Show WILL JEfFRIES AND JOHNSON MEET I That Is Great Geat Question of the Hour With Fight Fans BAT NELSON AS WRITER Wants ants to Go Into Partnership i With Roosevelt in Africa i I BY ny JOY JOE republican Special Service San Fr Jan 23 Will 23 Will Jeffries meet moot Johnson That's the question of ot the da day In Frisco dud and wherever an any interest i Is taken in pugilism III In the minds of those w who o Know now no pu pugilism in general and Jeffries In particular r they do Ilo not doubt of or the white man loan n having ha a go with tho black man pro pro- I vided ho can get enough mou h llOnO In It H for Cor him Jeffries hns R no fear of the tho result of or such an encounter lie Ho Is lt Is willing to a admit that the battle might last Ot 1 j ID Hi or 20 0 rounds but he Is as confident con con- of or victory as he is that he lie Is alive alice Johnson has nothing much to lose loso in such a fight while lie he has o everything every every- ery- ery thing to gain and will of oC course bo be willing to make all reasonable concessions conces conces- to bring It lt t about There will probably be he a 0 lot of or pro pre sparring Public Interest I must roust be lie worked up you OU know Johnson John John- I son must be touted us as a most blo personage al and d Jeffries' Jeffries dall dally daik life musi mun nc DC bulletined far tar and near noar There I must bo be much muck suspense over whether I tho they reaU really will moot meet where tile the they will meet when under whose whoso auspices tho the amount of the thc purse nurse e tho the rules and conditions con con- and so on AlI this will go So to make for tor publicity and publicity makes make for big prices and big crowds We c will probably ho have havo ve several mon months of from froni now HOW on but for tor all practical purposes pur pur- poses the whole thing thinS has already been decided and only the sJ signing of or the articles of ot agreement walls waits As s s Illustrating the literary ability of Battling Nelson some one has hus lilt liLl dug up the tho following telegram which Bat put on JUie wires last fall tall Wo We turned d em cm m way war at opera house tonight I boxed with Tommy Felts Feltz Jeff Parry and Kid Dalton Dalton Dai- Dai ton on fights ls Jack Clifford at Mars l I I september 29 Owing to a 0 break In tJ the electric electric wires we could not exhibit tho tue thoI I Gans eleon-Gans movIn moving pictures Instead i I went on and lectured on m ITI my career sp speaking of my iny early arl fights etc t I am leaving for tor Chicago at 41 l 1 1215 I o 0 clock chock accompanied by m my father brother Art rt and Charles W. W DIxon i I open at the Trocadero theater with a n matinee maUne next Sunday Will also umpire a a gamo gaino of ot baseball at no Rogers Rogers' ers ers' park and n will box an on exhibition bout with Joe Calligan We Yc will have ha an automobile i In n readiness to carry us to tho the theater s so BO o as not to disappoint the crowd Our p party part was wis tendered a banquet in lii Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- n mento ento b by Billy Bill DIU Hanlon t Go over 01 t that nt n again aln now and so se see if It Y you OU can find thud a wasted word The B Battler had something omet to say and ond ho g got ot aWA away with It H. Tho The commercialism of the prize ze ring se seems ems to liar havo entered d Into the frame garno to su suli such ch an extent that tho tons fans now HOW auk ask li v ho much money n. n fighter hUB has every overy ti n me o ho Ito Js is Qa ae every time r tl tIe 10 fights Since I tho tuio Nelson Gane e th battle the tue question has hasen c coon be joon oon en naked nuked any any- nn number ot of an to 0 11 wealth of or ellon and th tho I pr probabilities ot of his holding what hehn ho lie hoha h ha hn as a. a AK g to the latter let us go on en record ri right hero here as ns saying that it will vIll take talca m man many any a reversal of ot form for or tho the Battler to change chango enough to become foolish w with ith his bis money moncy Ho lIo Is absolutely a b business man and while It may bo ho true t that hat ho does doca his business In a crude crudo m manner anner he has a system all his bis own t that hat will probably end cud in his being beins- the tho w wealthiest pugilist retiring from tho the p prize ring The Tho Battler r keeps books bool s on himself a and nd o er every overy cent spent during tho the day is e entered In the day book so 80 that at the e end nd of tho month he Is ablo able to tell Just h how ow much money monc he has squandered a an and If It an any o of tho expenses run too h high bo ho simply cuts that particular t thing hing down a a. bit Ever Every dollar that comes in or goes o out ut he nan has an account of and when s settling up an un account with anyone i it t will be surprising to noto note the ac accuracy ac- ac c curac curacy with which ho will deal with I figures i gures During Dunn the tho time that Nelson has boon boen boonIn boenIn i In n tho the ring ring he has managed to get to together together to- to g gether ethor enough mane money to bo worth w In Inthe Inthe t the he neighborhood of all nIl of or