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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
johnson Has Faxed
Many Of His Fights

Jack Johnson. beside being the first
black heavyweight champion of the
world. Is different from all the cham
,ions before him. For that matter, no
two OF the heavyweight kings have
been cast in the same mold. There
Sas been a startling change of shapes
md figures in the heavyweight loaleid-
oscope, writes Bob Edgren In the Sec
ond OF his series on champions of to-
lay.
But johnson differs principally in
his: All his life he has been taking
hghts He SAYS he had faxed because
had to fake TO get matches, and that
now he will make his own terms and
lake no more.
The other heavyweight topnotchers,
from Sullivan down. have been
straight men. Sullivan was straight,
No one ever questioned his ring hon
esty, Such a proceeding would have
been plain suicide with sensational
trimmings.
Imagine anyone accusing Sullivan OF
taking while old John La had a fist To
swing.
Then came Jim Corbett Gentle
man jim" wasn't a faker, except In
one case. he wasn't a great cham
pion. for the life he led spoiled his
career. After beating Sullivan Cor
bett never won a really great hght.
He was beaten by Fitzsimmons and
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

Sharkey and Jenries Still he was
always in the limelight because ne
fought only championship battles. The
single exception was in the fake with
Kid Mccoy. which was purely money
eetter For a short time Corbett was
a truly great heavyweight-the class
Of them all-and this period dated
from the fight with Peter jackson
to the day he won from Sullivan
Fltz Great Fighter.
Fifzsimmons never would frame
ANYTHING. He won middle and heavy
weight titles and defeated them hon
ostly Fitzsimmons never was AFRAID
of any man living. Only a middle
weight. he fought such men as Cor
bett, Sharkey. Rubin, Maher and the
gigantic Jeffries. and Knocked them
all out but the last named. Many at
tempts were made TO get Fitz to
frame" matches. Jack O'Brien trled
To induce the old champion TO takc'
and failed. O'Brien had to beat fltz
on the level He succeeded only pc-
cause age mad already robbed Fltz-
simmons Of his old fighting ability
A great fighter. FlEsimmons. All
things considered. I think him the
greatest fighting man that ever drew
on a glove.
Then came Jeffries. But JEFF never
could be induced to do anything dls,
honest. My friends believe In me-
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

he used to say, and ] won't throw
them down" Absolute honesty Is his
record.
Johnson may have been forced to
fake fights years ago. He was a big
fellow and q dangerous looking custo-
mer. He fought many poor 20-round
affairs against men like Mexican Pete
Everett, George Gardner, Sandy Fer
Suson and others OF inferior class.
Some of these may have been framed
to go the, limit But Johnson isn't
an aggressive fighter against a man
who Will tear at him
Still his claim is borne out by his
late fights He has knocked out jim
Flynn old Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom
my Burns. He faxed outright with
Sailor Burns at Bridgeport, and that
wasn't necessary Now, as champion,
he may reform and fight on the level.
It's possible.
Johnson is great boxer. ! think
in everything except aggressive work
he is the equal of Joe Cans. His de-
tense Is marvellous. He isn't great on
the aggressive. He Is like Jim Cor
beta great boxer, but too anxious
to save his skin He pulls away
when he lands. His best point Is In
counterinG.
Few men have been better built
for the tough game than Johnson, He
looms up like an ancient Greek bronze
or some forgotten African warrior
Six feet two in his socks, he has
reach in proportion, thick arms, broad
shoulders, deep chest and good legs.
His head is like the heads OF all negro
flghters-a bullet-shaped mass of bone
hard TO shake with blow. John
son is supple and very quick. He
blocks wonderfully well and Is always
poised to take advantage of an open
Ing when the other man is rushing
This Is his natural style,
Has Fine Defense.
Sullivan, Corbett. Fitzsimmons and
Jenries were always at their man Sui
lIyan FitZ and Jeff made 1t their bus
mess to push in against punishment
and fall away until the other fellow
dropped. This isn't Johnson's way.
He blocks carefully. mixes for mo"
ment and then pulls away for a rest.
He reserves his strength. and by clev-
er defensive work makes his rival do
the hghting until he tires. He never
stays in close and slams until some
thing happens.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE

