Show SOME LIVE LIVE- SPORTING GOSSIP J JEFfRIES POSTS fORFEIT fOR A JOHNSON fiGHT 1 Puts Up Five Thousand Dollars Dollar i to Bind Match With the Negro Champion J IT IS NOW UP TO JOHNSON t Colored Man Must Also PosTen Pos Post j ji i Ten Thousand Dollars as a Side BetY Bet i Y J BY G 0 q E. E VAN TN LOAN New York July 23 ry My My t money mon y is ill up Now Nov get Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's John John- Johnsons That sons son's five thousand was all aU J Jim J Jeffries had to sa say ny about the Uw posting of his forfeit to bind a n match with Jack J J aek ack Johnson T hen heavyweight t champion of the world It was enough The agony of several months ended in the most prosaic f fashion Jim might have talked for an hour Sam Berger might have pulled his liis cuffs down and delivered red an un oration As a matter of fact Berger put hIS liis lis hand into his pocket extracted ex ex- five new notes of 1000 each and passed them over to the stakeholder wi without a word WOla I This mone money goes oes to in hind bind a match with Johnson the tile duration of or which may be anywhere h between tween twenty andone and andone one hundred rounds Upon the thc si sign n Jn of or articles Johnson post 10 1 I to operate as n It side bet het upon the outcome of the contest John T. T Clarke o of San Francisco Is suggested as the tho 1 stakeholder I r sail call next Thursday for tor or Europe f said I will not lint be Le gone ono I er than 0 weeks When I return re- re turn I 1 shall Rhall bo be ready to go o Into active j a and it wont ont take much lon longer er I than than- three months to lo got get me inc Into I shape shapo to tJ light fight ht any man In the world The fhe only thing thing- that can possibly upset up- up set liet m my plans would bo ho the refusal of or ori i Johnson to II tight me mc I have posted m my I I mone money and It will talk tall for tOI me nb Now 1 I get g-et Johnson to his put up forfeit and andI f r W wo w. are nrc all set Tills This is straight talk talle It j sounds like bu business J les arrived on a a. morning mornin train from Ch Chicago o. Long before 1 o'clock the lobby Jobby of oC the tho Albany hotel was vata i. i d i Mi Mi ger er escorted cort l the procession up Ull to All Mt h suite Mr Ml Herger 1 dealt out typewritten copies of tho the Jeffries Joffries deft tI a end and nd tho the money which he handed over The Tho entire transaction trans did not consume con con- some sume thirty ty s seconds Now low sis us to condition cOl said saul Jeffries I have o been doing a lot of road ond work and I 1 am down to U You can take it H from me this Johnson fight will bo be worse than the Monroe l thing thins Of OC connie course I can not t say ay hut I 1 think the tho 11 light ht will occur in California I would not like to pro goo outside this countr country to toI I light The men who hid bid for tor the tho contest contest contest con- con test must roust put up some coin Now Sow I am going to Europe for 1 three weeks I 1 am going g to drink some ome water ateI ut at Carlsbad I 1 dont don't nee need the water but Im I'm going oln to drink it my WK way It wont won't tb do mo any harm Jeffries has hns been quoted a as claim claim- lug Ins the heavyweight ht championship lIe Ho said this I dont don't claim a thing thine said Jeffries except that m my money moner Is up and atal I ready an and Im I'm read ready to talk business Is that good enough It is b. It would seem to be up to Mr h John so son I V 4 i 9 JAMES J. J JEFFRIES |