JEFFRIES-JOHNSON MATCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 66

JEFFRIES-JOHNSON MATCH.

LOCATION OF THF BIG FIGHT. NEW YORK, January 24. In a long letter to Timothy D. Sullivan, stakeholder for the Jeffries-Johnson fight, Tex Bickard apparently makes it plain that he w-ll cause serious trouble if he cannot have his own way regzadmg the naininc of 'Salt Lake City as the place .or the battle, in spite of the hostile attitude* of Governor Spry, of Utah. Rickard says in his letter to Big Tim that there will be no n>nt unless Jeffries and Johnson live up to the -u-ticles of agreement they have already signed. Rickard goes on to state that 4 will not only claim the IO.OOOdoI forfeit posted by each pugilist if they refuse to fight at Salt Lake City, but he will also take legal steps to restrain them from lighting in California under the auspices oF Jack Gleason. . ■ RicKard insists that he will soon post the entire amount A the lOl.OOOdol purse with Sul'ivan. and that suit one dollar of tins sum will come from Gleason He asserts further that he has leased the Salt-aii Pavilion, and has let the contract for the. moment of the arena, so that theie Sf bHSom vn it for 30,000 spectators. Rickard points out that this payilion is built on piles about nve mte o^ in the lake and that it is owned and controlled by the fading members oTthe Mormon Church, who have guaranteed that theie will be no interference. .... ... Rickard declares that T if it is tnmagM* to pull off the fight in Utah the 101,000dol purse will be forfeited to the pugilists, who will then be .free to accept a proposition from GleasonVSan Francisco Club. _ • Meanwhile ttie Governor of Utah mejste the he v.ill stop the fight and will call out the militia if such a move is.deemeu necessary. . t -> --' '-: J-

Jack Johnson was recently examined By Dr Dudley Sargent, who is an expert at measuring athletes, and who.has made, * specialty of examining .all the gieat fiffhtera. of the day. Johnsons record, in strength- tests was 1585 points, an unusually hiafa total, for the average record by 'Varsity football players is 900.. After- his examination of the big black Dr Sargent Raid that Johnson was without doubt the strongest ..fighter he had ever examined. '•Johnson is not only very strong in ...the arms and back, but he is .also, exceptionally powerful in the. lea*," added Dr Sargent. "Both arms seem to be of almost equal, strength." • , NEW YORK, March 26. . Sir Robert. Perks, in addressing thy Methodist Social Union at New York, declared that the Jeffries-Johnson fight would be a disgraceful ami brutal orgy of wickedness, and the United States was disgraced by countenancing, such exhibitions. Sir Robert Perks appealed to the Methodists to protest and stop the fight.