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Show JEFFRIES OFFERED $100,000 FOR FIGHT Chattanooga, Tenn.. March 23. Chattanooga capitalists offered a purse of $100,000 for an eight-round fight between be-tween Jack Johnson and Jamos J. Jeffries Jef-fries in this city. The state law permits per-mits short contests only. , Boston. March 23. Jeffries, when informed in-formed of the Chattanooga offer said: T thank the gentlemen rrom Tennessee Ten-nessee for thslr, generous offer, but I won't fight unless I get into the right shape." - ' - |