Springs rings three throe times a day until alkali dust is like talcum powder in in n my nostrils nostril and I 1 haven't seen scon him put on a a. mitt Ho has the disposition of ofa a a. a tarantula He has got ot of a diabolical gift of second sight night He HO can smell a spectator for a mile and he seems to know when ho wont won't bo be there You come corne So I went and I Iwas was very glad Iad for 1 saw sn that which I never expect expected cd to see I a man who has come colic back Jim Jini Jeffries has renewed his hie youth De Soto 8 to should Id havo bavo h gone gono g n west in his s search for lor that fabled fountain the tho waters of which ho he believed od could rollback roll rollbacK rollback back the years from human shoulders He |