Notice Is hereby given that a meet.
Ing OF the stockholders of the Ogden
Packing & Provision company will be
held at the office OF said company in
Ogden City, Utah, on the 18th day of
May, 1909, at the hour of 10 o'clock
a, m. for the purpose Of amending the
articles OF incorporation Of said COM
pany by striking out the paragraph Of
section eight OF SAID articles relating
TO the employment OF Mr.. F. E.
Schlageter as general manager of the
corporation and adopting in lieu
thereof paragraph providing for the
employment Of general manager of
said company.
SIMON S. JENSEN.
Secretary.
Dated at Ogden. Utah. April 18th.
1909.
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were matched, il was the last straw.
You hardly heard mention Of Jeffries'
name, Now the people behind the JEFF
fries tour are no fools They are Civ
Ing him big money. and they have to
set 1t back from the public. They
could not stand for shortened box Of
fico receipts. and III wager they In
duced JEFF to announce he would fight
Johnson some day 1t was a ten
strike, at that. for they tell me the
ticket spectators have done a land
office business outside Jeffries' show
ever since But it brings us no near
er to a Jeff-Johnson fight, and / think
many of us will have answered the
last gong before that event comes TO
pass
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

ed with r. C. Kearns and David Keith
in the proposition TO build what Is
known as the Salt Lake route when It
was first contemplated. Senator VIII
liam A. Clark later became interested
and after s snt deal Of trouble with
the Oregon Short Line surveying
crews and track builders, the road was
finally built, Mr. Kearns told of the
| contests in court over the right OF way
/ and roadbeds through Meadow Valley
Wash and how the matter had been
carried up to the interior department
| at Washington. and how the decision
! had gone against himself and asso-
clates and In favor of the Oregon
Short Line. and of the final settlement
of the differences between the roads
and the completion of the line.
| The examination of Mr.. Kearns
brought out no startling features. the
! witness appearing somewhat disin
clined to understand. or answer the
questions put to him, and when he
did answer the replies were short and
J somewhat curt.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
NAUGHTON HAS NO
CONFIDENCE IN JEFF
(By w. w. Naughton.


San Francisco, April 30.-Jlm JEFF
fries sudden declaration that he would
surely fight Jack Johnson was as a siz-
zling rocket soaring into the dark
ness It surprised and thrilled us.
Now that the sparks have died out and
the stick has come down, we are Won
dering what it all meant. And we are
wondering whether there is really any
thing to enthuSe over.
know that am talking about when
/ say that there are hundreds of sport
ily Inclined men In San Francisco who
think that jeff passed out gold brick
when he addressed the crowd in that
New York theater a few nights ago.
They point to the fact that Mr.. JEFF
fries has said he will not consider
meeting with Johnson until the latter
has disposed of young Ketchel next
October, and that. after that, Mr.. JEFF
fries Will require ALMOST year. prob
ably. in which to train
This Is placing the Jeff-Johnson go
in the dim and distant future with a
vengeance. Who can tell what the
pugilistic situation will be like year
and a half from now? Johnson. for
one thing, has become a winebibber.
they say, and a year and half from
now he may not be worth licking.
Among the fellows who are shaking
their heads and signing over Jeff's dila-
toriness Is one who has followed Jeff's
career from the time he left the boiler
shops until he went into the alfalfa.
! The party IN question is q veteran
! sport If ever there was one. He can
talk as glibly Of the days when Tom
nv Chandler fought as the new gener-
: alton can of the Nclson-G Cans fights. |
: do not want to embarrass him by men,
tIoning his name. but possibly he will
recognize the words he said to me last
| Tuesday afternoon.
Jeffres Not In Earnest,
"Jeffries Is no nearer a fight with
! Johnson than he was that Sunday he
| made his appearance at the Wigwam
theatcr In this city Jim Is out for the
stuff, and he would be fool II he did
not make hay while the sun of pros
perlty is shining. When the clans got
together In New York recently and
there was so much pow-wowing with
Ketchel Kaufman and Johnson In the
/ forefront, JEFF began to feel that he
was slipping away from the limelight-
His show business dwindled. and when
! | say that, | know what | am talking
about.
Then, when Ketchel and johnson
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

