Show c e r Q Jeffries Tells Why WhyDe He De 9 Will Not Fight By B James JameE J Jeffries 3 Just a tow low words In connection with the uproar that has h i been b n ed In con connection with the tho demands shat thal I r e turn tun to the ring and to ic re reI I tike l 1 e tho title titI that thai Tommy Tomm yielded up to Tack Jack Johnson Hie Iho negro heavyweight To begin with I do not Intend to light fight mark this as final I have havu alJ burned up many man dollars in tele telegraph graph aph tolls during the past week seek or r so I telling lulling different people in hi all pails palts of o olie lie HIP country that I did not intend intond to I io enter Dt r tho ring again I II I also aiso have printed mary maty state In the newspapers to that but tho the public seems Inclined to doubt l VIr my sincerity It was waR as If it 1 over ever every man manWill Will was saying Quit your our joking Jeff Jeffe when aro are you ou going to whip this n Il gio gl e and win mn back hack the title They Ther seem to W take It for tor granted that all aJI I have haye to do IB Js to 10 get S t my m hair haircut haircut haircut cut jump tho the rope about two weeks k put plit on a n pair of boxing gloves nail and so go 0 In Ju and maul the life out oL ut 1 JohO They nover never stop to think that t at I hate hae bc bean n out of the game for over ocr 3 years oars ears during which time lime a gymnasium 3 lam ium has had the least of my mr attention I repeat that I am sincere wh n I Isay say that I never nover will fight again I 1 IIII will III now tell teU the public why I am Ic le to stay sta out of the anti and a afew afew few fow facts In connection I 1 have bae enjoyed my ring career and and It has been finished I am now en enjoying a title that no boxer ever oer held before and probably never nevOl will hold held after mc me I havo hayo my home my m wife my business my health and DiY my f lends tt i I am not nol rich but 1 I have hw a fiB tho ho money moner I need and will wUl never want vant for tor anything nn thing If Ie a disaster was to hit me and ond I was to be bo swept sc t off oce oceIl roy Il feet without a penny In Lie Lo world then I might try to retrieve myself mys H end md my rn m position by fighting again As Asit Asit Asit it Is I will go on as I am enjoying rry my home my friends and my every everyday lay day Il lifo life Why It If It were moro more money mono I was after atter I would not have havo ha 0 to fight fl ht for Cor or It I J have havo rejected a fortune m ill ii theatrical offers during the past year cur curTo To sum Bum the situation up I am sun z cin tented man and why should I r reopen ny ring career upset my business and for the sake of or a J fow f w dollars that I do not need Another thing I do not believe that the great American public wants to see me come out of retirement I believe that they rather point to me mo as is I am amilo the tho and undefeated champion Tho Thu hundreds of or telegrams that tuat I have been heen receiving are aro from froW newspaper men who are looking for fr forn frn n a good story and from others Who ho would bo benefited by my m consenting to lo tIght fight again Right here I want to W correct a wrong fOn I did not Lie fae title tal to toJ Jack J ck Root Marvin Hart or nr an any else When Whon I retired I J took tho title with mo me and the tho fact tact that thes tel tal tell L lows l ws claimed that I gave them h hu title to fight for was press preen agent ngen worK t rare pure and simple Now a word to tho the people who believe that I T could go goback CJ bock back In tho the ring next week nd md whip Jack ack Johnson I am not tho the Jim Jef Jeffries Je Jeffries fries of ol four years oars ago I hn has spent l 1 Uio I best beat four years of or my mr life in n pro promoting promoting 1 t my m business affairs Sinco I havo hare been In the cafe 8 I I I I have played tho the tart part art of ol a n good goo fel fellow fellow ci low I havo drank In moderation I havo have smoked every day dar and I have hae late hours My M place of busi ml business ness rss loses closes at 1 In Jn the morn leg and many man times I J am the last bat person person to leave the tho establishment Would Train Hard HardAt HardAt HardAt At the tho very er least I would ouid require tL aLc months probably a 8 year Y il to tn got get gt t tInto Into any lin kind of condition and It Is Isa Isa isa a question whether or not I would be beIn beIn bein In anything like lIko the condition that Hint J I Jat wab at when I the quit ring Suppose Suppo o that after aller a year of o training I J sh tid reenter tho the ring and that should beat bent me Then the public and myself would bo be In oven oen a worse predicament The very VOr people who hI hIr arc ar r urging me now to go in and anel light would be the very cry first tIr to turn their backs on me and condemn me mc tor over ever e r having considered a proposition to fight again On the other hand should I whip Johnson which I in all aU probability would I would bo ho in no netter better position I I tion than I am now with the exception e cel cellion lion tion of o having a few thousand dollars added to my m bank account I J whipped every heavyweight In my day dar and the tho majority of o them tb m J I beat twice for tor good measure 1 I has hava re retired retired tired In every sense of the word Tord ord and andI I want nant to enjoy enJo that retirement I J havo gone further In this article than thun over before because I J want to show chow the public just exactly whore where i 1 stand I t have everything eve that th t I want wantI I 1 repeat that I am a contented man and end I want to bo be left alono alon to enjoy mj my m retirement I suppose that tI l In ten years from rom now they wIll still talk of or dragging me out to tight the champion whoever he ho happens tc be |