The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-26
SPORT.
JOCKEY J. LEE KEEPS ON WIN
MING.

MING.
A horse is not color preudiced.. He
will run as fast for black boy as he
will for any other, be he white, brown
or green or what not. The newspaper
correspondents can tell their windy
tales but the horse does not take any
note of that He runs. Writers of
sporting news for several of the larg
est papers in the country are con-
tinually going ont of their way to
cTiticise Lee, and to pronounce him
a has been, but the reports show that
he keeps winning. He did in the
South on all the tracts; he did in the
middle West; he did it in the East
among the best riders in the country,
and he is doing it on the coast every
day. Some others will Outrank him
in the number of races won, but Lee
will outrank them all when the
amount of money won is taken into
consideration The men who own
horses want them to win, and they
get Lee Notwithstanding he is as black
as a piece of coal, and they, the own
ers. are satisfied On Monday, Feb
ruary %, he carried off the honors in
the California Derby with High Pri-
vate The purse netted $4,000 to
the winner This is avery popular
event and every boy wanted to VIM
but Lee decided that it was his and
went after it the way to get it.
Managers, get your ball teams to-
gether; the park will be ready for
you. Your cry of no where to play
has been heard and the answer is
forthcoming. Now get busy and get
your men together; there will be plen-
ty of foes to fight Nothing will be
left undone to accommodate you.
You can send your matter to the
Sporting Editor of the Nashville Globe
and we will be glad to publish the
same.
Bill Curtis writing in the Chicago
Tribune says in part the following:
But listen to what Jeffries himself
has to say on the subject.
johnson has been credited with
talking a whole lot-and much of it
is nonsense. The climax came when
he said that he would insist on a
colored referee. What has Johnson
got to say, anyway, in case he gets a
chance at the real heavyweight cham
pionship? He does not hold it. l
never was beaten for the champion
ship, and have right to name the
terms, providing they are fair-if |
box again"
Well, we are glad to see Jeffries
waking himself up We can't take
everything that he says as a Supreme
court decision, however He says he
never lost the championship: that is
true, so far as we know. But it was
printed that Jeffries had turned his
championship over to one Burns. JEFF
fries never denied this, although there
was no secret about what Burns
claimed.
Under these circumstances we think
that when Johnson fought Burns, I'M
der adverse conditions, for the cham
pionship that the victory of the black
man looks pretty good as a claim for
the championship, and we cannot lis
ten to this Indian giver sort of dope.
AS matters stand at the present time,
Jack Johnson is the champion heavy
weight, Jeffries to the contrary not
withstanding.
Every veteran in the world has the
right to all the glory which remem-
ORANGES of his past valor bring to him,
but we cannot see why veteran has
any right to come forward again and
say he retains anything which he has
won but has not kept by effort.
We are of the opinion that Johnson
would give Jeffries the fight of his life.
This opinion may be wrong, but if
Jeffries has really retired from the
ring he should be glad to greet new
champion If he has not really re
tired ne should come forward and
make a match with Johnson
At the present time Johnson is the
champion, and until Jeffries drives
him through the ropes in ring con
test we shall consider the colored mar
as such. Conversation is the easiest
thing in the world to get and The
poorest thing to bet on Jeffries' tall
about his still being champion sounds
to us like press work. If he can bea
Johnson, now is the time to do it
Otherwise he should hold his peace.