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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29
What COrbett Thinks
OF JeffrieS' Chances

after day Rubin and 1 fought We
didn't take the world lightly. At the
beginning of the course, we didn't cut
loose, but after a few Gays we stood
and slugged each other-stood right up
and slugged. 1 got into splendid con-
dition. The fight 1 made surprised the
world, as you know. l surely had come
back Jeffries got me with one blow
in the 23 round.
Again, six years after I had lost TO
Fitzsimmons, 1 fought jeff in San
Francisco. Some people say that 1 was
slow in that fight. They only remem-
Der the last eight rounds. / was slow
then, for a good reason. When that
began l was absolutely as good as ever
in my life l was stronger than ever
and fully as fast. But I never got
started.
One Punch Did It.
I'm the beginning of the second jeff
landed a terrible punch in the body.
That took all the fight out of me. 1t
robbed me of every chance 1 had to
win. 1t was an awful blow. 1t Slapped
my strength. / knew that l was beaten
and from that time on 1 could only
stand up to him and punch away and
hope for a quick knockout. l wouldn't
give in knew l must lose, but made
up my mind to die gamely.
"Jeffs strength was something 1 can
hardly describe. When tried to block
his blows 1 nearly broke my arms with
his fists. He drove my forearms back
against my body so hard | thought
he'd crush my ribs in. He beat my
arms down like straWs. Yes, and when
he cam eout in the 10th round and
caught me twice in the body with those
awful hooks, l thought he had driven
my ribs clean through and out this 9TH
er side. felt the effects of those blows
for months afterward.
eff Jeff beats Johnson it will be with
such blows as that. johnson was the
gamest man in the world in his early
fights. He has had easy picking among
the little fell rs, and has been able 10
laugh through his fights of late But
if he gets a few of Jeffs rib crushers
he'll begin to think mighty hard.
CAS- for cleterness Johnson has the
best of it. He is a very clever boxer
His left hand is a joke, but he has two
dangerous punches with his rlght-ah
uppercut and a good right hook. Inc
unpercut loses it's force in reaching a
tall man. The little fellows were made
to order for it.
81 don't believe that at the best ne
can put Jeffries off his feet. He is
long distance fighter. He has enour-
ance and a good defense. Johnson got
much of his skill from Joe Cans anu
Cans got it from me. Cans USED 10
come to me and ask me to let him stay
in the gymnasium and watch me DON
Whenever he saw me use something
new he'd chuckle and say: mat
mighty fine business, Mr.. CorDett.
Then he'd go away and perfect IL lor
his own use. He showed some OF THESE
tricks to Johnson long aIter"ai H.
Johnson is a big Joe Cans
"Gameness is what Jeffrles has oii
Johnson. You know how he has always
walked into the best we could manu- HIM
Fitzsimmons was a great puncher, put
FitZ couldn't drive Jeff BACK
Founder of Radcliffe Dies.
ATLANTIC CITY, N: j.. Dec. 70.
If
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29

George Gardiner. George acted as
thought he had been shot full of pow
erful dope His legs wabbled; his
punches went wild and a 16-year-old
youth might have dropped him at any
stage; yet he stayed IA rounds with AL
Kaufman, and the few who remained
for the finish of the fiasco went away
wondering how long it was going to
take the coming champ to arrive at
his present gait. Expert mathemati-
clans figured that he would be cham
pion in exactly 7,345,97S years.
Mike Schreck, Dave Barry again and
Jack Twin followed. Jack Twin stay
ed % rounds and should have had a
draw.
1--WE are not rushing this young man.
said Billy Delaney. 1--WE are letting
him take his time. He will be a cham
pion some day
The chance to nail Tommy Burns
was oNerIooheo. Al tliS time Ionny
was posing around as the real Camem-
bert.
Every year they brought AL Kauf-
man east to show him to the eastern
solons Al was taking his time.
Last year he fought Joe Grim, Bat
Ting Johnson, Jim Flynn, Fred Bradley
w all these fights and Billy Delaney
was enthusiastic. He had the rollers
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29

