BOXING.
JEFFRIES' PROPHECYThe real sentiments of Jim Jeffries regarding the coming fight with Jack Johnson are concentrated in his expressions respecting Johnson's statement that he intended to offer 1000 dollars to Jeffries to say "Yes" or "No" concerning a match. Jeffries then said to a press interviewer :- "Under those conditions I would be glad to receive Johnson. I would welcome him. If he comes to me with that yellow-back with all those numbers on it I will take it away out of my way until we meet m the ring. Jack Johnson won an easy victory over Tommy Burns in Sydney Just such an easy victory will I have over the negro fighter, who says he is champion of the world; but he will be a more marked fighter than Burns was. I will batter him beyond recognition. I have harboured ill-feeling for a number of the men I met in battlo, but never so bitter have I been against any other living | soul. I'.H batter him into such a state of helplessesa that he will never fi/ht again. I'll show no 'mercy. It would not surprise me ii j I knocked him out in a jiffy—thai is, if he'll stand up and fight. Th< I club that offers me the best induce I merits will get the mill."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9567, 13 August 1909, Page 6
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219BOXING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9567, 13 August 1909, Page 6
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