The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-28
WHY JOHNSON IF
NOT LANGFORD?
Why Is Stanley KetChel Side
stepping Bout With the
Chunky Black?
INTEREST IS NOW TAGGING
JOHNSON MUST GET READY FOR
AL KAUFMAN.
BY ED w. SMITH.

Chicago. Aug. Eff not Sam Lang
ford why Jack Johnson:
VIII Stanley Ketchel arise and an
swer that question. please;
If the gladiator boss of the white
middleweiEht division fears the black,
what use is there going against the big
aeer and even more terrible black
known as Johnson?
It Laugford and Johnson We're to boN
tomorrow. with both men in good con
dition. YOU couldn't give Langford more
than a good outside chance of winning,
could you?
Certainly not If one must figure
johnson much the better where then
does Ketchel come i'm to fight Johnson
next month? And is he really going 10
fight johnson? The long line of Iu2s-
tons that followed in the present wake
of the middle west champion naturally
suggests another.
What is the reason for all the myS-
terry about the Netchel-Langtord
match? If KetcheI dunks the Langforj
match-aud the American has taken
the stand from the start that he never
intended to go through with the match
at this time-he will have increased lis
popularity Had he drawn the color
line right away and said he did not IN
tend to bother Laugford at all, nob91y
would have thought much the less Of
Ketchel for taking the stand. But Il
make the match and then fool around
until promoters have lost all faith j.
going bit too far.
The chief chances are that ketvae
found some time ago that he could MOI
get into the right sort of condition tcI
Langford. His lucky victory ever
4 hs4r hls1 for
him had ne screwed up his courage d
little tighter. evidently sObeTed KetChel
a bit. realizing, as he must have done
that he had retained his title by Il
lucky combination of circumstances.
Papke's lack of aggTessiveness- called
by some by another name. being
among the contributOTy details.
Ketchel Is Wiser Now.
KetcheI is not likely to Zoe caught
mapping that way again. for II the
youug man has not lost his head en-
tirelv over recent successes he must
realize that he had the closest of calls,
and that he would not escape that way
again i'm twenty fights. He will need
to be i'm the grandest shape of his ca
reer to stand the ghost of chance
with the giant negro, and even if he
gets into that shape and the Johnson
chap is half good. he cannot be given
better than an outside nance of Win
ming.
I'm the meantime Johnson has a pu2-
..Ic of his own to solve. He must get
into pretty good shape for Al Kauf-
man i'm a very short space of time, and
il is a matter of doubt if he can do it.
He scarcely has trained a day since his
match in Australia last December with
Tommy Burns. and must necessarily
need lots of attention. He hasn't time
TO go that way again between now and
the time set for the fight and even If
il IS only ten rounds. Johnson is TAX
ing the same sort of a chance that
Eptchei did when he entered the ring
out Of shape to iEht Billy Papke, But
the chances are that Kaufman viii lot
show much better against Johnson than
the disappointing Illinois fighter did
against Ketchel. That's the way he
fighting game goes.