Baseball magnates in the National
league proved at last that they Intend
to have order on the diamond and dis
cipline among the players of that or
eanization when they Unexpectedly
elected Thomas ]. Lynch, who was ia
nous for years in the baseball world
and once called the king of umpires.
LYNCH will act as pilot of the older or
eanizat on for one year. Lynch was
horn in New Britain, Conn. He has
heer out of baseball so long that he is
practically unknown to the present
generation of fans. Lynch quit the Ma
tionaI league in 1895. He started his
career as an umpire in the Eastern
league in 1884, and umpired in the
New England in 1885 and 1885. Then he
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29

chance to exhibit his ganleness. which
has never been questioned
Now comes AL Kaufman once more.
and having had time in which to- pre-
pare an alibi states that he would have
whipped Johnson had he been given
time" enough in which to finish the
job Those who saw the fight agreed
that in 10 years Kaufman might have
worn Johnson down and starved him
to death.
Wants to Fight jeff
Kaufman wants to fight Jeffries now
He really does. He thinks if he has
time enough he may be champion yet.
At his rate of progression he should
be champion about 1876
If in five years he learned enough
about the game to escape by the bar
est margin a knockout at the hands of
Tony r IS, there is no question but
that he will be a champion-if he has
time enough. The trouble is that most
of us will not live long enough to
see it.
Figuring on the present generation,
Kaufman will not do. There is some
thing vitality wrong with his style of
fighting. To boil it down to mouth
full, Al lacks the class, and no amount
of press agent work will make up for
this defect.
Time to take him away.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29
E,,,nd.r If Radcliffe Dies.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. Dec: IL.
Arthur Gilman. auth r. Of Camorioge
Mass. died today. He was ~ wears
old. He was founder of Rad .ilne
college. He wrote numerous nistori-
cal works.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29

went to the National league and UNI
pired dur ng those troublous days
when umpires had their feet trodden
on daily by the players-althOugh no
player committed the offense against
Lynch a second time-until 1892. He
then dropped out for year and came
back and umpired in 1894 and part OF
1895. President Freedman of New York
drove Lynch out of the game in 1895
over dispute at the Polo grounds in
which Davis and Doyle of the Giants
were fined 800 each. He refused many
offers to return to the game. Harry
Pulliam only a few years ago urged
him 70 take up ara the duties OF
Knight Of the indicator.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29
(By Robert Edgren.)

10y TIODeTl EuSIen1
NEW YORK, Dec. 29-Ponce de Leon
never discovered the Spring of Youth
in Florida 1t must be in England and
Jim Corbett must have found it there.
Jim returned to America Friday, look
years ago while training for the fight
with Bob Fitzsimmons at Carson. Other
the joints, but the years certainly sit
lightly on Jim Corbett.
Train Jeffries? 1 certainly am 60
ing to do all can. 1 want to see the
white man win this fight. I've fought
big Jim twice, and were the best of
friends after it all. Jeff is a splendid
Dig fellow. I've a world of admiration
for him. He asked me if l would join
his camp and wanted to know what my
figures would be. 1 told him that
! money couldn't buy my services, but
| hat I'd be glad to go with him and
| work as hard as he did years ago, when
he helped me out at Carson and that
| he couldn't pay red cent for it.
! expect to be with him during the last
| month of his neutrality-suspicious. longer,
| and if there is anything in my brain
| hat can help him he's more than well
come to it,
Has Superhuman Strength.
| What do 1 think of Jeff's chances
| Well, I'll tell you. Jim is man alto
/ gether out of the ordinary run. Rules
hat apply to ordinary men don't touch
| i'm. In my fights with him 1 have
| found him almost superhuman in
| strength and endurance and recuperat-
ing powers. His strength is like that of
| a grizzly bear. He's absolutely game.
] He's so strong that it's as hard to
! mock him off his feet as it would be
! to push over the Flat:ron building. If
| he tires he can just lay back and
rest, and what can you do about it?
| "a jab is no good against jeff be-
! cause he has neck like post and
| big bony head that you can't jar back.
! 1t isn't the impact of the jab that hurts
It's having your head snapped back.
| You can jab Jeff on the jaw and he
only pushes straight in against the
F, jab.
"Jeffries can be dazed by a heavy
blow on the jaw, of course. Any man
| can. But the peculiar thing about JEFF
| fries is that the effect doesn't last more
than a couple of seconds. In our Coney
| Island fight 1 thought 1 had him. I
| landed a right on the tip of his chin
| just as hard as 1 could let it go. He
| clinched. His face was six inches from
mine, and saw his eyes rolling. Per-
haps no one could see it from the ring
| side. 1 knew he was dazed badly. But
! by the time had pulled away his head
| was clear again. He was as good as
ever
| Man Can Come Back.
| HAS Jeffries that recuperating pow
er still? Well, that's the question, of
course. 1 believe that he has. Look
here, Jeffries has never been beaten.
He has simply been out of the ring
| for while. He isn't old. I know my
/ self that a man can come back-a man
who hasn't been beaten to a pulp in
former fights. I know it because /
! came back myself twice. Three years
after / had been beaten by Fitzsimmons
! at Carson-stopped with one terrible
punch in the body-I trained and
fought Jeffries. Everybody thought ]
was dead one.'
Il went down and had big Gus Ruiz
lin train with me at Lakewood. Day
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-06-12

