ANOTHER OPINION OF THE JEFFRIES-JOHNSON MILL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1046, 24 March 1910, Page 12

ANOTHER OPINION OF THE JEFFRIES-JOHNSON MILL.

Bob Fitzsimmons finishes his Auckland season at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night, and may well feel pleased with the warmth of the receptions given him each night by Auckland theatregoers. Fitzsimmons has fought 370 battles in the ring, and at one time held the middleweight, lightweight and heavyweight championships of the world at the one time. When interviewed down .South regarding the Jeffries-Johnson fight, he gave his opinion unhesitatingly that Jeffries would win. “ When Jeffries said he’d fight that nigger he was fit (said Fitzsimmons). Jim had been training for twelve months before he made his announcement. He wanted to see if he could get into form before he would challenge the champion. I think Jeffries will beat Johnson, because Johnson hag never been up against a man as big and strong as-Jeffries; /because Johnson had never met a man who would tear into him like Jeffries, and he is -scared; .and because Johnson could never hurt Jewries. ‘.‘But,’’ said the veteran, “if the nigger wins he

won’t be champion for 24 hours. He is hated in America, and there would be a race war. The niggers would become unbearable. You don’t know them.” Fitzsimmons will be present at the ringside when the pair meet, having been engaged to write up the contest for the “ Evening World.”