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Show lion of Johnson's name the retired' champion biased up savagely. "They might aJ 1ult talking about It." said he wrathfully. "1 won't fight Johnson In Nevada or anywhere else, and I don't caro how much monoy they offer." "Why?" "Well. In the first fdace, I wouldn't give that follow a chance to make a dollar through me. In tho second place, he 13 as crooked aa a corkscrew." cork-screw." Jeff would not admit that ho 'believed 'be-lieved Johnson to have a chance with him in tho ring. Ho laughed at tho idea- Iatcr. when ho arrived In New-York New-York sifter his trip to Europe, Jim once nioro opened up on tho subject of the- negro tighter. "Take It from me." Mid he. "they'd better have an ambulance waiting outside out-side for Johnson. I'm going to lick him so bad that they'll havo to take him to a hospital to iatch him up." Was Sore at Jack Munroe. So far as I know, that la the llrst time that Jeff ever made any such bloodthirsty predictions about a battle Jn which he w as to engage. In all his battles, as a comer and as a champion, there was only ore man against whom he entertained a grudge, and that was Jack Munroe. The trouble began la Butte. Mont. It will be remembered that Jeff, after beating Fltzsimmons the second timo In San Francisco, went on the road with an athletic show. In several towns he met local men In four-round bouts. In Kutte ho picked up the ex-fuothall ex-fuothall player, Jack Munroe, and the fport fans of the country were amazed to read In the papers that Munroe had floored the champion of the world with a punch. It had aKays been a matter of prldo with Jeffries that no man had ever been ablo to lilt him hard enough to drop blm to tho lloor or even send him to one knee. Consequently, Conse-quently, the Munroe story made a tremendous tre-mendous sensation. It afterwards led up to a battle, but there was no prL-nrrancement prL-nrrancement so far as Jeff was concerned. con-cerned. The fact that tho story about the knockdown was not true made Jeff all tho sorer. Munroe told afterward that ho had not knocked Jeffries down In the ring. The men were scuffling along tho ropes and Jeff slipped on tho canvas and c?me down on one knee. No blow was struck. The story was sent out from the ringside, by a man who was a friend of Munroe's, and at tho time he had no Idea except that such a statement would boost Munroo and get his name In the papers. pa-pers. "The fellow didn't mean anything," said Munroe. "He thought It was do-iug do-iug me a favor." But Jeff did not forgivo it. At tho time the last of the heavyweight timber tim-ber was neatly sawed up and stacked In the Jeffries woodshed. There wasn't an available man in sight and the pro-molers pro-molers pitched on Munroe. Tho true story of Munroe's training has never been told. He was the most hopeless proposition that an expert trainer ever worried over. A Tew days before the fight Tliu McGrath, who acted as chief trainer for Munroe, took the Butte miner to a doctor's ofilce and asked that Munroe's Mun-roe's heart be examined. Would Have Been Shocked. "Nothing wrong here," said tho physician phy-sician after the tests. "Sound my pumps, doctor," said McGrath. Mc-Grath. "See If I can stand an awful Jolt, will you?" "What's that for, Tim?" asked Munroe Mun-roe innocently. "You might .win, you know." answered an-swered TIrn earnestly. "I want to know If I coiild stand the shock." On the n'ght of the fight severaf of Jeff's friends called upon him at the Cas Kitchen in Oakland, where he always stopped before a fl;ht la San Francisco. Mrs. Jeffries received the visitors, most of whom were known to her. Jim was taking a rundown and was not visible. "You boys had better have a bet that Jim will win inside of five rouuds." said Mrs. Jeffries. When pressed for her reason she answered: "lie has never been mad at a man before, but he is mad at this ono. j You'd better have a bet that he will win quick." JEFFRIES Will f ICilTJ MR (Uy C. K. Van Loan.) New York, March 11. A grudge light, when there is a real grudge mid not a feeling manufactured by press manipulation, is usually a nasty. affair, aud there are Indications that thero will be something personal In the clash between Jeffries and Johnhon. In the first place, the grouch is on the Jeffries side of the house Johnson, John-son, a big, good natured, happy-go-lucky fellow, probably never carried Hi will In his life. Uut Jeffries is the type of nian to carry his grouch and nurse It In silence. He does not like Jack Johnson, and his dUlike for him goes back nearly eight years, when Jack Johnson beat Jack Jeffries with a punch and dropped the champion's brother Hko a dog. Two years after Jeff retired from the ring an attempt was madeVto haul him out of retirement to meet 9o,ulies. This attempt failed, because or Billy Delaney's generosity" In making tvjrms with the Australian. Then came- a Nevada promoter, who tald he would give a $40,000 ourse for a finish fight between Jim Jeflries and Jack Johnson. John-son. Johnson's Name Arouses Jeff. I went out to the alfalfa plantation to ask Jim about IL At tho vt-ry nx-n- |