JOHNSON-JEFFRIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10032, 5 July 1910, Page 5

JOHNSON-JEFFRIES.

GREAT EXCITEMENT AT RENO.

Unites Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright Received July 4, 10 10 p.m. RENO, July 4.

I Special trains are arriving half hourly, an.l many people are sleeping in the open. Mr Schwab and other millionaires are living in private railway cars. The streets are thronged with hungry crowds seeking entrance to the crowded restaurants, where exorbitant prices for food and drink are charged. Others are visiting the camps of Jeffries and Johnson. Californian enthusiasts are favouring Jeffries, and many consider Johnson, won't last twenty rounds. Corbett, Kilran. Battling, Nelson, Fitzsimmona, Sullivan, Burns, Lang, Savin, Sharkey, Langford, and Ketcbell have arrived.

The arena is 1£ miles from the city, and tbres hundred feet square, with a twenty seven feet platform in the centre, below which are telegraphs, telephones and for supplying bulletins to the music halls,and other places where bulletin boards have been arranged. Each row of seats ia five inches higher and so arranged that the speciators can see between the heads of those in front of tne ring.

"UNTIL JOHNSON WINS."

Received July 5, 12.10 a.m. RENO, July.4.

Some of the negro churches invited members to meet and pray and sing "until Johnson wins."