OFFERED PORTER'S JOB.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 January 1912, Page 2

OFFERED PORTER'S JOB.

JEFFRIES OPINION OF JOHNSON

CHICAGO, Jan. 27

Having no ring fighting to occupy his time, Jack Johnson is hankering after a fight in the courts, and is looking to Jim .Corbett; Jim Jeffries, the New York Boxing Commission, and others to provide the opposition^ "I've got my legal training camp all ready," the champion declared to-day, "and I don't care who takes first shot at me. If Corbettt wants to go to iaw with me I'd jus;t as soon fight there as in the ring. I have also got'my eye on that New York Boxing Commission, which thinks it is running America. Then, if Jeffries has anything to say I am ready for him. I am also keeping an eye on O'itourke, and watching Tom Curley and Jim Flynn." When asked whether-he was still negotiating with Mr Mclntosh for a fight with Sam McVea in Paris, Johnson replied: "1 am too busy already, and if a fight were to come up now I would collapse. I wouldn't go for £20,000. I want to see my fight with the Boxing Commission through first." ;

Jeffries has replied to Johnson's legal challenge by offering him a porter's job in his Los Angeles cafe*