Show 1 NO MO MOLLYCODDLES l NOR WEAKLINGS IN 11 1 SAYS SAY'S BEACH RENO REO i Big Crowds Rush ng to Nevada Prove Pugilism Too Greata Grear-a Sport to Die Declares N Novelist t. t k Skill Cunning and Muscular Development Adm Admired Admed fred Not Brutality Game Misunderstood d TOOK A GENERATION NAND AND TWO RACES RAGES TO PRODUCE Jl JEFFRIES AND J JOHNSON I I I Peace Pe ce Privacy and Quiet a at Jeffries Jeffries' Training Camp and nt Cottage While W bil e eThere i There Is ISa a Regular Bedlam of o Fierce e N Noises Noise at Negro Negro's Qu Quarters rt r T Special lc c Copyright by George Matthew V Adams Adans Registered in in Canada nil all rights Special to The Telegram Tole gram BY BEX REX B BEACH CH J RENO N Nev Nv v. v July 2 In In m my story stony yest yesterday ria I dwelt at length upon tho tremendous public 1 interest r t displayed cd tn So n the thc coming omi g g bat battle batti lo The longer r one t re remains re- re mains in Reno Rena t the tiie e gr greater r 1 becomes cO cs his his' wonder r at it Th Thai l this is ls exp expected ct d to tobe io v be the lB t si i hei t ie ii f i bi X 4 iV j j.- j. i Ki lr th I t u T- T V- V y rr n j fJ M coarse course the fact that It It bids ids ids' 1 fair to be the last re real l cha championship battle most ost of us will live UYe to to see but back of ot this there is eat r deeper curiosity on th the put part of of- the public In ord order r to satisfy this there then is isa a veritable arrn army of correspondents correspond correspond- l hero and more arc are comin coming by every overy train Tex Rickard told t ld me nie that he has received more than requests for press pres seats scats and anel while not all o of these men inca intend to write about the battle battIe most of them do and tho number num nurn- ber of scribes who will HI here bert hereon berton on Monday in the the tho interests of of tho the tho American roa reader er will be greater than reported the tho Japanese Russo-Japanese war ar or r tho thu last Republican fJon convention And what a 1 gathering it is Not even at the tho famous banquet tendered to tho the Into Mark Twain on his seventieth birthday when tho the literary array army of the tho world moved down to Delmonico's in solid phalanx has thoro thorn b been en gathered such a glittering array of talent nt as in Reno today At that time it was my privilege to bo ho present in lii nn an obscure way and from a hidden corner to peer forth with awe distended eyes CYCH upon the scintillating galaxy of brains as as- But in Reno today my obscurity ob ob- ob is ton ten times greater reater I am overwhelmed and rind blotted out by the brilliant glare that sur Bur rounds me Reputations of such high high- stepping blue ribbon authors as Alfred Henry Lew Lewis l and Jack London who are hero to do their modest best at 10 cents a word vord and traveling expenses art are lost utterly in the shadow of such stich celebrities celebrities celebrities ties ns DR John John- L L. Sullivan the dean of American letters Descendant of Bobbie Bobble Every literary heavy weight in tho the world will win be here cre including Tommy Burns Burn late of ot Australia For tho benti bene benefit fit of a group roup oi of oi newspapers Mr lr Burns Burns' has traced his hii back t topless f ss famous famous fa fa- fa but well wall advertised ud Scotchman of 10 letters ten by bv the same sam name Tommy did lid not need to lo bo boost st at his reputation as nl a litterateur by such such sucha a subterfuge OB as any all editor wo would tako his account of ot the tho fight on its its' own inherent inherent in in- herent merits as well as on the tho reputation reputation reputation tion of ot its author It showed a weakness in in The the ho ex chain pion plea to drag in tho the name of his ins pro en He HO should havo have stood upon the record of his own o accomplishments Many Other Styles Representing tho the rug rugged ea ba bazil band d to hand catch as catch can style stylo of literature liter- liter aturo wo we havo hava with ith us us' three o pf the ii t brightest stars In iti in tho the firmament Frank Gotch William Ml Muldoon an and Farmer Burns Mr Gotch is 1 a master of the Ule Rudyard Rudard Kipling too hold Mr Muldoon is a patron of millionaires Farmer Burns is 55 years old and hns never nover been sick Then among tho the lighter j weight litte litt litterateurs we wo have havo Battling Nelson Nelton whoso whose powers of ot entertainment delighted thousands up to the time ho he collaborated ed with Ad Wolgast Space forbids me to mention all tho the vast st array of f t talent lont t that is is- hero bero pro pro- pared by by the mere ma magic le of its en to transport the tho American reading public pubic to the tho sido on the glorious tO lr Jr whoa when Jeffries 5 or Johnson as ns the tile case caso may be gets ets his But in looking hooking it over aver I am seined with regret when 1 1 think hink that thiat the tho sporting writers are su feebly represented I lament nt at the absence of U Walloping Wallo in Denil of Now En England land He may not posses Continued on page 16 15 JACK LONDON Continued from irom page j l world there has bas never been beena so aJ a R gathering Catherine Almo Almost t every chi and champion ox-champion of every class dUa 1 r at the ringside There Thero will be bet TV moul trainers traine rII and conditioners etes letes men like Muldoon and lS Mur of ef There will be bo the tho athletes athlete the victors and leaders in m all the Anti Ansi as for tho the noted and n port sport followers they y all aU will win bo boll bl Every figure of dorn fro from lj Jordan tho the well beloved blvd veto veteran do down to tho the latest and v cs cst f fight promoter they will be YO c o 01 round p ground r And Arid they will win J watch tb strangely diverse d heavy weights weight i In f b beside whom whom all aU other othor heavies look middle weights S Crowning Fight right of Ages 3 Johnson tho the fighting boxer wi up n against T Jeffries tn boxing f Both oth or cr are arc cool both arc are Both are arc terrible It will vilh not Le be be a I fight It will be Le a great f fi cht bt And so 80 I 11 say a again n to all aft art yo you who love the game came have the tho price are arc within striking distance of ot come conic It is if the fi h of fight crowning fight of the tho whole ring perhaps the tho last sr great at fi fight ht that thit ever bo be held Also Abo to you lovers o 0 jimo Jamo amo who sho desire to see in tin fleth hood blood the celebrities of the tho game come corne It would take years of tray trav and fight following to see sec all th tb thires the ires of that can bo be urn seen in Reno Rena in one ODO day nud and no admi charged I for one hope for a toot tool a ago age e when nothing is left but hut to i z I ble bio reminiscences and in th that t tim of m my greatest joys will bo rb to mai over tho the wonderful details of ot tile tie fight at yes leno yes yea sir in 1 I Reno I was thoro thore and eat rat by the side d 4 |