The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-26

| (Dick) Kain. sporting editor OF The
Philadelphia Record. one OF the coun-
try's greatest authorities on pug1lism.
and one who fearlcssly expresses him
self, regardless of public opinion:
After seeing Stanley Ketchel beat
Jack OBrien in Jig time at the Ma
tional Athletic club the bulk of the big
audience came away with the idea
firmly fixed in their minds that here
was the very man they had been look
ing for to win the championship from
Jack Johnson. Their wish was In
many cases father To the thought. for
there seems to be on every hand the
| greatest desire to nave the big Texan
whipped as quickly as possible.
"Ketche MAJ beat Johnson If they
ever meet in the ring. but his show
Ing with O'Brien as compared with
the showing OF Johnson would not
be a very good foundation on which to
place big bet Ketchei took three
rounds TO stop O'Brien. while Johnson
did not stop the white Jack in six
rounds True enough; but Johnson
showed very plainly that he could have
stopped OBrien In one round nad he
tried. Perhaps if the conditions had
been the same Johnson would have
done So
johnson did not train minute to
meet O'Brien. Possibly he did not
have to, under the terms on which the
match might have been made. The
terms of the Johnson-O'Brie match
have never all been made public 1t
was generally understood that Johnson
was to get $5.100 for his end of that
match and O'Bricn worked on per-
centage. Johnson has shown more
than once in his business transactions
that, no matter what else he may be,
he is not a fool
johnson Good Business Man.
Knowing that Johnson was not a
fool when 1t comes to money matters,
there were a lot of people who won
dered why Johnson agreed to take the
paltry guarantee OF $4,000 to meet
O'Brien in this city. where $4,000
house was possible and where ne and
not O'BTien was the card. owing TO the
fact that O'Brien had recently been
whipped by Ketchel in New York,
while Johnson was making his first
appearance in public since he mad won
the championship by whipping Tommy
Burns In Australia.
Under these conditions Johnson
was worth the big end of the money,
and no one knew this better than
Jack Johnson. Well, what is the an
swcr? 1t may not be the correct an
swer, but there is a story going the
rounds downtown among the colored
sporting men who lost money betting
on Johnson. that the champion got s5,-
100 for boxing with O'Brien. and that
he got $4,000 extra for not knocking
Johnson out. The story may not be
true, but the financial end would fig
ure up just about what would be COM
Ing to johnson as his share Of the
receipts. which were a shade over
$4,000. One Of the men who
is telling around that Johnson got So
900 for not knocking out OiBrien,
states that Johnson told the story
himself, and gave that as his reason
for not extending himself when the
men met recently in this city.
Those who saw the Johnson-O Brien
contest could see that the black cham.
pion was not extending himself, for he
Knocked O'Brien down and almost
through the ropes with one punch In
the first round, and then did practical
ly nothing for the rest OF time till the
NTH, when he again hit O'Brien hard,
knocking him to the floor and closing
one OF the white fighters eyes com
pletely. The fact that John was in
poor condition. hog fat and twenty
pounds at least overweight. caused
some to think that it was this lack of
condition which tied Johnson up, but
there was abundant evidence that
even as he was, he was not trying to
go his best pace. for the work he did
was nothing like that which he could
and did do on other occasions in this
city
ketcheI Too Light.
in his match with O'Brien, Ketch.
ell showed that he is a fast and ter
ribly hard hitter, but it takes more
than that to make a great fighter. He
fights like Terry McGoyern did, and
something on the same style that
Sullivan used when he was in mis-
prime. Just slam, bang, smash. hit
Wherever you can. with the right hand
dong the most execution. Long be-
fore any of the present-day fighters
were born 1t was proven that, other
things being equal, a left-hand straight
puncher would whip right-hand
s"inger, and there has never been
any fighter produced In the ring in the
last twenty-five years VINO has proven
the fallacy OF that theory.
1T is a matter of ring history Just
what happened when Sullivan stacked
up against really good left-hand.
straight puncher. Terry McGovern's
finish came In one round when ne
stacked up against Young Corbett a
man who was a quicker and cleaner
hitter than himself, and who bent him