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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31
TENNIS
WRESTLING
RACING
BOXING

view of battling with Burns, but re-
fused to consider any fight offer so
long as an American and a white man
held the title.
| After all these years of retired life.
never once swerving from my original
! announcement. I have a right to ask
the public to believe every word say,
and want to say right here that
will not. if I can help it permit that
negro to hold the heavyweight title
If had the least doubt about the re-
suit, no amount of money could induce
me to fight him. / would not lose to
him for all the money there, Is in the
July 4 will bring back the title to
where it belongs. Johnson will not
be the champion on July s.
No doubt About Outcome.
In conclusion 1 want to say that 1
still hold to my old opinion that the
public is entitled to a contest. They
pay to see one and have a right to ex-
pect for what they pay to see. i also
still believe that the true sportsman
should enter into a contest with some
little doubt. But this case differs from
the ordinary. Johnson is not true
sportsman, and for that reason Is not
entitled to the treatment accorded un-
der the rule to true sportsman. Per-
sonally. / do not expect a better fight
from him than that put up by Jack
between myself and Johnson and / am
positive that l will finish his career
as a fighter on the afternoon of July
4, 1910.
Just one more word. Regarding the
making Of this match, and libe'ous and
malicious fabrications of some sporting
writer's. who feel sore because their
favorite promoter did not land the
match, let me tell you that 1t is all
bosh. The report of any secret agree
ment between Johnson and myself is
so ridiculous that 1 DO not even deem
it worthy of contradiction. Jack Glea-
son and Tex Richard are men that
need no coaching from any rival. nor
are they in need IF any financial aid
to promote a 100000 affair. AS for
myself, I never was even accused OF
any wrongdoing, much less take part
in anything that was not absolutely
on the level.
am feeling, not as well, but much
better than 7 ever did in all nv career
and would not enter the ring If had
THE LEAST DOUBT ABOUT THE
OUTCOME
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

BUFFALO, n. Y, Dec. 31.-Bllly
foull. of Penn, who holds the inter-
collegiate mile record and is the fast
est mile runner in America, will run
MS first race since his record race at
cambridge, Mass, last spring, when
lie goes against some of the best III
me east at Buffalo today.
Not since~his school days, and the
natter part of them, has he competed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

cessor and thus make our attitude to.
ward boxing as iherai as it is towar.
football
l am not arguing against football
understand. l have had II years OF
it-five of which were in Methods,
college. l believe trat about three
years of that rough stuff is better f,
young man thar all he can get frr...
books. A few in ,ck u.s and broken
limbs will fit him best of all f.,r the
battle Of life.
In America, whore we work for our
living, I have not found the pathway
strewn with flowe-s and i. takes game
ness to win everything worth winning.
This gameness Is better developed by
the sturdy branches of athletics than
by any other method.
Football is all rigEt-.three years IF
it-and so is boxIrs,. l contend that If
every young man 3atWeen Is and 2,
years were forced - train carefully
and for each of the three years play
ten rough games % football, box ten
finish prize fights or wrestle as many
matches, Americ:, would SION have
fewer cigarette and drug fiends, fever
drunkards and better citizens
Let us admit thar i is always hon
orable, in coliega or nut III wo~x
honora5ly for money. Let us put Il
prize on development CT both char
acter and physique. Let us do away
with ignorance aui prejudice Let us
most of all wipe the grafters and po-
litical microbes out of our office chairs
and give all clean sports a full swing
and an equal chance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

| being criticized, except compete in
athletics. l have been informed that
| Billy Sunday refused to preach the
doctrine of hell and cows- dica to his
victims until they contributed $500
But it is unlawful In mos: states fer
Jeffries to box with padded gloves for
ten times that amount. It all depends
On who gets the prize, and here is
where I touch on college athletics
Football and Other Athletics.
Football is the great college sport
and draws the elite and religious at
Ia high price, and in the absence of
the bull fight comes nearer satisfying
the appetite for gore. Football is ten
times harder. a hundred times more
rough and dangerous -i:an boxing,
wrestling or sharp sword fencing So
ciety smiles at football for several
reasons. In the first place. the plav-
ers' prize consists of bare subsist-
ence except subrosa. Ir ne secon1
r'sce, it CRATES on peori.'s nerves tc
sse a man knocked down in the open
even with his .a;'s. but if ten men
h.lO fellow down 50 that you can't
SEQ him, while the eleventh nan
kicks him into irscnsibil;tv, YOU don't
half mind the simple ordeal of seeing
the unfortunate crrrlcd from the field
Another man is ~ub3ti-ute as liv-
ing sacrifice. ana the game goes on
Perhaps it would be well for boxin;,
if similar sIua1 Of substitutes
should be held real = fill the va
cancy as often 2s n.ar is knocked
out. We might forget each unfortu-
nate in watching the fate Of his sues.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31
Entertain $500" Cub.