from Maine 70 California. Sitting on
the platform with the Bishop was
the Col Benito-Sylvain OF the Ably
sinian army and side de camp 20
Menelik. The Colonel IS on his way
to his native country, Hayti
Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett OF Chicago.
OF the Anticipating League. spoke
on 'LynchinE. Our National Crime. 81
without mentioning Africa she re-
called the story OF the question ask
ed the lion, why. since he was king
of beasts, whenever he was In con-
hict with man the accounts al
ways said that the man had the
best Of It Because" said the lion
the man writes the story" Mrs
Barnett found that the reason lynch.
ings were always said 10 be the re-
suit OF negroes attempts to assault
white women was that the man who
wanted IL 10 appear so 20 excuse his
own crime of murder wrote the story
Mrs. Barnett said that 3.2S4 men.
women and children had beer lynch
ed in quarter OF a century. In the
last ten years the lynchings number
ed 1O2 white men and S57 negroes
She said:
Investigations for the last fifteen
years, in many cases OF alleged rape
have proved the charges 20 be false
In some instances the woman con-
cerned has yielded 70 the temptation
10 shield herself at the expense OF
her paramour. In other cases il is
the attempt of white men 10 punish
black men for following the example
set by themselves and consulting
across the color line"
=. F. Pilsbury, former Attorney
General OF Massachusetts,, said. I
object to DISTINGUISHING not because
the negro is DISTINGUISHED. but be-
cause the whole performance is po-
litical fraud upon the whole com
munity, the whole country, all the
non-disfranchising States. Disfran-
chising the negro has multiplied by
at least two the political power of
every white voter in DISTINGUISHING
States and by so much has disfraR-
chised the other white voters in the
thirty seven non DISTINGUISHING
States"
AT the afternoon session, at which
Oswald c. Willard presided, Joseph
{. Manning OF Alexander City, Ala.
said that the President had not en-
forced the law as embodied In the
constitutional amendments william
A. Sinclair Of Philadelphia said:
Mr. Taft has made a shameful
concession to placate the South. The
people of the North support him be-
cause they believe him honest. He
fairly basked in Southern hospitality
and there is no more bospitable peo-
pie. nor is there a people who know
better how TO use it to further their
own aims. Mr.. Taft has bent the
knee TO the Baal of Southern race
prejudice in saying that he would
not appoint colored men to Office Il
the white citizens protested. We
must take up this challenge and
meet il manfully"
New York Sun, June ?, 1909.
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VIRULENT SMALLPOX.
Smallpox in Virginia at Present the
Worst known in Years.

Richmond, Va, June 2.-(Spe-
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indicate that smallpox still exists In
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there have been comparatively few
cases, but so many OF these have died
that the Health authorities are TAX
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OF the State Health Department. the
Commissioner gave out a brief state
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much alarmed at the prevalence OF
the disease, "he said" as at its viru-
lent form. Beyond question. the
smallpox now in eastern Virginia Is
the worst known in many years. and
has caused a very considerable NOR
tality Our reports indicate that
many people have been lulled into
"a false security by the mild character
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and have neglected 10 vaccinate
their children. AS along as this con-
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ly. I'm view OF the fact that local
health authorities are active in con-
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Health Department has not yet or
dered compulsory vaccination
throughout the infected district. It
Is understood, however. that unless
the situation is improved. cOmpul-
sorry vaccination will be demanded
IN a number Of counties.
-.
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morning the civil and political stains
81 the negro and in the afternoon
me negro and the nation. Bishop
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-08-20
AMONG THE CHURCHE s.

