THE JEFFRIES-JOHNSON FIGHT.
San Francisco, June 30. Screened boxes have been erected at Reno to enable women to be present at the JohnsonJeffries fight on Monday. Several women, who are in Nevada qualifying for divorces, have ordered seats at ten guineas apiece. Jeffries states that bis wind is perfect. Fitzsimmons anticipates that Jeffries will be a certain winner inside of fifteen rounds.
Johnson’s busy left hand, he says, will never stop Jeffries when the men are in the ring. Mrs Jeffries is to receive ,£25,000 as Jeffries’s share of the moving picture rights. , The fight is fixed to begin at 1.30 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Nevada time.
New York, June 30
Johnson knocked out four trained boxers in succession. It is difficult to find anyone able to stand up to his sledge-hammer fists even for two rounds. Neither men intends to do much work between now and Monday. Jeffries declares he is in better fighting trim than during his whole career.
Reno is an old silver-mining camp, and is now noted for the gambling that goes on there and the easy facilities it provides for divorce.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 860, 2 July 1910, Page 3
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186THE JEFFRIES-JOHNSON FIGHT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 860, 2 July 1910, Page 3
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