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JOHNSON SURE OF VICTORY.Ntgre Champion Say a He Will Beat Jeffries In Twenty Ho unde.Jack Johnson, the worlds henry weight champion pugilist, says 1 lint he will not allow his grudge aguu't Jim Jeffries to Interfere with hr- M\le off fighting in his coming battle in t ah foruia on July 4 for the hea\ t uei/M championship of the world ’ I’ei b ips you think I’m kidding,” fee *iul re cently to au interviewer at Clm-ago, “Lot what I’m going to say is in dead earnest As sure as the sun shines od uv today I expect to knock out Jim Jeffries w irlmi eighteen rounds, or you m.'ij make it tuenty to be exact. It tnaj lake a irillo longer than I look foi but not a minute over twenty, and , that goes.I “I would n't be foolish enough to j take a chance ‘nd try to rush an opponent off ins Jeet just because I felt sore and wanted to beat him up in a burry. So don't imagine that I’m talk-Ing about stopping Jeffries in eighteen or twenty rounds because of any such reason. If I thought it was wiser to make a long drawn out scrap of it I’d say so,“In my opinion a great part of afighter’s success lies in having a prettygood Idea of what he may expect his opponent to do, as well as having his own plana made a bit In advance. I know that Jeffries figures on taking the heart out of roe early in the game. He thinks he can bull roe all over the ring in the first eight rounds and have me hanging on for dear life, and that’s the Idea a good many of his friends j have too. Where do some of these dopestera get the hunch from that I'm a chicken compared to him?“It’s the truth that neter yet since I passed my nonce days in the ring have I been fully extended. I never j had to bring etery pound of punching; power In ray muscles into play, and1 I’ve always had plenty of reserve force j to fall back on if T had needed It. But It happened tbar I always won withsomething considerable to spare.; Therefore I don't think It’s boasting; when I say that nobody has ever got a complete Hue on what I can do. This time I mean to let out every link in my body, and there'll be some aston-i ed faces at the rmgdde when they see.] roe going my full gait.“Jeffries won’t be able to feaae roe In the opening round, as he hopes to ■ When he finds that he hasn’t got roe1 scared to death and I am getting back! at him with punch for punch and sev-! eral over for good measure he’ll get ' I some discouraged Then Is when I j i mean to do some rough mauling nay- -j self. I’ll set him the fastest pace he!was ever up against Ha his life, and, \ i believe me, he won’t be able to stand It. ‘ j You often hear folks who think they; I know It alt say that I lack punching power. The fact is I've never been obliged to cot loose with all there’s in me up to date. When I do you’ll hear something drop, and drop heavy.’*
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Warren Evening Mirror
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jun 01, 1910
Page 6
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IL, USA 16 Feb 2017
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