The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-19
GREAT INTEREST IN OUTCOME OF O'BRIEN
 JOHNSON FIGHT TONIGHT
Both Men in Pink of Condition and Exciting Mill is Predicted.
Johnson Sure He'll Wallop the Quaker into State of Inactivity Before the Six Rounds are licked Off, O'Brien Doesn't Think the Fig Black Man Has it in Him=-What Each Man Has Done.

four rounds. while O'Brien has stopped the same man in three. Johnson has put Morris Harris. a big negro. away in one round. while the latter has stayed six rounds with Philadelphia Jack. Johnson and Young Peter Jack son have boxed twelve rounds to a draw and O'Brien has earned 8 decis- ion over Jackson in a ten round con- test. When Fftzsimmons was all in Johnson stopped him in two rounds while more than a year previous O'Brien made Lanky Bob quit in thir- teen rounds on the Coast. O'Brien knocked Al Kaufman out in seventeen rounds in 1905. the only defeat Kauf- man ever sustained. but the latter has never been able to secure a match with the present heavyweight champion.
 There is one line. however, that can be used. and that is through Burns. O'Brien boxed a twenty round draw with Burns and later receiving the double cross. Philadelphia Jack was beaten by Burns at the end of another twenty round bout on points. Johnson, it will be recalled. came within an ace of knocking Burns out in the first round at Sydney and after that show ed Tommy up as a plaything until the police put an end to the mill, when the French Canadian was on the verge of a knockout. OBrien Is 31 years old and has been in the prize ring since 1896. taking part in more than 160 bat ties. He never suffered a knockout
 
 at the end of the tenth round before the National A. c. of this city two months ago. Johnson is two months younger than O'Brien and has been fighting as a professional since 1901. He was knocked out in three rounds by Joe ChoynSh in that year. and Choynski was afterward beaten in six rounds by O'Brien. Johnson after the Choynsh affair did not suffer defeat until Marvin Hart got questionable decision over him in a twenty round bout. and later the big negro lost a bout on a foul to Joe Jeannette. John- son has taken part in sixty mills, knocking out sucn men as Joe Ken nedy, Jack Jeffries Sam Mcvey. Den yer Ed Martin. Peter Felix. Kid Cut second raters. His failure to stop Hank Griffen. George Gardner, Sandy Ferguson. Joe Jeanette. Sam Lang ford, Marvin Hart and. others has been regarded as sufficient proof of his com paratively weak punching power.
 An interested spectator will be Ket- chel. who is matched to fight twenty rounds with Johnson at Colma next October. Ketchel took a terrific beat ing from OsBrien before he put the outpoints Johnson. the Michigan Lions confidence in his ability to whip the negro champion will doubtless be i'm creased twofold. The biggest crowd that has ever seen a glove contest in Philadelphia will be at the ringside to the scene of action in four special trains. It fs said that the gross re- ceipts will amount to more than $20 600. Johnson will receive $5,000. win, lose or draw. while O'Brien will get a sub stantia1 percentage of the rest Of the third man in the ring and the men will begin fighting about 9:3O o'clock