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Show THERE WILL BE ICHJELTI1 New York. April 15 Judging from On preparations being made for handling handl-ing of betting commlsnlnn on the Jchnson- Jeffries battle July 4. the content con-tent for heavyweight ring supremacy will b Mie of the greatest events upon up-on which sportsmen have wager'-d In many years. It 1 believe. 1 thy thi who carefully follow the trend of such matters that the amount of money which will bo In ihe hands of stakeholders stake-holders when the pucillsts enter the rlcg will ruu Into many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tho world wide Importance of the battle and tbe Iniernatlonal reputn-tln reputn-tln r both Johnson and Jeffries. It Ik expected, will load to wagers from &ll pans of the world. The bout set for Independence day contains so many angles which have never been present 10 previous ring combats that there Is a'wldo division ct opinion as to the vltlmate w Inner. . Jeffries Hat Greatest Following. Jeffries, In bis prime ns a -pugilist was conMdored to bo abs-lutoly invincible. invin-cible. Fighting at a time when the -heavyweight ranks contained a fromld-,a.ble fromld-,a.ble list of competitors, ho twice went through tho list, sweeping all before him In hU climb to tbe championship. (Tbls record, which has not been excelled ex-celled In modern pugilistic history, ijnvo him a following nuch as no other fighter has ever bad. The admlra-'tlon admlra-'tlon which bis performance arouses among pugilistic enthusiasts has nevre bern dimmed. To a great extent It holds good today, to-day, despite the fct that JeffrleH has 'sot fought a contest of any Importance Import-ance In almost half a decude. In what jlUtlc wagering has been done on the coming contest he bas been a pro-noimced pro-noimced favorite, and the prediction bus been made that he will enter the rolg a 2 to 1 favorite over the negTD. Thin belief Is said to be baoed upon the Idea that Jeffries' admirers, ro-numberlng ro-numberlng bis ability In tho past, will back blm regardless of statement Ithat may come from his rival's tralu-lint' tralu-lint' camp. I Stlment Will Covcrn. In order to make watering brisk ; there mut be, of course, iplenty of I backing for both cugllistj, and, Judc-! Judc-! Inft from reports from various parts of tho country, thin will not be lack-log. lack-log. Tbe situation was summej by a I well-known Broadway sportsman anJ bettor when he said the other night: "Thero will be all kinds of betting 011 the big Emeryville fight, and Just ae flooa an tho men begin to train lu earnest you will seo the money go up In big wads. To my way of thinking think-ing eentlment will go a long way toward to-ward securing a big backlog for Jeffries, Jeff-ries, but tho -wise money will be on the negro. I know a lot of men who can't eeo anything In this talk of Jeff-rH Jeff-rH a, regaining hU great lighting form of a lew years ago. When tbe time comoa they will be at the rlngttldo ready to pobblo up all the 2 to 1 ruouey In sight If anything llko those odds prevail on tho lay of the fight." Great Fighter Like- Jeff. This dlffcrenco of opinion extends Into ttu ranlia ct tho pugilists. It is porslblo to start an argument at any time or place where boxers gather by Introducing the subject of the John-Ron-Jeffrles fight and the probable winner. Jim Corbett, Tom Sharkey, Frank Gotch, Battling Nelson, Ad Wol-gnst Wol-gnst and many others have gone on record as predicting a victory for tho Callfornlau, |