The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26
COrbett Believes Johnson Win
Be Easy Picking for
BOilermaker.
STANLEY KETCHEL HIDES
IN THE OLD HOMESTEAD
East Prefers to See Jeffries.
Johnson Fight Held in
Salt Lake.
BY JEFF THOMPSON.

women attending prize fights Fie onE
YOU jim; don't you know that wo- n
man VIII spend as much money for a \
seat at the prize ring as a man II sba
wants TO see scrap, Our old friend.
Mr.. Bat Masterson, has come out strong \
against womans suffrage and now comes
James arguing against allowing women
in the arena on July 4 next when the Z
big scrap comes off for tho heavywelrhft D
championship. Jeff's statement anent
mSee Wps fpGo brought forth by the
the hght was held In Salt Lake civ /
arrangements would be made for tJ,s
seating Of 5000 women fight fans.
~ don't believe. in. women going TO
prize fights" gTowled Jeffrles. as he resd
the programme. prize fights are fonght
by men and 1t is a form OF sport intend
ed Tor men ar. and the prize ring Is the last
place ON earth where a woman ought to 1
show herself. l don't believe in Il and
%ill III. counsel against It,"
Jack johnson was more charitable.
Jacks $4,000 teeth cleaned like a Ne
apolitan sunset as ne listened to the
plans.
,",GollIy, dat an jest fine" said he.
Wont look fine with dem white ladies
lookIn on with my belt and sash Mr..
Richard am Jest incest man for
iiZin' OF dat scheme. Glory be!''
tSn am Tith JEFF Let the women attend
pantry shelves and so forth
Ketchel on Homestead.
Stanley Ketchel Is back at the old
homestead in Michigan. Ketchers career
going down was just as meteoric as II +
was was going going up; Up 70 the time Ketehel
greatest ever Already niddleweight
champion OF the United States, with The
his advertising notices. Ketchel was bet
ter Known than Jack Johnson Then
came the New York fever with the bright
lights. the touring cars. cigarettes and
introduced around the chorus girl belt.
and on more than one occasion l have
seen, him ride away from the Bartloidi
hotel with a squab on his arm ~ to
this way for some time. ketche was
logged out in the most eloquent garments
Imaginable; loud checks. spats. chamois
gloves. college boy hat. choker collar.
cane and ever so many more things He
took solace from paper cigarettes the
worst wind-killer In the business today.
Wen. I lost sigth Of Steve. for a time
| know he was training for Johnson:
Next came the sad tale OF defeat. Then
came oblivion. Then came the death
OF Willus Britt Then more oblivion.
homestead eating plum dun and telling
the old man how IT happened. Ketchel
should have taken the offers OF Hugh
Mcintosh and gone TO Australia and built
1
Battling Nelson. Jack johnson and Jim
Jenries viii all three be upon the stage
within few short weeks. Johnson VIII
| be playing one-niSht stands; Jen VIII be
IN Vaudeville and the Battler. oh. he viii
be reeling Off Hamlet
Corbett in Poor Shape.
saw James j. Corbett a night or so
! ago on Broadway. He has Just arrived
| nome from England. He looks the sama
as OF old except that his rotunda is
|
| Corbett being a trainer for Jeffries ls
the biggest kind of nonsense. Corbetrs
physical condition is as good as that OF
any other ordinary man, but. II Is no,
wise up to the standard required for q
boxing trainer for a heavyweight fighter.
who is preparing for big battle. sor
the last hall dozen years Corbett has
been working at acting, and every one
| knows that 1t Is not a muscle developer
"Jeffries is going to win that night
Just as sure as the Omnipotent made ut
son is a four-flusher. always was and al,
ways will be- He can stall about as wei
as any other negro fighter. One blow Is
sufficient TO bring out the yellow one
JEFF and Johnson spar for couple OF
rounds Johnson VIII be wary. suddenly
JeM shoots in a jab that nearly Topples
the black man. For n squirt Johnson
bristles up and extends himself but he
gradually loses hope and confidence unui
he becomes an easy prey. -,
II saw Jedries In ENGLAND ana d.
notice that the lad is in gilt-edged con.
dition.- He will be in finer condition oy
next July too"
lead taken by Memphis and bar Abe Az
tell from bouts In that sunny soutnern
city, Abe has been pursuing his merry
way. picking out the soft ones ana cUp-
ping all kinds OF good coin with very Ut
tie work. Abe's present contract con
slsts OF bout with Young Britt or Bails
more before the Savannah Athieuc csSo
on New Years day. The night Is scheo-
uled TO go fifteen rounds.
Likes Salt Lake.
A prize fight in California may NOT
so more than twenty rounds. Ihas -
a law on the statute books. and no msi
ter how much pull proomteI mas Gn5,her m
fight can't go single roohdi ria lu This r
without being stopped By the police; Ihas
being the case, / cannot for the liie OF
me see why New York sporting wri.ese .lsae
predict so confidentially every day LINZ i.ht
the big heavyweight championship IlsIas
will take place at Colma; everything Soas y
now settled Quite naturally the ngns
could take place at Colma if the promSSs pInSs
ers wanted TO limit It 10 twenty y1Gs r0un'i
but the articles say forty-iive ROUNDS Gc,d.
predict that It will be at Ely, Nev;; Gou IaLe
tield or Salt Lake City. like Sait itaS. ,oo'
the best, and / know Rickard aye1s' ,uh
for when l talked with MN OF '"o o.
jecr he said: af
"rhe merchants and business men "a
Salt Lake want the fight. / have tn,se e,isrs
it over with them There arc smeMo5 sho,5-
for instance. employing tens OF ~ t tSe
sands OF men. ] am assured that - aha
fight is held any other day except s
Fourth OF July. which is holiday a' sor
way, the smelters viii close oow,s sse
day to give the men chance -, 70 orood
the scrap. All those fellows make ,,Sosv sos
money and they would pay good m moiS tSo
for seats. The whole city, wants w,ra1ila be be
fight and l am positive there wou,u wn.nor, ~
no serious objections from the o'sishts
as the law there is against finish i's"
and not boxing :, ,vo,ld a
''why think of the money IL IA MoI bs
take Into Salt Lake. There WouSS ,Sare
thousands Of out -of-town people days
Many OF them would arrive severan 70 for
after. Then the location Is eetuer. Tor
after, Then the location Is Dettu' salt
IL IS more central Approximately and
Lake Is half way between Denver from
the coast. which lessons the d;stannGs, nn,s,,t In
the cast and still keeps the iism,so,ld
the west Think of the money tha' SmoteI-
be paid out to restaurant owners owners Street Street
keepers. cafe proprletors, theaters' why
car companies and the railroads, 10
there couldn't be better place ''N