DAYTON. Wash. Dec. 3o.-(Special)
VT. ard Mrs. Leon r. Kenwor+h en-
tertaired the 800" club OF their beau
tiful home on Syndicate Hill last even
ing. Six tables of 500 were played
during the evening. a light lunch was
served at IL. The rooms were taste
fully arranged for the occasion. the
colors Of the club BEING used pro-
fuse'y in the decorative scheme. Twen-
ty-five members were present and n
number OF visitors who are home to
spend the HOLIDAYS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

| can Motor Car Manufacturers asSo-
citation is making even greater efforts
than ever to make this years event q
great social success. The show com
nights for the formal reception OF
civic and national dignitaries, club
men, engineers and society people.
The Palace show will open to the
public each day from a. m. to 10: 80
.. m. On Saturday night, a smoker
will be given at the Automobile club
of America, as was the case last year,
to all Grand Central Palace show ex-
hibitions of motor cars and accesso-
ries Saturday night has been termed
Army and Navy night" by the
show committee, and General Leonard
"A. Wood, commander of the depart
ment of the east, together with Off
GERS attached to Forts Hamilton,
Wadsworth, Schuyler and Governors
Island, have been invited to attend as
have members of the Army and Navy
club. On Monday, Jan. 3, the New
York Automobile Trade association
will hold it's annual meeting at u
o'clock at the Manhattan hotel. En-
gineers' Night is scheduled for Mon
day and invitations have been ex-
tended to officers of the Engineers
club and various engineering sOcie-
ties, including the Society of Automo-
bile Engineers.
AS at past shows Of the A. M. G. M.
A., Tuesday has been set aside as So
ciety day and the admission will be
raised from fifty cents to one dollar.
The annual meeting of the Society of
Automobile Engineers will be held
on Tuesday at 10 a. m, followed by
it's annual dinner at p. m, both
events being held at the Automobile
Club of America.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

made abroad an effort has been made
to make some of the decorations really
international in character, and Italy,
France, and Germany have been
searched for little floral novelties that
are in a way symbolical Of the coun-
tries the cars represent.
Outside of the trellis garden idea.
the decorative scheme involves a lat
tice and landscape effect, with the
whole set forth by tens Of thousands
of glittering lights and huge chande-
liers or electric balls of fire which will
throw the pictorial scenes and the
cars themselves into high relief.
Annual meetings and dinners Of
many associations allied with the mo-
tor car industry are scheduled for the
week of the Tenth International Auto
mobile show. One of the most i'm
portant meetings is that of the Manu-
facturers' Contest association, which
VIII De neIO at the MdIHdltdii I1otci,
Friday evening, Jan. 7. This is, the
first annual meeting of the association
since it's formation, nearly year ago.
President Benjamin Driscoe will pre-
side and make his first annual report,
telling what the association has ac-
complished for it's members in all
manner of contests. 1t is also likely
that at that time next years campaign
will be mapped out.
Another meeting of Importance
which will be held this year for the
first time during the Grand Central
Palace show is that of the motor and
accessory manufacturers. This Or
ganization of makers of parts and ac-
cessories will hold it's annual meeting
at p m. Wednesday, Jan. 5, at the
Waldorf Astoria hotel, followed by the
annual dinner at 1870 o'clock.
The show committee of the Ameri-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31
Novel Plans for the Empire Theater
Season.
OUTCOME

