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Show JIM JEFFRIES IS SUPERSTITIOUS Ben Ixmicnd, Cal.. April 26. Whether Wheth-er or not Jnck Johnson's former use of the roped arena has anything to do with the matter It is a fact that Jim Jeffries fought shy of the little Tin; recently installed at his training gymnasium, gym-nasium, and It has been Vemoved. The reason officially promulgated for Its pasting is that it was not bit; enough for Jeffries' purposes, but tito fact remains that from tho moment Ihe big fighter learned that Johnson trained In it for his fight with Flynn at. Emeryville, he gave It a wide berth and expressed his preforenco for pulling off tho camp Ibonts la tho handball court. With tho uprooting of the old ring, one half of tho gymnasium has been roped off and the floor rosined for a materially larger substitute aren.-. Tho ring, which is bounded on lhre. rides by walls, is about forty feet square, and no criticism adverse t- 116 amplo proportions can be brought against ir The floor will not bo mat-trussed. mat-trussed. It Is Fald, and it Is the belief be-lief of many that training on a bai l floor -will militate against Jeffries' speed wheu he meets his negro adver-8;iry. adver-8;iry. The big pugilist himself is not worried over that possibility, however how-ever Morning bouts, though, It l stated, will bo held as usual in tb handball courL |