BOXING
JACK JOHNSON TRAINING. __ __ * SHEDDING WEIGHT RAPIDLY. MORAN IN GOOD CONDITION. {Per Independent Cable Service.; PARIS, June 20. Jack Johnson asserts that when he meets Frank.Moran on June 27 he will be the same physically fit and skilful Johnson who whipped Jim Jeffries at Reno some years .back. He adds 1 that liJ has never trained harder for any contest than he is doing" for the forthcoming event. Thete is no doubt that the big negro is reducing" » his "weight, as he perspires freely when punching the ball, #nd in his long morning "trots along the Bois <de Boulouge." Johnson _ has a y big 1 - gash over one of h»s eyes, received through j being accidentally buttoned by his ' sparring partner. Jim Kennedy. -Moran, who' weighs' i3St 4lbs .is standing off boxing for the next few days- He is positive in his assertion that the contest will be "on the level,' 1 and says he" honestly thinks he has a 1 canre of defeating the chamipon.
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Grey River Argus, 26 June 1914, Page 3
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