role of this character and his dram
attic ability is also adequate.
Miss Marion Belnap was we'll re-
ceived In the part of Cynica, the wife
OF Pygmallon, and did exceptionally
good work throughout the perform
ances, as did also Briant Jacobs, as
Chrysos. and Orlinda Wooley. as
Daphne, the lattor's wife. These last
named characters supply the comedy
of the piece and both parts were we'll
carried
Henry A. Anderson did very we'll
with the role of Leucippa, soldier
Mr., Anderson is also well adapted 10
character savoring of Greek hero
ics," and his work was very favorably
commented upon.
Miss Blanche Greenwell, Earl Bal
lantyne, Aaron Tracy and Miss Cleg
horn were cast In the less important
roles but displayed considerable tai
ent in what was demanded of them
"A. w. Fl,
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
MATRoNS' MEDAL CONTEST

The "Matrons' oratorioal contest" i"
given by the W. c. T. u. Wednesday
afternoon. April 21, proved to be very
interesting affair. The ladies taking
part did their parts we'll, the judges
having a hard time deciding who
should have the lovely silver medal,
finally awarded 1t to Mrs. S. Way.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
|. 0. G. 7. MEETING

Good Tcmplers will meet Friday
night. April 30, In Trades and Labor
Assembly hall. and as usual good
time is expected. All members who
haven't been out within the last few
weeks. II they should come. will find
great changes have taken place.
Friday night will be election OF on
GERS and an entertainment Is to be
planned. All members on Miss
Prothro's side are urged to be there,
as all know II she wins they win. and
In order to win. she must have support.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

At uisville-The Louisville -Tole-
do game postponed on account of wet
grounds.
At Kansas City-The St Paul-Kan-
sas City and St Paul game was post
poned on account of rain.
At Minneapolis-Th Minneapolis
and Milwaukee game was postponed
on account Of rain.
At olumbus-Coumbus ., Indian
apolis TO-
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

In the district court yesterday. She
alleges TINT she was married TO Mr..
Dunn at Pennington, October 7th.
1907. and that since the time Of the
marriage the defendant has failed to
provide for her. She asks for a di.
vorce and for general relief.
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Sacramento 5, San Francisco

Sacramento 5, San Francisco 8.
San Francisco. April 29.-Sacramen-
to won from San Francisco today In
the tenth inning. getting two runs
across the plate and putting out the
locals In their half San Francisco
opened with two runs in the first and
one in the third, but from that time on,
Fitzgerald had them guessing all the
time. Score: III E.
Sacramento ,...............5 8 l
San Francisco ............3 Q Q
Batteries: Fitzgerald and Graham;
Eastley and Berry.
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Itching, bleeding. protruding or him,
piles yield to Doan's Ointment. Chron
ic cases soon relieved, finally cured
Druggists all sell II.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30

Prays For Oivorce.-Mary Dunn
commenced divorce proceedings
against her husband. James F, Dunn,
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
Game Postponed.

Game Postponed.
Philadelphia. April 29.-The Wash
ngton-Philadelphi game was post
poned.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE

Seattle 3, Tacoma 2.
Seattle, April 29.-Seattle captured
the game today from Tacoma, 3 to 2
Score: R.H.E.
Batteries; Seaton and Shea; Baker
and Kellackey.
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light to fry without being reshened and costs than

witnessed the opening Of the Western
league season in Pueblo, and the locals
annexed the game from Des Moines
bv the score of 20 0.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
Los Anoeles q. Vernon 8.

Los Angeles. April 29.-Fast, snap
py baseball marked the game between
Los Angeles and Vernon today. the
home team getting the long end of
4 IN 2 score
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Omaha 3, Denver q.

Denver, April 29.-Six thousand
shlverlng fans Witnessed the opening
game of the Western league season
here today Denver winning from
Omaha in tho fourteenth inning. The
greater part of the game was played
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland S, Oakland 4,

IT S'"F'u OVFN'"'To
Portland, April 29.-Portland easily
defeated Oakland today. 5 to l, The
locals made two in the first. two in
the third. and one in the fourth.
Ccore: R H e.
Portland 0
Oakland 3
Batteries: Carson and Armbruster,
Nelson, Christian and La Longe.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
DoubIe.Header Broke Even.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 10 New York q.

