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-_0- . IMUSICAL TRAINING OF JACK JOHNSONTHE CHIEF PERFORMER IN HIS OWN ORCHESTRA. 'The Question of Referee Is Far From j Settled.Sun Francisco, 3lay 11.—'L'lie Johnson program of Exorcising was not changed today, the third* since the colored mail was installed : at the beach. •• Shortly after 8 o’clock he called Tom Little, Cotton Cutler and Barney Furey for a run on the boulevards. Having mapped out a course that gives him twelve miles of alternate level road and hill, Johnson will stick to it for the week at least. The champion s wind, which it was thought might need a little nursin'g. has shown up in good condition.Next week/ said Johnson. I will increase the road work, except on the days I* am to box.” * ■Tex Rickard, who returned from a trip to Ben Lomond, where he talked over the referee question with Jeffries, also had a conference today with George -Little, the manager of Johnson. ••Nothing came of It. however, ami Rickard admits that the prospects are that the promoters will have to • do their own selecting.“Little told me.-suit! Rickard, that Johnson would stick for either Welch or Grancy. 1 don’t .believe there is a chance that Jeffries would accept Welch, and I am not certain whether Graney would be satisfactory. But one thing is certain. If these men cannot reach an agreement on Monday, Gleason and I will take the matter into our own hands.”Joe Choynski. with his ideas of music and literature, as related to pugilism. should he located in the Johnson camp instead of at Rowardennan.
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Phoenix Arizona Republican
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Thu, May 12, 1910
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