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Show JOHNSON WANTS A fiHT Victoria, March 9. Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion pugillsh. and his white wife, a former Philadelphia Philadel-phia woman, who threw in her lot with him after the fight at Sydney, and Sam Fltzpatrick, who is no "longer manager of the big black champion, having severed his relations with him, arrived this morning by the Canadian-Australian Canadian-Australian liner Makura from Sydney. Johnson unreservedly declared his willingness to meet Jeffries or any other oth-er man. In an' interview just before leaving Vancouver, Johnson said to an Associated Asso-ciated Press representative: "I am willing to meet Jeffries; I am willing to meet any man in tho world, and don't think that anyone can get a decision over me, much less put me out. It amuses me to hear this talk about Jeffries claiming- the championship. champion-ship. Why, when a mayor loaves office, of-fice, he's an ex-mayor, isn't ho? When a champion leaves the ring, hfs an ex-champion. Well, that is Joffrles; he wants to get the championship back and I'm willing to take him ou. "N'o, I'm not making any restrictions. restric-tions. What's the matter though in the talk of arrangements of a fight with Jeffries? What will Johnson take? In all the notices I have seen. It's all what Jeff will take. What's the matter with what Johnson will take? I'm the champion ain't I? I want a winner and loser's end; I don't care what it it. GO and 10, or IT, and 23. but there's got to be a winner and loier' end. That's h.w it was with Burns. "I knew I could get him and I followed fol-lowed him around the world before I got on with him at Sydney to show the rople that I could do it. IT Jer fries wants a go, as tho papers say, he's to eeo mo 1 I |