JEFFRIES IN NEW YORK

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12749, 21 April 1909, Page 6

JEFFRIES IN NEW YORK

-When James -J. Jeffries, whom his fiends still r$ gawi „as the .-o&ajMpittn heavy-weigiW; bweev. 'oluthe .worlds arrived, i*fN<Mi? y<*rJ? / ,,lhe,,«ail«s*Ti;Btafcsoii )bo*n£ I fcijosa^icdr^y-I^OU.entlilisi&sts, all *Uxiou»* tq,givß' *'je (juetJtMnMv.hich 1 hasibeen o»i eyery, sportsman's *»f« since Johnson'e \sctppyVover. Burns, in Australia : ''Are you going to fight the i.ik'ge.s?"' - . Jeffries; who wore his -'broadest 6nrle, admitted (tays the Daily Jlelcgraph) that he would meet Johnson provided he could train himself into form. He seemed in magnificent health.

The crowd yelled to Mrs Jeffries to. see that her husband 'did not smoke any more, cigarettes. This had reference to an interview from "Chicago, in which the pugil- i ist was represented as saying that he had smoked five boxes of cigarettes daily for \ nearly a year. Jeffries laughingly ridicul- ] ed the interview, saying that he never ' emoked a cigarette in his life.