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Show JEFFRIES AGAIN TO MEET JOHNSON New York, Aug. 15. The rumor that James J. Jelfrles was drugged lui'ore he entered the ilng at Reno cu July 4, to suffer defeat at the hauds of Jack .lohnsou, was revived lu New York today. Robert IMgren, sporting authority and writer, who has spent sour? time with Jeff la the last few weeks, says lodM- without qualification that he hi lieves Jeif was beaten by drugs. He alto decli.-res that Jeff still wishes ho could figh: the negro again. Edgren'K statement reads: . "There are curious facts coming out gradually. Jeff believes, as scores of his most intimate frl?nds in the went believe, nnd I almost absolutely V'llevo, that he was drugged. It would be a curious thing if it were proved some day that a cun of tea h:-at .11 in Jeffries at Reno. Such things come ij light sometimes. "Onre I asked Jeff point blank. 'If U is proven in the next few months that yon were drocg"d before the Reno light ni'd If there is a chanre public opinion would force Johnson into the ring, are you going to challenge chal-lenge him and fight . again?' ''I don't know,' said Jeff, 'but I will never fight any man but John- j son. And if I fight him again I'll J beat hi m.' " j |