There will be no further services al
ST. Marks church until the first Su nday
in September. The lay reader, Seth r..
Allen, is taking a vacation.
The pastor will give the second ad.
dress on Messages from the Bible" at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
morning. No evening service on account
of union service 10 Baptist church.
Next Sunday morning at the Ba ptist
church the subject will be The CIR, of
the Mob y. p 5 c. r. at 80 p. m.
Subject; Two Prayer Lessons Leader
Rev. Owens Union pre- ching service
at 30. Sunday school will commence
at II 45 instead Of at y m.
NJ. +. Church, g Gilbert Stansell, pas
Tor. You will always fud cordial well
come to the following services:
1000 a. M, class meeting
1880 d. m, morning worship.
ll:30 a m, Sunday school Leon Doug
las, supt)
500 p. m Junior league.
6:3O p. m, Epworth league devoti on a |
meeting
1870 p. IN, choir practice, Saturday even.
ing.
The pastor invites anyone to call on
him a t any hour.
The Rev. d. f. Barnes d d. OF Niles
will preach in the Methodist church
/ Sunday morning. The service will be
! especially strong You are cordially
/ invited.
Beautiful colored scenes OF Colorado
will be shown in the Presbyterian
church Gu Wednesday evening. Sept. |.
DR.. NJ A Stone, pastor of one of the
churches in Denver, has some splendid
views Of the Rockies, and delivers a very
interesting lecture with the views. He
also possesses a fine electric arc light Ian
tern which he will use here. DR.. Stone
has travelled all through the mounta ms
many times, and has taken his own
views Rev. Grigsby saw the views VIII en-
in Denver, and was entertained at. DR.
Stones home. lie invited DR.. Stone to
give his lecture here. The admission
Zee will be reasonable. Don't miss this
treat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-08-20
"SNIpfO" ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Mrs. III. A. Paul of South Haven Con
victed of Peculiar Ofense. Trial
Takes Two Days.

The celebrated paul Case" which
has attracted considerable attention M
the city OF South haven, was tried in
Justice Phelps court in that city last
Friday and Saturday
1t was peculiar case. Mrs. II. A
Pau IL a resident OF South Haven and
it seems that some time ago the city
electrician cut of the lights from her
residence and took out the meter Some
time later electric lights we're noticed ~
the building and an investigation showed
that someone had again connected the
electric light wires aud that the city was
furnishing lights for the building which
had been cut of from the service.
Suit was brought against Mrs. Paul
and Attorney George b. Chamberlain
of Chicago came there to defend her.
After trial lasting two days the jury
brought in verdict of guilty. Jldge
Phelps assessed fine and costs amount
ing to about $50 Prosecuting Attorney
Glenn Il Warner looked after the peo-
pies interest in the cas'
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-08-20
BIG DAY FOR SOUTH HAVEN
Thursday August 20. $500 in Cash
Prizes, Cups and Medals.

South Ravens automobile enthusiasts
are making great preparations for the
first annual auto races, which will be
pulled oil on Thursday, August 26, under
the auspices of the South Haven Auto
mobile Club Five hundred dollars in
prizes, cups, medals etc. will be given
and the event promises to be big
affair.
The races will be as follows;
lst. Free for all 2nd. Race for Van Bur
en- Co. cup Machines in this race must
be owned and driven by Van Buren,
county autoists. 3rd. Race open to all
machines of % horse pc yer or under. 4th.
Free for all motor cycle race.
The races will all be twice around the
four mile course, which will be patrolled
by troop a in uniform.
The event will conclude on Friday, the
following day, with a grand rush for
Paw Paw AXE and grand finish dinner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-08-20
WE HAVE A GOOD TEAM. BUT

The True Northerner acknowledges
receipt of a splendid picture of the fast
Boomingdale base ball team. and with
the following sentimental missive:
cam sending you a picture of the
fastest independent team IN south west
ern Michigan Did you ever hear of
them? Don't give their two games
with Paw Paw any more space than
you gave the Good Lucks" Don't call
it horse shoes either You have a good
team but Oh! that Bloomingdale buuc1
'Rah! 'Rah.
Anyway the umpire was fair"