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Show r i a roup of hundred thousand not to fiut Johnon." Suggests Joining Roosevelt. "Whats the matter with Jeffries ducking all this trouble and joining I he Roosevelt expedition to the wilds of South Africa?" asked another friend. And all fins time no one not even JoJlrles himself knows what Jeffries purposes doing. The wildcat offers fur a flfih! with Johnson he simply trrlns at, taking them for what they arc worth and paying no attention to them. Tho vaudeville offers interest him more, though even hero there is plenty of winnowing to do In order to segregate the wheat from the chaff. Ho Is the recipient of some really good offers, and it Is plain on the face of it that the footllght gamo will en-ga?o en-ga?o his attention for months. Ho will be gradually improving in hl3 wind meanwhile, and the grossness will leave hi6 frame. Ho will know a couple of months from now whether he is anything like the Jeffries of old physically, and then In all probability ho will declare himself definitely In respect to a fight with Johnson. Jeffries Starts on a Tour of the Country. (ByV. W. Naughton.) Sau Francisco, Jan. 26. We are fast approaching chaos in the matter ot lids for Jeffries' theatricals and Jcf-i'nes-JohnBon fights. Insofar as tho Klu.?e end of the Jeffries boom Is con-ceircd con-ceircd they are already taking hundreds hun-dreds of thousands, and It would not Furpriso us 1! they talked millions, presently. Ab regards the fighting phase of tho Jc-firle? renaissance offers of $100,00') have also been made. The trouble started In Australia when Wren Did : $50,000, probably the only bid that was marely on the level. Since that time the phantom llguree have been creeping up. We had $60,-nK', $60,-nK', $65,000. $75,000 and finally $100,-(oit $100,-(oit the careless and care-free offer of on of those over-night Nevada mining min-ing camps. By strange coincidence this especial desert Golconda is nam-cJ nam-cJ Mazuma. Jl Is littlo wonder that Jeffries Is rattled if he is rattled and It Is little lit-tle wonder that he Is bewildered as to what the future holds for hlni. To some of thone close to Jeffries the situation sit-uation Is made a basis for Joking. "I guesr. tho big fellow had bettor hold off a while," said Dick Adams. "Maybo some one who wants to be thoroughly original and secure tho most advertising thereby will offer him j |