BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 77, 9 July 1910, Page 7

BOXING.

AN IMMENSE RECEPTION. By ("able.—Press Association.—Copyright New York, July 7. Johnson had an immense reception at Chicago. Crowds of negroes cheered him lustily, and a long procession of motor cars accompanied him to his mother's house. JOHNSON AS A PROPHET. HOW HE FORETOLD THE FIGHT. "As true as the sun shines on us today, I expect to knock Jim Jeffries out in eighteen rounds, though perhaps we may go to twenty" said Johnson some time before the' fight. "But the last is the outside number. I know I've the Indian sign on Jeff. You laugh; well, you may if you like, but I feel pretty sure I can get him and win inside twenty rounds. "A fighter's best chances," he continued, "lay in his being able to form a pretty good idea of ,what his opponent would try and do, and then to make his own plans fit in with the other fellow's notions. At any rate, that is my way of going to work, and it has never let me down in the past." After referring to Burns, 'Ton may say Jim Jeffries is a very different person as to size. That's just so, and makes it yet more likelv that Jim will try that game on me. In fact, I know he will, ami that he figures considerable on taking it out of me in the first few rounds by rouehing me round the ring, but he will find I can play a decent band at that sort of thing. "The man doesn't live who can yank me around just as he wants to. Jim Jeffries may be strong, but when he bumps agin me he bump agin one quite as strong, and who knows how to use his strength quite as well. Sonm silly dopesters get the bunch that I am a chicken beside him. Well, when it comes to mauling round at close quarters he'll find I'm not an easy guy. "You can havp it from me right here now that I have never yet mixed it with a man that has extended me to my last link nor anything like it. This time I'm expecting to have the whole cable out. and out it will come to the very last half inch. I'm just certain sure of one thing, that if this does happen ano I have to cut loose something will drop, and drop a bit heavy at that."