Boston, April 29.-Boston won from
New York today, 10 to 4. taking the
series by three games to one.
Score; II III E,
Boston Observation-Disclosures. 10 IL
Now York ,-...,..,.........4
Batteries: Cicotte and Darlington;
Newton, Blair and Kleinow.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-30
WESTERN LEAGUE
Lincoln 2. Topeka S.

Topeka. April 2o.--Before crowd of
5000 people. Topeka defeated Lincoln
today In The opening game, The open
ing OF the Western league season was
made a holiday and Governor Stubbs
pitched the first ball.
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Aberdeen 6, Vancouver !.
rancouver, April 29.-Aberdeen won
m Vancouver TODAY. 6 to
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Portland 6. Spokane 8.

Batteries. Starkell and O'Brien; GIT
ligan, Hickey and Sugden,
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Des Moines o, Pueblo S.
Pueblo, April 29.-Slx thousand fans
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Sion. Citv a. Wichita s.

SIOUX CITY g. WTcHItd D,
Wichita. April 29.-Wichita won
from Sioux City In dust storm, 5 to
S. In the fifth Freeman passed four
men. Starr went In and allowed
three-baggef.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27
SLEIGH OVERTURNS;
ANIMAL RUNS AWAY
Young Lady Occupants Left Lying in
the Snow, but Fortunately Are
Uninjured in Accident.

Three young ladies had a narrow
escape from serious injury yesterday
afternoon while out for sleigh ride.
They were driving east on Fifth ave-
nue. and were having a merry time.
Somehow or other when they arriv-
ed at Twenty-ninth street the sleigh
overturned, dumping the girls in the
snow and frightening the horse into
running away. The young ladies
soon picked themselves up and after
taking an inventory found that none
of them had been hurt. The horse
by this time was at Thirtieth street
and still running, although the sleigh
was proving heavy load to drag, as
it was lying on its side.
At Thirty-f1rst street some soldiers
from the arsenal, who were on their
way down town, made an attempt to
stop the horse, but it eluded them.
In doing no, however, it turned the
sleigh over still further and grad
ually the load became more than the
animal could stand. It ran another
half block and sank down in the
snow. The soldiers pursued it and
loosened it from its harness, where
upon it regained its feet and was able
to return to its mistresses shortly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27
FLAMES CONSUME
ROAD STOREHOUSE
Fire Early This Morning in the Rock
Island Yards at Foot of Thir-
ty-first Street.

The two-story frame building east
Of the roundhouse of the Rock Island
road at Thirty-first street formerly
used as storehouse, repair shop and
quarters for some of the crews, was
destroyed by fire at 1920 this morn
ing. The men who lodged in the
building had placed some clothes over
the radiators TO dry them out. These
caught fire. and the men did not make
an effort to extinguish the blaze. At
ter the fire had gained a good Roadway
the department was called. There are
no facilities there with which to fight
a fire, and the department was hand
icapped. The building was Quilted. 1t
contained large quantity of lumber,
and supplies for engines. The loss
will be $500, covered by insurance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27

are counted it is safe to estimate that
almost 100000 pieces of matter went
through the postOffice each day for the
past week The rush is not yet over
and the amount of mail handled each
day is far above the average, but it IS
expected that after New Years day
the rush Will be over with.
Express Office Swamped.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
passed through its first Christmas
season here last week, and so had
no standard of comparison. The
company, however, handled an enor-
nous amount of packages. The Adj
ans Express company reports the
heaviest week in its experience To-
cally. The office is still swamped
with the packages today. The Unit
ed States Express and American Elk
press companies handled just about
the same amount as usual.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27
PIERCE, MINE VICTIM,
HERE SEVERAL YEARS
Formerly Member of Local Corps
of Government River En-
gineers.

