The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-13

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Sporting Club declared the other day that
Johnson's failure to live up to his agree
ment was equal to FORGETTING the cham
pionship. OF course this doesn't go with
the fight fans here. for we only call men
champions who win their titles by battling
in tho ring. Lapgford 10 a good stu
fighter. but he's never been fully tried
out by any game white top notcher. He
has a long list OF victories over second
raters. II Langford and Jeanette are
matched for twenty rounds in Europe
the winner vii! certainly be in line TOT
top honors; but where would either OF
these colored fighters be with a man like
Jeffries when at his best?
Jeanette, a negro, has been cutting
some ice in Paris lately by beating all
corners. including Sam McVey and SANDY
Ferguson, but his record Is not 30 long
defeated by Jack johnson In fifteen
rounds and by Sam Langford in the same
length OF time. Jeanette fought Lang
ford four times. He won the first fight:
Langford won the second. while the third
and fourth We're drawn battles.
has met johnson in four mills. III frst
went three rounds with no decision.
johnson lost the second on a foul. the
third was another no decision affair and
the fourth was Won by the present cham
pion. Jeannette, like Iangford. has never
been up against a topnotch white man.
so we cannot tell how game he really is.
The records of Langford and Jeannette
do not show that Johnson ~outclasses
either Of them to any extent.
They are offering n 10000 purse Tor
johnson and Jeanette for a twenty
round bout in Paris. but johnson won't
accept. az he is not in proper condlaon;
He will probably have another six round
I, Tn.u Ill IanL nfp~nn hnUavar "a thaV
seem to understand each other very well.
II Johnson keeps up his present pace
Stanley Ketchel will be the heavyweight
champion OF the world next fall. How
that old grape juice does knock out the
colored scrappers when they start to hight
1t good and hard!
ASK Sam MoVey about gay life in Paris.
He was the goods and the idol Of the
French sports until he met Jeanette and
was put away in a forty-nine round
smuggling mill. They have a way OF
killing colored scrappers with kindness
on the other side. as johnson. Langford
and Jeanette may discover too late.
aIf there ever was n negro who could
scrap like a bulldog IL was Joe Walcott,
the Giant Killer; but when things weren't
going his way he used to lie down quickly.
His seconds had a hard time to keep him
in the ring when he was defeated by Kid
Lavigne in fifteen rounds at Maspeth in
lNhO, GSl lWo CuI lllCt ho 'oppCN
L.avigne in twelve rounds in Frisco.
Don't you remember how Walcott quit
GOLD to Tony West in Madison Square
Garden in the eleventh round thought
! he had West beaten to a standstil when
suddenly Joe took to the woods and re-
fused to &C on. There may have been some
financial reason for this action. To me
II looked like the ravest kind OF a fake.
West and Walcott fought six times. The
first fight was won by Joe in three rounds,
the second was a nineteen round draw
West won the third in twenty rounds,
the fourth was a six round bout with no
verdict. Walcott quit In the fifth and won
the sixth in fifteen rounds.
-One night Walcott sent Mysterious
Billy Smith into dreamland at the Broad
way A. c. 1t was q corking Knockout
and Smith did not come to for at least
ten minutes. BY that time the crowd had
left the building and many OF the lights
about in a half dazed sort of way and
asked one OF his seconds IL he had been
knocked out.
Sure thing, Billy, replied the handler.
Where's that black demon?' de-
manded the Mysterious One as he jumped
to his feet.
Hes down in his dressing room
putting on his street clothes was the
smith jumped through the ropes and
started for Walcotts room, swearing like
a pirate. uu. .uz;r,
Walcott had locked. Walcott's seconds
grabbed Smith Inc held him tight while
the Giant Killer, half dressed. ran out
into the street. Smith wanted to fight
him rough and tumble. but the negro
got way.
Smith and walcott met in the ring five
times. The first bout was a fifteen round
draw. the second vas a twenty-five round
draw. Smith won the third in twenty
rounds. the fourth went to Walcott on a
foul. who also won the fifth In four rounds.
when Billy was all in.
-Walcott knocked out Some good men.
including Dick O'Brien. Tom Tracey.
Australian Jimmy Ryan, Dan Creedon,
Joe Choynski. Jimmy Handler and Kid
Carter. He lost to George Gardner.
Frank Childs. Sandy Ferguson. Mike
Harris and others. but he never stood
the gaf in a gruelling mill.
Young Peter Jackson has done some
tall scrapping since 1905. when he defeated
another colored gentleman. known as
Prof. SNOWFALL. Young Peter met Lang
ford half a dozen times. He lost the first
bout in fifteen rounds. also the next W
each Of similar length. He won the
fourth in five rounds, Langford was the
Jackson won the sixth in twenty. Young
Peter polished of Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien in thirteen rounds and was later
defeated by the latter in ten. He is now
under the management OF Sam Fitzpat-
J rick. who piloted Jack johnson to the
championship. Fitzpatrick is grooming
Jackson for n fight with johnson and
hopes to square
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