With the announcement Of the flEai
plans for the present Empire theater
season, Charles Frehman ey1iently has
an eye on the boat that will take him
to London and to conqucsts new.
The final stroke in Mr Frohman's
present American season viii be SER
les of special productions acted at the
Empire theater by a company organ
lied solely for this purpose. There will
be no star at the head of this company.
Certain plays in which Mr. Frohman is
interested, because he believes they
possess certain values, will be given ON
their own accounts, in a way that it is
the stock company system and the
star system. The first of such pro-
auctions will be comedy performance
at the Empire theater on Monday
March 2S
The first of Mr.. Frohman's announce
ments is that Miss Maude Adams sea-
son at the Empire theater in What
Every Woman Knows will end on
Saturday, January Is. On the follow
ing Monday Sir Charles Wyndham and
Miss Mary Moore, who arrived from
England December "a on the Lusitania,
will give the first of sixteen perform
ances of 1.-THE Mollusc" This engage
ment will constitute Sir Charles Wynd-
hams farewell appearance on the New
York stage. The distinguished actor,
famous as one of the most charming
personalities on the present English
speaking stage, as well as for a long
line of acting achievements, conspicu-
ously an incompatible David Garrick,
will pass his seventy third birthday in
America next March.
The Empire theater season Of Sir
Charles and Miss Mary Moore in THE
Mollusc" win end on Saturday. January
90, after which the actor win set out on
a farewell tour on the American stage.
Monday. January 81, New York will
have it's first glimpse of Miss Ethel
Barrymore in Pinero's mid Channel"
where she takes the role of Zoe Blum
dell.
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the long distance running game last
season will compete in the coming
events. Many of the foreign runners
Who helped make sport history last
year are to arrive in this country
shortly. In fact, two OF them are here
low. John Svanberg, the Swede who
Won several races last year, and Henri
st. Yves, the Frenchman, establisher
Of several worlds records, arrived re-
Gently IN splendid shape and will start
training Immediately. Pietri Dorando.
the Italian, who is now III England,
-unek in January.
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If the plans of the eastern promo
ters do not fall through, professional
athletics will be given a big boom
within the next few weeks. A short
time ago it looked as if there would
be nothing doing for the money
chasers but the wind shifted, and the
skies are beginning to shine again. In
New York three big professional races
are on the program to be run off be-
tween now and the LIST of February,
and several long and short distance
events are carded to be held in Jersey
sionaI Marathoners who took part in
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

NEW YORK, Dec 31-Wfth pri-
'@le view this afternoon, to be followed
oE the formal public opening at
Oclock this evening, what is in many
respects the greatest automobile show
ever held anywhere was inaugurated In
1fand Central Palace. All the new
models produced by members OF the
american Motor Car Manufacturers
association are on exhibition, in set
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31
OPEN GREAT
AUTO SHOW

ting more beautiful than ever bef5re
attempted.
Recognizing the fact that the motoT
car is essentially an outdoor vehicle,
the decorators have packed the cars
in a huge trellis garden or. gigantic
arbor which is entwined with climb
ing plants. beautiful flowers, singing
birds and FLASHING PAINS
AS many of the cars exhibited are
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31
Jeff Tells How He
Feels About Match
In Retirement Over Five Years.

r In Retirement Over Five Years.
Shortly after l retired Kid Eagan, an
old friend, came to me and made me an
offer which would have meant thous-
ands of dollars to me, to tour the south
ern country. He proposed to carry
large tent, such as circuses use, and
was we'll backed financially. He re-
fused to believe me when I turned
retired.
A few weeks later again heard from
Eagan. This time from Reno, New His
message informed me that inasmuch as
I had retired from the ring game, the
championship belonged to no one in
particular. He asked me if / should
object to have him stage a battle, be-
tween two good heavyweights and bill
it for the championship. 1 wired him
to go ahead with his plan and that if
I could be of any service to him out
side of fighting myself, to command
me.
few days later 1 again heard from
Eagan and he called upon me to act as
the third man in the ring between Jack
Root and Marvin Hart, the bout he had
chosen for the heavyweight champion
l.; 70 raF
cree and 1 served as the third man in
the ring as I had promised.
That's where all the original talk
comes from about me making Hart
present of the title. 1 did nothing of
the kind, nor had 1 any right to make
presents of that kind. But I refereed
the bout and after Hart disposed of
Root in the twelfth round 1 declared
Hart the heavyweight champion.
Since that time I have refused over
100000 in purse offers and theatrical
engagements. 1 had made up my mind
absolutely to stay retired and no
amount of money would swerve me. l
also at different times was offered
money to say that 1 might fight So
and-so, with view of boosting some
fight and declined these offers along
with the rest. AT different times sport
writer's would print stuff about me,
giving reasons of my retirement and
some of them would write a story
with a view of touching my pride. and
have me come out and say that it was
not SO and to prove it make match.
However, I would not fall for. that
kind of stuff, and while 1 will always
remember them for what they did to
me. / sometimes enjoyed the humor OF
the situation.
Tells Why He Comes Back.
Only once did / give any promoter
tbe least encouragement, and that was
to Jim Cogroth, at the time he had a
fight billed between Bill Squires and
Tommy Burns. / had previously re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for my share
+, fight Squres, when one day Cof-
roth came to my home and after some /
talk asked me fat-footed
If would fight Squires, under any
and for any amount l
thought the matter over a few min
utes and then gave him my answer.
which was: "Jf Squires or any other
foreigner wins the heavyweight title.
T viii return to the ring and bring 1t :
hack to America. Burns defeated
snrires and that ended the matter.
Iater I was again approached with a
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-31

