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Starts Training' With Twelve-Mile Run on Beach and Attracts Large Crowd.\ARRANGES BOXING PROGRAMColored Champion Announces He Will Spar Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. \SAN FRANCISCO, Ca!., May 9.—Jack Johnson did his first training for Ms coming fight with James J. Jeffries today, and * although there was no gymnasium work or boxing scheduled, a large crowd Of spectators was attracted to the bench.The colored champion was out on the roads bright and early with George Cot-top, Barney Furey and Marty Cutler, ahd the pace he set them for the twelve-mile trip was so stiff that Cutler dropped out long before they had gone half the distance. Johnson admitted when he returned that he guessed It was too long a trip for the first time, but he showed his Vlnd was In great condition, as he was pot even breathing hard upon his return. He immediately gave notice he would be on the road late in the afternoon and that he* would keep up this program the rest of the week.After the luncheon hour, in accordance With hja promise he stripped down to fighting togs to give the newspaper photographers a chance at him, A battery of eight camera men Was hard at work and Jack talked good haturedly to them as they made pictures of him in oveiy conceivable pose,Estimates Weight at 226,Although Johnson has not weighed since ho reached San Francisco, he stated as his opinion today that he would tip the scales at 226. Men who watched him, however, while plotnrea were being taken, wore of the opinion the colored man would strip considerably under Ms oun estimate.The boxing program Will begin Sunday afternoon and thereafter for at least two weeks he will box three days a week-Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Later 'be will increase the boxing to four days a werek, but says that right up to the day of the fight he will switch from sparring at least three days out of seven, ,,Personally I would be glad not to commence boxing for a couple of weeks, he said, for I ought to know best my condition, but the public demands it and I will show the people just “what Is my condition,”
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, May 10, 1910
Page 12
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