which is in real estate but not en entirely en- en t irely clear of debt Nelson is Just that good a n business man that he has no d desire osire to be out of ot debt and Just as s soon oon as he begins to t see Hee ee his way clear t to o freeing himself lr of an obligation he p picks icks UI up something new and gets head over heels In debt In tho the course courso of ot tho tim next four tour or live five years cars If Il things go S-O right ht with tho the champion champion champlon cham cham- pion plon lightweight pugilist of ot tho the world no ho will be worth a n quarter of ot a a. million dollars and bo be absolutely independent t Nelson Nolson Is not a 0 gambler and does not smoke or drink but it would bo a great I Injustice to say that he was stingy At this time ho he is paying for tor the tho schooling of ot a younger brother at the University of ot California ho Is keeping his folks in good st style stylo I In and tho the elder Nelson elson has nothing to do llo but attend to business affairs of ot tho the Battler r at itt home Aside AMide from this thi keeping his people eople in good style Nelson according to Willie Britt Is a u money lender on a ft largo scale to friends who vii aro are in need t If It Battling Nelsons Nelson's press a agent ent is to tobe tobe be believed the king of oC the lightweights lightweights light lIght- weights will go AO into partnership with the tho President of ot the United States next spring in tho the hunting bu business and 1 the tho pair pail combining their weapons 1 Iho he big stick sUck and the big ble- unit mit will strive to score aware knockouts in battles buttles with all the tigers and elephants in Africa B. B Nelson is planning to Join 1 T velt volt on the latter's expedition through tho the Dark Continent and says ho will get et whatever the President overlooks n In iii tho the thoVa Va way of game e Mr Roosevelt has hILs not been beon consulted but hut that makes makos no difference to Bat Dat lie no figures that Teddy having ha learned of his twin vic vie victories victories tories over oer Joe Joo Gans Cans will be bo glad to have him along as a n protection against the natives e a aA A Western product who little more than thaI a year car ago was riding tho the at the round go at nt Algiers that disreputable outlaw truck track just across the river from flom Now Orl Orleans to lo a position position position po po- po- po of affluence and leading Jockey is tho the meteoric career of Jockey Vincent ill Vin cent Powers Power As can bc bo imagined riding rid rid- IllS hug at Algiers Powers was vas eking out a n amere amere mere mer existence i This is better understood understood under under- stood by tho the fact that tho the outlaws only raced Saturdays Sundays unda's and hol liol- Ways IdRYS For a 9 mere melo pittance tho the bo boy gave ve up his services to owners at tho half milo course To Today y t Powers Is under contrAct contract con- con trAct to Edward Corrigan for tor first culls calls on his services ser for which ho re receives receives ro- ro soo OO per month That ho bo makes double that amount from outside c mounts mount and from second 1 and anti third calls docs doos not require a aCI acry CI very cry elastic imagination to conjure Possessed mod of or a 0 physique seldom found foum in Jockeys the tho boy is a genuine Samson of the riding brigade In other wor words lie he is a n freak from the tho hips up It is this title wonderful devel- devel that serves serc him in III helping his mount Possessed of ot a fine flue pair of hands almost as tender as ns a womans woman's he can be seen nursing his mount for forth forthe forthe th the run through the stretch When 1 he lie sits alts down clown to drive o with a aj i J 1 P II i Ii I 4 Vs-s Vs i t 1 I I I. I 4 ed iy p JEFFRIES AND D DEWITT EWITT VAN COURT whip ho novel never lots lota up in fact tact never nevor to know or at least refuses t to accept defeat It is 18 this thin determination I and the tho riding of ot his hia mount rl right ht ou out outto I to lo tho the wire that has hns oartH earned l for him bin many winning mounts mount In a u. word Powers though h adopting tho the personified fied fled Sloan 8 stat seat at r one more moro than I any other oIlier rider of ot peerless Willie Mar Martin MarI tin tho the equal of at whom ha has never nevor I thrown a leg Ic- over o a horse Critically speaking POW Powers Is of or tho thu now new class of ot successful rul jockeys In Ii Informer Informer i former years it was the custom of the thu leading riders to seek seck tho the bright bt lights light S and all aU that went with them there thero tt to receive tho of ot tho throng Like the dizzy moth tho they were wert burned and speedIly dropped Into ob ob- livion This kind of ot life does doos not ap up appeal peal to Powers Pow On Ou the tho he Is IH book contrary a worm nn and 1 when exercise work of ot tho the mornIng mornIng morn morn- Ing hours bOUlS Is la over or tho the days day's racing I through ho Is Invariably to bo be found fount I tuc tucked ell away In the stretcher engrossed in tho the plot of at a book I S. 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