The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-11
JOHNSON CAN
WHIP JEFFRIES
Statement by Negroes Manager Is
That Johnson Will Make Jeff
Look Slow.
(By Geo. Little, Manager and Backor
OF Jack Johnson

Wy bfOs I>ilNltt bldudktI dllO bdChtI
OF Jack Johnson
know that Jack Johnson will whip
JenTieS. ] am going TO oct my money
on him, | have known Johnson for
many years | have known many 9th
er fighters. / believe that Johnson
is the highest development in the way
of heavyweight fighter that a ring
has ever seen.
| Ike 10 think OF 1t In this way:
The race horses of the twentieth CEN
tury are the fastest ever known.
Some year some runner breaks all ex-
listing records, and men have been
racing on foot throughout the history
of the world We are at the very
highest point of development In many
directions. And | class Jack Johnson
at the front OF this development He's
the twentieth centurys best IN his line
and no fighter in modern history. bcs
lieve. has ever been as quick, clever.
or powerful as this wonderful negro.
| know Jack viii make JeffrieS look
like a hitching post so far as quick
ness is concerned. He has as much
power in his blows as Jeffries and no
can get out of JeT's way Jeff VIII
not be able TO get out of the way of
Johnson
am worrying because / fear that
Johnson VIII kill Jeffries. This Is no
joke,
johnson Hard Worker.
Johnson has always been a clean,
hard-workinS boy. AS lad he work
ed for Swedc milkman In Galveston
for 10 cents per week His brother
told me that was Jacks first salary
The boy worked sixteen hours a day
and one day got mad at his employer
threw bricks at him and ran home
Tho Swede went TO Jacks mother and
told her that If Jack would come back
he would pay him 90 cents per week
So Jack patched mp his troubles and
went back to the milkman
The first fight Johnson ever had
was down in Galveston. There was
big crowd present and Jack won
His share of the gate receipts was
just 81 and he had to pay the referee
% cents out Of his winnings Another
time, in battle royal at Springfield.
Ill. Jack laid out six negroes and re-
celved purse of 81 -25
How Johnson ever lived In those
days | do not know. He ate so much
that he was fired out of every board
ing house he entered. He could clean
up a free lunch counter in ten min.
utes. but what made the bartender
sore was that he wouldn't drink the
beer he ordered TO gain admission to
the free lunch ] never saw a man
eat so much as Johnson does now.
have seen him eat three spring chick
ems and twenty biscuits and drink two
quarts of water at one sitting.
Johnson has never been a rowdy,
AS a boy he lived at home His moth
er taught him how 10 cook and there
is nothing that he likes to do now
better than knead up batch of dough
for soda biscuits. He can bake bread
and cake and his corn cake would
make a boy strike his dad When
Johnson roasts "a chicken you can be
sure that 1t viii be dead right. All
these little things show that Johnson
Is not an accident as fighter but has
come to it by right living and careful
physical Development
| admit that Jack doesn't like JEFF
fries We'll. Jeffries doesn't like him
There will be hatred behind the blow,
en- both sides It viii be a hard fight
But-heres the point, A champion
fighter who has once closed his career
never comes back JeiTries can't 1t
isn't i'm him any more
Johnson has been meeting all COM
ers in theaters all over the country
"Will he hurt me?" asked huge boil
ermaker Of me when he came TO make
match. He was as big as an OK. NO.
he wont hurt YOU" ] answered. "but
YOU &C in and try to hurt him Hit as
hard as YOU can" For many months
Johnson has been meeting mon like
that, while JeGiries, for several years,
has had nothing TO do with the ring
Johnson is in the pink OF perfection.
JcffTies car never be what he was
and think that The Johnson of today
could have whipped Jeflries Of seven
years ago.