Show JEFFRIES STILL IS 13 AGAINST A FIGHT Thinks of Having Cards Printed Printed Print Print- ed With Word No on Them BY J JAMES IES J. J J JEFFRIES EFFRUs l and Undefeated heavyweight ht or of the World San Francisco co Jan Vho 3 Who salt sah that interest In the boxing game me waon wa wn on the Iho wane After Arter iii 10 my experience o 01 OJ tho the past week I am ant led lcd to believe thai t the he gloves cs are more mOle popular with th the UH public than ever before It may ol o. c course ourse bo be po possible that tho fact that thai J Jack ack Johnson a negro holds the thc I h heavyweight hea championship of or the I world for tho the first time In tho the history o of at f the ring ls Jg responsible tor for the i Q revival re Be that as us it ma may I have bave heard m more ore light talk here In San Francisco d during tho the past week than I o have h heard eird for tor the last six Ix months Every Every- h bod body od and antI his neighbor appears to bc- bc h ove that it ft la is their honorable dut duty to a tk mo me if It I am going to light again I am run still lg out tho same sama answer r r rth thi th I have huva been enn e. e 1 If W If-W I am to be put through h this sort of C a n. CrO much jd uch 1 lon Jt I will ouR have t n few thou thousand nd cards car 1 st ruck off with the tho single tIngle word NO O p printed on thorn thom Titis will ave s-ave mo o moa noa a lot o of talk talk- Seriously I speaking both my old and n new cv San Francisco friends have havo tr treated me inc BO so ro royally alJ that I haven't h hail ati th the heart to lose Inse my temper wH with 1 a an any ny of my 01 questioners no matter hoW hov p the they became The rho main t thinS thing that m my friends will want to k know now now no is how I feel tool after my 01 w weeks week's workout I have had liati over fi fifty private telegrams grilling me mc In Inthis t this his connection 1 W. W W. W Naughton and o other ther experts have been kind enough t to o place themselves on oui record as sayIng sayIng say- say l Ing og that I have havo nothing to fear from J Jack ack Johnson That Just about expresses ex et p presses my sentiments I dont don't fear tw t the he ne negro ro or an any other human being w who ho walks on two feet l I My performance with Berger Bergor during dur dur- ur- ur l ing og the first week of or m my theatrical engagement engagement en on- g has been most satisfactory to toe m mo e I believe bellevo that in this short space o of or f time I have refuted the claims of f t the he Eastern snort sport scribes who during t tho he past year have have had me down own and o out ut in their own minds as tho the result rosult o of f m my alleged dissipation Making an unbiased review of the week I feel justified in saying that l my ily sho showing ln was all an that could have b been een expected from a man who has I s strayed away awa- from the athletic path pathor for f or over o four years yeats T I am fat no mistake about that It will take many manya a lun long run on the road to get rid of this his t fat antI and to put my wind in fn anything anything any any- t thing hing like first class condition My y g general health Is of or the best and If It a anybody thinks that I haven't got m my punch left let them come up and p put ut the gloves loves on with mo me Followers of oC pugilism are an inconsistent mean incon s lot Wizen When I was wa In tn this eft city l lost last summer to officiate as referee in inin i in fn n the Attell- Attell Moran Attell-Moran oran teather el featherweight ht c contest erbo c everybody y was criticising Tommy Burns because the Canuck would not light fight Jack John Johnson on WhY dont don't Burns o f Johnson Johnton a chance t the they hey would howl howl Burns has been beon I tl l licking icking a n. lot of ot dubs clubs and is afraid toI to t t ackle a man who would havo have an I chance chanco with him Now those fellows are howling out of or the tho other side sido of their mouths s and ancI L t they hey are howling bowling longer and anti louder t than han over This man Burns is a n. disgrace this dis grace to the tho ring they say ay he lie i hould should never nevor havo kayo crossed the tho color colot l line Une Had lad ho refused to meet Johnson i t the he white PeoPle would never no have c 1 been disgraced raced by having ha a negro as u uhe I t the he heavyweight Ight champion I am urn wondering day by hy day tiny what i my n fate would woul be were I to med meet J Jack Johnson arid and bo be defeated The rhe 1 Sporting Sporting- world is cr crying at me now TO IC TOgo toJo I go Jo In and light fight the tho negro In lit some somo I instances tho the criticism hurled at nt wo no wois noh h is not of ot tho the kindliest nature I KU gel tt l letters etters calling me 1116 a n coward anti and all that thai I sort of or rubbish I i pay no attention to tc them I I have hayo Burnss Burns's example in it I front of me |