Show IMPORTANT TS FROM EVERYWHERE JOHNSON DENIES SOME FIGHT DOPE Declares He Will Meet Ketchel and OBrien O'Brien on Dates I Fixed THINKS JEFF IS FAKING Will Pay No Attention to Former Former For- For mer Iller Champion Until F For For- or- or fit Is Posted I IJ J BY I ED W. W V. V S SMITH Chicago April 26 o G.- G. No o matches e made mado and signed for tor will b called oft off unes unless there Is good am an and sufficient reasons for tor It Ill I'll fight tight Jacl JacI OBrien O'Brien on May Ia IS and Stanley Ketche Ketchel on October 12 12 but tho the latter case J 1 JIn IE In fn proviso pro If It Jeff will fight right me then I call off the match but not unless In these words Jack Johnson disposed dis dis- posed hosed yesterday of oC the tho stories that he heis Is making matches mere merely because h his he hc heIs is fond oid of oC It and and likes the advertIsement advertise advertIse- ment that comes out of it The champion arrived in tho morning anc mid and opens a wee weeks week's s 's engagement ens at ai thena the tin na market theater tonight Stories have been printed that that J 1 made mado the forfeit for br tho the Ketche Ketchel bout because I dill did not care to him T They ar are arc not true true- What lat I dk did say Nay av and 1 sa say It now is that If It Jeffries Jet Jet- fries tries will vIll a agree Iee to box me within what an any fair air minded man must consider con con- sider lder a reasonable time can have c that forfeit an and 1 I will spent spend all of oC m my time lime preparing for Cor or the Jeffries Jet Jef fries battle battlo I am am nm not mal making matches for Cor advertising ad ad- or anything of oC the tho sort When hen hena a promoter can show how mo the money and aud got ot the tho opponent 1 I will box that's all there is to it Im I'm getting 60 0 for foi boxing six rounds founds with Jack OBrien I will make a lot more than that b by to Ketchel that he heIs heIs heis Is foolish to go out of or his class if r I Match Inch There has hns l been een a lot of or criticism about the Ketchel match and people do llo not seem to think much mUth of or It on tho the Ketchel end Mr Ir Coffroth how how- over o thinks It Is a great match matth andus and ns us he Is doing doing- the gambling lIn on It It I Ican Ican can not see eec wh why I should not go along But Bul If it I pulled out of It now you OU know what people would say ay That's why wilY 1 sa say that unless I get on with Jeff an actual match I mean and not Merely Mere ly I Jeffries' Jeffries xay a ay so that h hp ha Intends to fight f ht me sometime Ill I'll be ie In the Colma Coima arena on October 1 12 prepared to fight tight Ketchel not posted postell Forfeits of or are merely to for I tho the purpose of oC being han handed hand hand- 1 ed eel over o to a man I 1 can tan whip to a n Money Ione Is not exactly as ns cas easy a n that with mell me H ll Is m my intention to begin road roadwork work v ork tomorrow so o as to be Jn in good shape for fOI the OBrien O'Brien bout I am amoa o. a away up In weight and scale scab close to 2 i right ll ht now no Ill I'll 11 get het down to OS at nt least before May Ia 1 I must bo ho In battle OBrien O'Brien shape for Cor a six round Is one of or the best in fn the tile business But ButI I don dont don't t admit that this wonderfully speedy peed fellow has anything at all on me ne In cleverness ele s or speed or 01 anything I else Ise n t Is Is v going going- to to to- Interfere with m my trip t tO Europe We lYe will sail saila May a 25 5 Here Is m my contract for a limited time over o there Belle Believe me Jeff Jerr does doe not Intend in me That Is perfectly c Y clear to 1 my mind nO Jh now and unless as I 1 have havo said paid many times latel lately he sc sees s fit to cover m my 00 which Vilich is now up In Ine New e York ork 1 t will pa pay no further heed to him h Why should I I 1 He lIe Is no flO better than any ay other othor challenger for tor forthe the title and certainly I would pay no attention to any man who didn't j put up the tile money Drift Willus Britt kidded Ketchel I etch l I Into to I that side bet of or Th There re isn't any doubt of or it Ketchel should whip some of oC the tho other American heavyweights heavyweights heavy heavy- weights before he ho tackles me If Ie he could get awa away with Kaufman Barry and some of oC the others ho he might be bc given hen a chance with me Johnson saw Cyclone Thompson box at the tho Trocadero during the afternoon afternoon after arter- noon and complimented the tilt Illinois II lightweight on the good bood form Corm he hc dis dis- played He lit Is of or the opinion Johnny JOhnn will give Nelson Ielson a hard argument |