JEFERIES' JAW.

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 3

JEFERIES' JAW.

'■'. The offer of -a "p.urse of 50,000 dols. 7£12,Q00) for a fight for the Worlds Heavy-weight Championship, m which: Jim Jeffries, the champion, would figure, lias brought that husky individual out, .of his retirement, and he is now said to be even willing to drop the color-line, far enough to allow black Jack Johnson to get inside it- The coon thinks he is dead sure to win over Jeff and is willing to sign "winner take all," and then bet Jim 10,000 dpllars on the side. He's full of hot air, this nigger, but he really can fight a whole lot. However, brother coons McVey and Felix,' and the like, are not m Jeffries' class, as Jack Johnson will find if ever he gets into the ring with the giant CaKfomian boiler-banger. A friend of mine, who is a very good judge, writes me from Sydney that he has seen Johnson spar m exhibitions with Mick Dunn (one of' the cleverest middle-weights on this mudball), and the black, he says, made Dunn look a fool. He winds up : "I have seen many men box, from . Jem Mace to Griffo, but this man Johnson is a revelation to me." Perhaps it ie just as well that Wren compelled Bill Squires to -side-step the coon.