The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-20
WHITE SUPREMACY PERILED.
ARE THE NEGRO CHAMPIONS GOING
TO RULE THE RINGs

George Dixon and Joe WnIcOtt-COm-
pIexiOn Doesn't Count in the Fistic
Arenn-Let the Caucasian Look
Well TO His LaureIs.
| Copyright.
New York. Oct. bis there any danger
of what our distinguished friend,
! Charles A. Dana, calls negro domlna-
tom in the field of fistic sport?
just at present we are safe from the
/ humiliation of having a black man worlds
champion, but we had pretty narrow es-
/ cape at that One year ago Peter Jackson,
then fit and well. could have whipped
James ]. Corbett, Robert Fitzsimmons,
/ Frank p Slavin, Peter Maher, Joe Choy-
ynski, Charley Mitchell, Joe Goddard, or
any man in the pugilstic profession. To-
/ day he is a complete wreck, worse even
! than old John l.. Sullivan was when ne
went down before the youthful and the
! lucky Corbett. So it is safe to say that
the championship lay between Corbett
| Fitzsimmons, with Peter Maher, Frank
| Slavin and Joe Choynsk as ambitious un-
| derstudys.
There are two negroes in the ring to-
| day who can thrash any men breathing in
their respective classes. Indeed they can
/ Wnlp men out OF their class. ElLnef can
without risk to himself give away ten
pounds. These ebony-hued gladiators arc
George Dixon. champion featherweight
of the world. and Joe Walcott, UNIVERSAL
| ly conceded to. be both champion light
weight and champion welterweight of the
world. Technically Walcott does not pos
sess the title because all the lightweights
| and welterweights of America, England
| and Australia are afraid to meet him. Out
! side of partisan like his manager, Tom
| O'Rourke, there are well-informed sports
men and sporting writer's like Arthur
| Lumley, for instance, who believe that
Walcott can whip heavyweights. For
myself, / think he can defeat any mid
dleweight as well as light or welterweight.
Dixon and Walcott could do a year
/ ago what they can do to-day. Should
| Corbett or any other white man have
fought Peter Jackon twelve months back
| we should have had the extraordinary
! spectacle of black men holding all the
| championships of the world from heavy
| weight to featherweight. There can be
no doubt OF that. All expert, honest
judges of pugilism know in their hearts,
| Whatever their hopes may have been to
the contrary, that Jackson could then
! nave defeated any man in his class, Us
| Walcott and Dixon could in theirs. The
only man who could ever have conquered
| the big Australian was John L. Sullivan,
when he was at his fittest and best. The
Sullivan who faced Corbett at New Or
| leans or even the Sullivan who chased
| Mltchell about the ring at Chantilly,
France, could have never done the trick
| 1t would have taken the Sullivan who
thrashed in quick order years before Tug
Charley Mitchell of England, Herbert
Slade, The Maori of Australia, Jake
kilrain, Dominick Mccartney, John Don
| aldson, John Flood, Paddy Ryan, Patsey
Cardin, Captain Dalton, Prof. Robinson,
PFof Latin 9 9nd legion Of other men
OF america; sullivan was the king of all
| lighters. There never was nor 1 don
think ever will be another like him
How is it that these sable champions
| spring up all at once, 1 have often been
/ asked? Is it because they are far and
away better than their white brethren
or IS the caucasian race deteriorating.
TO these queries l would reply neither.
jackson was short spell ago, and Dix
on and Walcott are now better than any
fighters in the ring because there appears
to be sort of inter-regnum, so to speak.
just now in the pugilistic world. Ten
I years ago the three Jacks Sullivan, Demp-
sey and McAulif1e, could whip anything
breathing in their respective classes as
! little Cal Mccarthy could in his. Sullivan,
as 1 have already stated, could have
thrashed jackson, or any man living,
| while Dempsey or McAuliffe could, l am
confident, have done the same by Walcott
and Cal Mccarthy could, at least have
stood Dixon off, as he once did in Dixon's
( own town, Boston, for Y rounds, occupy
ing four hours and forty-hve minutes
The trouble with all these white cham
pions is that they break down their mag
nificent stitutions by riotous living.
1 Jack McAuliffe is the only one living to-
day who can yet get out and make some
thing like a championship fight, and l
fear that Jack is past his prime at that,
although he. does not believe it mo good,
In the ring I do not believe that race
cuts any figure to the merits of the
men when everything is conducted on the
dead level" firmly believe in the i'm
mortal Bobby Bruins trusm, that "a
mons a mon for a. thot," whether an In
dian, an African or Caucasian sun may
! nave burnt uDOn him The better n will
or black.
The "colored brother" I admit, has
not always displayed the highest cour-
age IN the ring. That was simply due
to existing conditions. He has always
been made to believe that he belongs to
an inferior race, and he has been in
undated more or less ever since Chris
tan or semi-Christian men ruled the
world. Educate him, train him, or even
let him be fuzzy persuaded that he will
get an even break in any contest he
much courage as the white man. History
proves that. Who could have displayed
/ more heroism than Toussiant L'Ouverture
0ld IN Hayu seventy years ago in the
| hopeless struggle of his people against
the trained soldiers of France, or who
IN the present age, is better or a Drawer
man than Maceo, the Cuban patriot now
battling with undaunted courage and
against great odds with the skilled vet
Grams of Spain7
Tom Moiyneaux, the black" the first
nsuc champion of America, too. gave
/ SNiutHce OF the hlgneSt courage Wnsn
he crossed the Atlantic and battled with
the best men of England. He whipped
them all, too, with the exception of
the redoubtable Tom Crib. then cham
pion of England. He fought Crib twice,
ana came within an ace Of winning each
time. He might have won even at that
no matter how black his skim had he been
a British subject instead of an American.
| For talk as you will. there is very little
fair play among our British brethren
| when foreigner comes in for it, no
matter now much they may boast about
it. Ihe gentlemen Of England viii un-