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Show HALF AROUND THE WLDJfl f ICHT This morning's mall brought me a long letter from Tommy Rums from Australia, and the following paragraph para-graph certainly made me sit up and take notice: "Mr. Mcintosh, Bob Fitrsimmons Hill Lang and myself, accompanied by t went -two of Australia s besl sportsmen, sail June 6, by 'Mnramu' for Frisco to attend the big fight." Just think of tbe interest the contest con-test Is arousing all over the world. Here are a group of people making approximately a trip of 15,000 miles, when we figure the return mileage to Australia, to see a light. The other day 1L'7 arrived from England on the same mission, and about 500 more will fellow. 1 have a letter from Jack Glenson in which he states that a Mr Hyniaun of Capetown, South Africa, reserved ten tickets tor a pnrty that Is coming from there, and a James A. Brown of Brazil Is coming with n party of seven Burns Is an enthusiastic Jeffries nun and writes as follows. "I shall be at the ringside shouting fr Jet-fries. Jet-fries. II by chance Johnson should win, I waut to take Jeffries' present place as representing the white race and wll scad Johnson to the hospital once more, as I did In Australia Johnson would rather fight any other man in the world than he would me. He knows It. and he knows that f was fully able io continue when tbe loliee stopped our fight. It was stopped stop-ped because ..a friend of Johnson'! went to the police and said I had one o" my rigs broken. Just give me one more chance and I will show the big siuoke up. Bui what's the use? Jeffries will make him jump over the top rope the first time he stings him. You take It from me, the Smoke will try and lose on a foul, as he neet will stand for the knockout unless Jeff should happen to put It over good aud strong and put him away with a single wallop before Johnson gets a chauce to quit. "When I meet you in California I want to ask Johnson right before you why he went to the Manley hospital in Melbourne, and he will not deny that his ilbs were fractured and that the X-ray disclosed this fact. I have the Australian statement of the physicians physi-cians that examined him and will publish them If he denies my statement." |