| Show When Wh n Great Boxing Boxing- Fighter Faces Dusky Dusy Dusky Dus Dus- ky y Fighting Fighting Boxer Each Will be Facing Facing Facing Fac Fac- ing Most Dangerous Danger Danger- ous Man He Has Ever Met Great Battle Rattle j Copyright right 1310 by tho the New York Yoi Her Herald aid ald company Registered In Canada in accordance with the tho copyright act All AU rights reserved Special aJ to The Telegram BY JACK OK LONDON RENO Nov Nev J July ly 2 1 I I am glad Im I'm here bere There was nover never nover anything like liko I this b s Reno at the present nt moment with witt the tho great impending moment only three lays days away I should hate bate like liko poison if some Borner Croesus should hould offer to pay me meto to stay a away way from tho the light fight telling me meto meto meto to fix my own Price r theft b t is' is 8 iv m ncy Wo I p way from the fi ht but o r th ato-th amount f e f ti lin ot b Croesus Croesus' all that I am afraid of ot now is is that Ili iii Ill I'll bo PO run over by a n Beno Reno electric car r and miss the fight However when I consider the Reno street car I take heart of courage and think I still have havea haven a n fair chance Seriously no o man who loves th the e has the tho and is fighting game Rame price within striking distance of Reno Ren i should miss miss the fight Viewed from every pos pos- sillo anglo angle there thore has bu nover never been beon nn anything anything any any- thing like liko it in the history of the ring and there is no chance for anything like liko it to occur in the future futuro at least within the lifetime of those alivo today Even Evon if no moro more le legislation IS ia passed against tho tIm game even if every state threw itself wide open to prize prizefighting prizefighting fi fighting still there can be nothing like this fight fi ht for a generation to come como Never Such a a Fair Before in Jn the the first place never nevor have bave two men like these over faced each other in inthe int inthe t the e rin ring In all nIl th the contests of t its long lone history no two comparable giants have over ever locked in combat and in their own OWE generation thero there is no no third man who approaches approach os them It has taken not only a generation bu but two races to produce e them John Johnson on is a dusky wonder For his bis size there thero has nover never been boon so 80 clover clever a defensive boxer Nor has there over been fio so cool headed a n boxer This ThiB coolness coolness cool cool- ness nells of his is is one of ot his most most niost remarkable remark remarkable able attributes So cool is is ho that his fi fighting at tunes times seems ms lackadaisical while at the same timo time it never nevor has tho seeming of if brutality In action there thoro is ill very verr little hint of f the fi fighting beast boast about him There are hints of it true when sudden sud sudS den fierce moments come upon him and his face and force mo But it is not genuine Ho simulates i it it He Heis Heis Heis is a n play actor deliberately playing a part He is not mastered by this tiger tiger- H He 0 is m manufacturing it it- Back in in that cool brain of his ho he decides ho he nee needs s this display of of in hi his business and so ho he displays it Another of hi bill hia remarkable at attributes is an instinct for a blow that is is positive genius Locked in a clinch body ro- ro his mind elsewhere his gaze fixed on someone off to tho the sido and outside of the ring and talking to that outsider out eider sider r say Bay about the the be disposition of ot contents con tents fonts of a contain certain suit case at such a moment his bis opponent starts a blow for his jaw jawAnd and he without seeing or Dr gaug u ing or hinkin by some automatic des des' knows aU all about that blow its force SWOOP sweep and anel direction Johnson a Type Himself Ho He merely morely r rolls his head bead or pulls it back just far enough h and not a fraction frac tion of f an inch farther and all nil the tho while without a 8 break keeps up his conversation about the contents of or that suit Buit case case- A wonderful fighter indeed unlike other othor u IK is Johnson utterly any fi fighter a typo b by himself And a against this man will win stand Jeffries Jet Jef fries an nn even oven more remarkable man a ariZZI grizzly riZZI giant ho huge e and and ru rugged ed of a n typo wo we are arc prone to believe behave was was was' morn more common in other days when whon the tho world was youn young And despite hi his bu hugeness and and he is I so BO well proportioned proper from head to heel that the tho combination com corn is itS startling His is a perfection tion of symmetry that is tho the fruit of tho the highest or organic nic development And ADd if science tells tolls aright bt we aro justified in believing that no such loch symmetry sym metry obtained amon among those giants triant of tho the younger world The Tho human in those days was in the tho process p c s of becoming It was wall muscular efficiency minus beauty of ot form and lino line This big modern Jim Jeffries has both So Bo far tar as ns the time boxing game is con con- corned the tho contest next