Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-01-18 | Page 2 | Julian Picks Jackson to Win

JULIAN PICKS JACKSON TO WIN (By Martin Julian.) Jim Jeffries will win the big fight July 4 from Johnson. At that, I am a great admirer of the black. Ho Is & different man from what many think him to be, but you see, I know what kind of an old bearcat this fellow Jeffries Jef-fries is, and that la why I say what I do about the result of the battle. By the way, when they talk of men with pluck and grit, don't ovorlook Jeffries, for "Bob" Fitxslmmons punched punch-ed himself out hitting him, and we all know that "Bob" was one of tM hardest hitters la the world. Jeff was almost blind when "Bob" weakeued and could not defend him self and had to bow to youth. Fits will be 43 on his next birthday. I guess I am the only man In the world who knows how old "Bob" Is, for ho Is peculiar about his age and tells peopl that be Is much younger than he really Is. He wa at his best when he was ?8. When Fit fought Jim Corbett in Carsoa City I Imported 12 of tho quickest shooting cowboys In Texas to protect us, and this Is about the first time that this has ever been told. Ton can see them In the pictures ol the flght. The-' were sworn to by the government govern-ment of the state of Nevada, and they wore their guns, and were there to shoot If any one tried to molest the late George Slier, who refereed the fight. Slier had ben threatened, and when ho told me I said I would protect pro-tect him If he was honest, and I did It cost me a lot of money to brine: those men there, but It prevented them from handing me a raw ool, and I think to this day that unless the gar-biers knew that I was golns t6 kill to get a square deal they would have flooded the ring when Jim Corbett was losing that fight, for they backed him to the limit.