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Show JEFFRIES PLEASED. New York, Jan. 18 James J. Jef-tfrics Jef-tfrics announces that he Is delighted to learn of Roosevelt's Interest In his coming light with Johnson. A telegram tele-gram from Jeffries given out here today to-day Is aa follows: "Lincoln, Neb, Jan. 17. I am glad to know that the battle which I am about to engage in Interests men like Theo. Roosevelt. I holleve that It means more than Just deciding the heavyweight championship. "Tho interest of Roosevelt may mean that this fight might place tho boxlug game on a higher plane than that which it has formerly occupied." |