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From the Saturday sports section of The Los Angeles Herald....Jim Jeffries is declared the next mandatory challenger for world champion Jack Johnson by the IBU's championship committee following his lopsided victory over Sandy Ferguson of Canada....Ferguson later explained his poor performance was due to a broken left hand suffered in the third round...Johnson and Fireman Jim Flynn are in the final weeks of their training camps and visitors like James Corbett, Hank Griffin and Joe Choynski state both men are in absolute top fighting form...Flynn says he expects to enter the ring at between 190 and 195 while Johnson looks to tip the beam at just over 200 pounds...At New York's Pelican Arena an aggressive Marvin Hart won with relative ease over Gus Ruhlin who was almost out on his feet when the final bell rang...Lionel Butler came from behind to score a technical knockout over Ulysses Cannon at the Detroit Athletic Hall...Canadian heavyweight champion Sam Langford stopped Tom Sharkey at Brown's Arena, the end coming in the 8th round when the referee ignored Sharkey's corner and wrapped an arm around the bloodied sailor...Most at ringside conceded Langford could have knocked him out much sooner...At Newark, New Jersey Joe Jeannette knocked out Ray Mercer in five lightning fast rounds, sending him into early retirement ...Boston's Dan 'Porky' Flynn needed just five rounds to force a voluntary exit from the visiting Quaker Philadelphia Jack O'Brien who threw in the sponge after being put on the canvas at least once in every round....In a special twelve round elimination bout Down Under Australasian champ Billy McColl forced a stoppage of South Afrika's king Frans Botha halfway through the eleventh round and will advance to a fight with Empire champion Tommy Burns...Burns is set to defend his title this week against Fred Preston of Melbourne for a small purse and expenses...California's Sam McVea is expected to sail from New York for England and the continent on what his manager hopes will be a lucrative tour as his fighter has run out of willing opponents in America...In another battle of Chicago locals John Willie (193 1/2) managed a knockout of Klondike Haynes (176) at the Marathon A.C...