Monday is W well ll named H the the fight of tho the century These two men in a class clara by themselves themselves them them- selves so 80 far as other fi fighters go Jo yet yot 50 60 son radically different from each flach other othor as to havo have practically no salient characteristics char in common will nil fight a Ill bat bat- tie in a R netting ettin like unto nothing the tho thorin rin ring has hils even displayed Six Heavy Weight Champions For the fir first t timo time two undefeated heavy weight champions battle and each goes toes up against the most dan dangerous danger danger- cr I ous out and formidable man ho has bas ever tackled And they will fi fight ht in tho presence of ot four tour other other and earlier heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavyweight weight champions A Again in aro arc all tho tIme records broken brokon for lor next Monday in in tho the ring and tho the arena will bo be six men mon who have havo hold held the honor of being world champion heavy weights weight Think of it Sullivan Fitzsimmons Burns J Jeffries Joffries Johnson From tho the standpoint of ot tho the sporting Continued on page pago 16 t l r R REX X BEACH SAYS Continued from pa page o 1 the literary style of a Joe Too or HII Rn A Abe Abc be Attell hut but ho has bas a certain following fol fo- lowing owin nevertheless no And Anti Battling Henry Honry James Tames the tho Devonshire demon Why did not Bomo Bom enterprising editor commission him nun him to write the story of this His die die- I tion is stilted stilLed perhaps and lacking in in the tho fluent case and grace race of Philadel Philadelphia phia phiLL lack OBrien Hut But ho bo is is ii entitled tp to be 10 beard heard It is s to lo fay ny tho the least for us fa fagged ed out authors who vho nurn thoI tho I midnight in 1 a ceaseless s sorI eor- eor did effort to make wolf poison and forestall fore fore- i I I stall all the tho landlord when we wo realize that wo we have c missed tho the short cut to fame and glory ory ro To tho youthful aRpir aspirant for literary honors T r 1 recommend road rond roadwork roadwork work and dumbbells instead of rhetoric and En English the I h the doeskin glove o lovo in place of tho binding And should the tho climb to Mount Parnassus Par Par- oem lon long lone and rind arduous lot him find comfort in tho the meditation that oven even Tom rom Sharkey was wac once a sailor Another Champion Too But I do not wish to ivo tho impression sion that Bono Reno in lii purely a 1 literary cen cent tor ter Far from it Tho sweet and gentle gen sen tIe tle art an of harmony is represented hero Tho The realm of music music has sent sont a 8 representative to the fight in the person of ot tho the worlds world's champion marathon piano player who boasts of havin having teased tensed melody from a piano for sixty one consecutive consecutive con con- s hours without leaving And in addition to these men mon of prominence an arm army of is la s rapidly rap idly gathering They come Gripping forth from Pullmans day coaches coaches and aDd smokers They como come tumbling from flat fiat topped box cars or creeping forth from between the trucks their faces black with dust their bodies scarred by bytho the print of brake beams brams They Thoy are coming from England Enslund and Hawaii from Austra Ha Jia and Alaska in special trains and cc side sido door sleepers r But Dut whether they chance chanco to 0 j 4 1 t. be globe obe trotters or grangers an ors J hobos bobos gentlemen gentle gentle- oJ 4 home homo bodies or th they aro all nil red rod v vI 5 men or grafters y I i. i blooded ed full fashioned men with v r i the ago old primitive love of r rJ 4 J- J fighting fi in their veins veins There Thoro v 4 fr are no mollycoddles mollycoddle in in Reno Renol h t. l- l this night No Weaklings There Tho The eve of the tho greatest battle of tho the country countr finds this little frontier city packed and jammed by un an eager optimistic healthy breed of ot men mon who on Monday will file out 1 through h the heat and glare and dust to a groat great unpainted open open air arena arena there to offer otter homage homa o oon on the tho altar of individual excellence next Monday londay t. l lAnd JAnd J- J And should i prove that their country was iu in in v vJ r i J peril and in in need of them to toI I 4 J safeguard her honor hODor these samo sarno r x 1 mon would go so forth willingly r ri i- i gaily aU to do her service oven at the cost of blood It was men like these and like liko their less lees 1 i r fortunate brothers who wh will follow fol- fol v low tho the fight story as It ft comes come v vI i I- I flashing over the tho wires who v vJ i. i J opened their reini at or J 1 TV cut roaring Iown down to death and v i. i glory Clory across tho the fields of Got Got- r ri i i These are arc the tho men inca our forefathers bred brod in tho the wilderness These aro are the themen themen themen men who mako nations In Tn Rono tonight to ni night ht there thero are ure few weaklings Why Thoy They Aro Arc Fighting righting Now that we wo have seen something of what this battle means to U the tho American man nan let lct us 18 look Jook for