The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-08
(By C. E. Van Loan,)

few nights ago flatnoscd Bcs'
| ton darkey beat flat-headed York
shireman In four rounds before the
| National Sporting club in London. 1t
wasn't much of a fight. as fights go In
this country. They would have whis-
tied 1.-THE Merry Widow" had 1t taken
place at the Long Aero and howled for
the main event at the Fairmont. Yet.
after the Yorkshire clodhopper went
to bye-bye, Lord Lonsdale. mentioned
In the cable dispatches MS the proudest
peer in all England" took the Amerl-
can negro by the hand and congratu'
lated him on his glorious victory.
Is II any wonder that our black
heavyweIghts like to fight in England?
II the proudest peer in England mere
ly shook Langford by the hand and
warmly congratulated him. probably
the peers who were not so proud hug
ged nIm and patted him on the back.
Something will have to be done about
this. The peers are spelling our black
fighters and filling their heads with
all sorts of nonsense. Donsdale Is
old enough to know better.
And not only the black lighters,
either. Tommy Burns, always quiet,
taciturn sort Of chap, but for the
most part companIonable and friend
ly. went to England. He became the
idol OF the sporting noblemen, who
we're proud to be seen on the street
with the pudgy little Canuck. and. as
a result, they spoiled him and swelled
HIS head until he believed himself to
be the greatest fighter in the world.
and the swelling lasted until Johnson
laDced it with a few uppercuts and
dropped Mr. Burns back where he be
longs. among the mediocre fighters
London has always been fight crazy.
The pity Is that men who support
boxing SO royalty should, never draw
anything but a fourth rate show. The
little theater of the National Sporting
club. where the fights take place, holds
DO more than few hundred men, who
pay anywhere from $40 to $50 for
seat In larger hail. 1t Is nard to
calculate just how much money
rafting good match ought to draw. A
man who pays $50 for his ring-side
seat should have run for his money,
with two men In the fight.
Whenever they manage to secure a
good American boxer he Is invariably
matched against dub like Moir OF
Hague, and a lopsided fight results,
with the end In sight from the open
ing tap Of the gong Our English
brethren deserve better than this, they
do. old chap. really, for they are-er
keen spawtsmen, don't you know
er-keen spawtsmen and-er-all that
sawt Of thing,
We may send 'em some Of our good
fighters In the near future, II Lord
Lonsdale will promise not to climb
into the r1ng and embrace them.
Sam Langford's first move after his
little exercise canter with the York
shire fatty was to claim the right to
dictate terms to Jack Johnson Lord
Lonsdale and few other sportsmen
had informed him that he had won
the heavyweight championship of the
world by trimming the poor Hague.
According to the British way OF
looking at things, Johnson blew" his
title when he failed to put In an ap-
pearance and fight Langford in Eng
land, II we began taking something
away from Johnson every time ne re-
pudiated an agreement. went back on
his word OF did something which
could be regarded as breach of bust
ness honesty, We would soon have the
Galveston negro trimmed down to the
gold filings In his teeth.