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Show WILLING TO MEET I BIG JACK JOHNSON (By Robert Edgren ) Willus Brltt..the irrepressible, is east representing a wise little combination. com-bination. One. James Coffroth Is on the other end. .The combination spells trouble for Jack Johnson, the new world's champion heavyweight, and the scene of the difficulty will be at Col-ma. Col-ma. where Johnson will be asked to exchange wallops with Stanley Ket-cbel. Ket-cbel. Coffroth has offered $20,000 for the match, and Britt, who traveled east and annexed Ketchel, has wired back j that Stanley accepts and will enter the ring at 175 pounds. On the Pacific coast it is generally believed that Ketchel. Is the coming champion. Some experts fear he is not quite ready to tackle Johnson that it would be better if he waited a ear or two, but there are few who i will not concede that he will some day wear the crown. The fact that he lost to Papke in their first battle does not count against him. He redeemed hjmself in tho second encounter. He is th greatest fighter the real genuine genu-ine article they have seen on tho coast for some time, and all boliee that experience and time, with the weight he is bound to pick up with maturity, will enable him to cope successfully suc-cessfully with Johnson or any man in the world. Ketchel is a natural born fighter. He Is a mixer, always ready to swap punches, and confident that the one he gives will do more damage than tho one he recches. He will take a punch to land one. He has the strength and pugnacity of a wild beast and would rather fight than eat. Willus Britt the same WIIIuk who discovered his brother was a flghtt-r when the latter landed on bis jaw during dur-ing a quarrel at home will steer Ketchel up against Johnson. Until Britt took hold of Staulev ho declared repeatedly that he would not fight Johnson. |