I Neither is it an evidence of retro
gression, for San Francisco, Los An
.geles, New Orleans, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Kansas City and
Memphis compare favorably with
Cleveland, Chicago. New York and
/ Indianapolis in the matter of vice. I'M
morality and political rottenness.
Men Hungry for Athletics.
| Follow the matter to solution, and it
means that athletics. when properly
conducted whether amateur or pro-
fessional, occupy tender spot in the
| heart of every sane and balanced
man. Men are hungry for it and they
are bound to have it at any price.
They vote for it generally, but they get
Hubbard says, "Civilization is advanz
cling as rapidly as the reformers will
allow it,
The trouble is that we vote for a
lot of boneheads with itching palms to
! fill our legislative and imperial chairs,
and when the political parasites begin
to suck the life blood out of the pub
lie treasury, either from graftitis or
coWardHis, the officials pipe at the
beckon of some fanatic and refuse to
stand for your rights and mine.
The consequence is that boxing is
tabooed in the majority of states in
the Union. Possibly graftitis and COW
arditis don't embrace the entire num-
Der who object to boxing, but the
remaining small percentage is so CO.
piously endowed with self satisfied
ignorance that they are easily desig-
mated
Some day the American spirit will
assert itself and refuse longer to SUBJ
nit to the dogmatic suppression of
fanatics and political parasites, and
express themselves with power. Then
athletics will be free to all and plen-
tiful
College professors have often writ
ten me pathetically and imploringly
about the indiscretion of leaving medi-
cine, even temporarily, for the dis
graceful career of a professional ath-
lete. These same men invariably. ar-
ter visit to the dressing rooms of
the JeffriesGotch troupe, would ex-
press themselves astonished at the
unexpected intelligence and refine
nent of these great athletes
Many people think that a boxer or
wrestler is almost human. AS mat
ter of fact. the greatest athletes of to-
! day are either college or professional
men, or men who have been even bet
ter taught by the school of travel and
experience. You will be astonished at
the business ability and frugal habits
OF the modern great athlete. He no
longer courts the hangerson or wastes
his time and money in a booze empo-
rium trying to make himself a good
Fellow with a lot of buns. Fe knows
nov that knockers are better than
benefits. and puts his money in alfal-
Ia or corn land. The study of the mod
ern athlete is interesting as well as
elevating.
Funny it is that man can d, any
thing in the world for a prize without
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feated Heavyweight Champion)
Right at the beginning 1 want to
repeat what 1 have so often said, that
if 1 figured Jack johnson had even an
outside chance to defeat me 1 would
not consider the match for a moment
regardless of the purse offered.
l think true sportsman should al
ways enter into a contest with just a
little doubt as to the outcome When l
fought Bob Fitzsimmons the first time
possessed all the confidence in the
doubt, which makes you realize that
there is to be a real test
When 1 fought Tom Sharkey 1 en-
joyed his gameness and admired him
for his grit in coming back for more
and still more punishment. To this
day L like Tom, because he gave his
friends a run for their money and
handed me the best he had in his pug
ilistic shop.
Jim Corbett, than whom there never
lived a greater exponent of the manly
art of self defense, was elusive for
90 rounds. Corbett was speedy and his
tantalizing blows, while not of the trip
hammer variety, kept coming SO fast
that 1 was puzzled for some time
like Corbett for his wonderful ring gen.
eralship and sincerity
Gus Rubin? Well, the Akron giant
was overmatched and was too young i'll
the game to battle with a seasoned
warrior. But he deserved credit for the
ambition he possessed to annex the
heavyweight title.
My last fight was with Jack Munroe
l never did think that he had any right
to be taken seriously and to this day
am sorry that l bowed to public de-
mand and gave him a match. l said all
the time that Munroe was overrated
and that our little affair at Butte was
grossly exaggerated, to say the least.
hated to enter the ring at San Fran
cisco that night, for 1 felt in my heart
that Munroe could not give me*a con-
test and that the public would not get
a run for their money in such one
sided exhibition.
Munroe Fight Disguised Him.
In fact, the Munroe fight SO Disguised
me that I Immediately made up my
mind to retire. My friends talked me
out of this idea for a short time, on the
plea that some day, somewhere, there
would pop up a likely candidate for the
title held; that would yet have am
pie time to defend it. Shortly after
this toured the country with my show:
"Davy Crockett" I met nearly all the
leading sport writer's and sporting Gel
ebrities throughout the country and
discussed my intention to retire many
times.
To make the long story short at the
end of the season, at a little dinner
given me at the College Inn, Chicago al
which were present Lou Houseman'
then the sporting editor Of the inter-
Ocean and George Siler, fight critic OF
the Chicago Tribune, I announced my
positive retirement. Next day the news
was flashed all over the country, believ-
ed by some and doubted by others
might even add that it was double ana
triple doubted by lot IF them. But III
my own mind there was no oouDt'