w. T. Pierce, one of the victims Of
the coal mine explosion at Herrin, ILL.,
Thursday of last week, for six years
was connected with the local offices
of the United States river engin. ers,
making his home in this city. HE
leaves his wife and child
Mr.. Pierce was reared in Mt. Car
roll, Ill. Two years ago he left the
government service to become engi
neer for a number OF coal mines in
the vicinity of Herrin. Mr.. Pierce was
on an inspection trip in mine A Of the
Chicago & Carterville Coal company's
group when the disaster occurred. With
him were two men and a boy. They
were carrying open lamps. From these
the gas ignited, causing the explosion.
The four members Of the party were
killed. There were eight deaths IN all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27
INSTALL MOOSE
LODGE JAN. IS
Expected That the Charter
Membership Will Be a
Thousand.
TO HAVE OWN CLUB HOUSE
Gymnasium Supported by Supreme
Lodge to Be One of the Lead
ing Features.

The formal installation of a local
lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, a
secret fraternal organization, is to take
place on the night of Jan IS under aus
picious circumstances, according to the
plans of National Organizer 1. w. Gun
bingham. A special train from Chicago
and Peoria will bring the big Moose
band from Peoria and the supreme Off
GERS from the east, including ]. ].
Davis of New York and J. B. Price Of
Chicago.
A large number of Rock Islanders
has been enrolled as charter members
of the order, and Mr.. Cunningham
places his expectations on a total mem
bership of 1000 for the local lodge. 1t
is planned to provide a capacious
Moose home with well equipped club
rooms. The local lodge will be known
as Rock Island lodge 1870
Open to the Ladies'
In regard to the Moose home and
club, Mr.. Cunningham said: ct is
planned TO make the home a gentle
meh's club house, open to every mem
Der of Rock Island lodge and occasion
ally to the mothers, wives, sisters and
daughters. Social occasions for the
ladies especially will be held about
once a month.
The home will be fitted with every
appliance for the comfort of members,
and among the features of the Moose
club will be a first class gymnasium
which will be under the supreme super
vision of Judge F. D. Fox of Peoria
and supported by the supreme lodge.
Rock Island will have its local director
of athletics.
New to the West
The Loyal Order Of Moose has been
in existence for "a years. but has been
comparatively unknown in the west
until recently. The society is open to
all citizens for membership who are of
the white race engaged in lawful occu-
pations and of good standing in the
community.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-27
SINKS IN STORMS SWEEP
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covered to a depth of four feet with
seaweed.
Fifty families in the vicinity Of Sau-
gus river were driven from their homes
by the tide and many were taken out
Of their houses in boats.
Fallen wires for a radius of 20 or 80
miles around Boston and throughout
southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island made it necessary to cut out
completely electric lighting plants in
those communities which were served
by the overhead system. Large cities,
such as Cambridge, Somerville, Lynn,
Brockton, Providence, Fall River and
New Bedford, were in darkness, except
for the light afforded by the moon.
Seventy-MIIe Gale at Prices Neck
Newport, R. l., Dec 27-The wind
attained a velocity of over 20 miles an
hour yesterday, and at high tide the
waves broke against the life saving
station t Prices Neck.
On Nantasket beach, in Hull, the
damage to property is estimated at
100000.
Beverly. the summer home of Presi-
dent Taft, is cut off from cOmmunica-
ton with the outside world by tele
phone and telegraph. A messenger
from there late last night said that the
storm and tide caused great damage
along the water front.
New York SnowbOund
New York, Dec. 27.-New York and
its environs were practically snow
bound for the first time this winter.
The west wing of railroad service was
almost wholly cut off. wire communica-
ton in every direction was crippled
metropolitan streets were blocked with
snow, and shipping, even within pro-
lection of the harbor, suffered consid-
cradle damage.
The arrangement of railroad traffic
was one of the most serious expert
enced in several years. Trains from
the south and west bore the worst of
the delay, service in these directions
being practically cut off all day, while
the upstate and Canadian trains were
from one to three hours behind their
schedules.
The two 1S-hour Chicago trains were
delayed to an almost record breaking
limit, the Pennsylvania, due here at
1854 a. m, having failed to arrive up to
O'Clock last night, and the New York
Centrars Chicago flyer, due here at
1920 a. m, being over hours late.