an instant at what it Jt 8 signifies to the contestants I am ani informed that instead of fighting for a 8 purse of or as previously pre an an- Bounced there will be offered at the ringside a bonus of to each participant participant par par- in iii addition to tho ori original inal sum HUID With 7 75 per Jer cent of thor the purse as the tha winners winner's share haro and 2 25 j per cent for tho the losers loser's portion hero bore i is is- what victory will moan in in cold dollars and cents To Jeffries it will ivill mean purse ursa urso mO money and bonus which added to tho the sum for which winch ho has hassold hassold sold his interest in the tho pictures will bring him a total of 15 if ho bo proves a better betterman mat In that case caso Johnson who sold his picture rights for will reci receive in 10 addition to that sum a at as his bie share of the tho purse plus bonus or a total of oC 50 Rather a substantial and soul easing casing balm to a defeated warrior particularly inasmuch as he like Jeffries J ha has haM al already ul- ul ready made the cost of his training ex cx- expenses peD CS from front preliminary exhibitions I On the other hand should the Texas assassin sassin overwhelm hi his antagonist he lie will net the tidy sum of 1 while tho Redwood giant will be bo forced to content himself with a meager Di Different from Buccan Buccaneers ers Great figures truly Sir Henry Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- or gan an and his buccaneers sack sacked d the city of Panama and laid waste the scat seat of Spanish culture in Now New Granada for lor a Do sum scarcely greater In those days davs a gentle and nd peace loving people ere were driven into ino bondage an oceans of blood were spilt in the name Dame of the tho I church and his Catholic majesty the tho ji Jung 1 of Spain Today loday the church b and aud tho the clergy Inveigh against the Rena battle where a descendant of slaves a it man freed from a a. a raco race of barden b bearers ar r will ill stand tand forth as the equal of his white brother and where less lebs ebs than thana a a pint a-pint pint not of ot gore Jore will flow 1 It seems to me that all this clamor against prize fighting uriS arises s a aba ba basic ie misapprehension nus of or the tho Natives motives that raised td toe the sport to prominence I Tho Those 6 who as assail il it on the tho I 4 1 grounds of brutality and bestial 4 i- i i depravity assume a false prom prom- Jise J- J 1 ise Ille in in 10 their reasoning People Popple e t I tb do 10 not attend boxing e. e exhibitions t I from fron a R. R gross ose Roman floman man dt desire iro to th r see physical punishment in inflict inflict- I. 1 i cd ed cd or to glory lory at tho painful iraI ira ira- 1 I i pact of padded glove Io c on naked naki l 0 flesh In rn describing a n contest of or this sort bort once before 1 called attention to the tho fa fact t that it was not the effect o of the tho blo blows s 's that tha brought forth tho hoarse voiced roar from tho multitude but Jut the tho skill and cunning behind it Tho 1110 superlative n mastery aster of an intricate science requiring more daring more courage more moro brilliance t h ln that of any rnY other sport r Tho The flower floer of ot our nation will ap up plaud a as 3 assou sou on or brothers brother's portion in 10 some omo gridiron maneuver that may isny chance to fo leave ca c in in it its wako wake a n writhing athlete not tb not not out of cruelty nor from frem any desire to gloat upon misery but mitson bul from froni pure admiration of tho thu game gamo anie We Wc e even have a president who loves lc to stand upon the tho aide fido lino line These samo same people will cheer at a t display i of baseball brilliance oven I 1 t though 1 ii runner i spikes a baseman or Ir fl sprains I his bis ankle in sliding for tb the plate College Collego professors ors will kint kang over o a che chess board s board at nt some lomo clash be be- cen celebrities working themselves into uto a gentle enthusiastic e 1 in iii follo following l S the tho bour hourly moves mo But it is not the chagrin or tho the mental anguish of tho the vanquished champion that ciu ClU f s them t to applaud ppl ud the checkmate kmat And o it is 18 with boxing or or prize fight fight- Jn lug if YO you I choose hoo o to call it by Ly that brutalizing brut brit title At Training Camp camp Tim Tho other day I sat am amid tl GOO CO men Inca women and rind children at ut Jeffries Jeffrie outdoor o training platform while he lie boxed They rh were wro average people itO come tl to In see ace and 1111 admire tho the last Jat HulI thing in In bodily perfection aud and although 11 f f- f r j f. f H t. t Rt y tl t a i. i t. t t f l Reno Nev I 1 t. t t- t 5 t f f 1 4 v. v 4 i t j I It i I t t H tf Ij S 0 j y h t 4 1 ii J I z- z i p a J fl tl c l T a Ht 4 1 t 3 i I A A P Ri sc l 7 to 1 d' d t. t i r fiz 4 i S L I I t 1 j r i. 1 c f t a Pie t I r. r it r rJ rl r. r R H n lR i J N c- c l C J I 1 t t f tt i t ii rf J r W O f i 1 Ct I r fl i fJ 1 i E J I J 1 f H i. i ih f wW 1 1 i r 1 T l rY t n tl 1 j 1 l' l ut i A ft Jj t 1 t 4 r. r V j J ff r. 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