El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-23
The Herald's Sporting News

| ly requested it, but sneered at the non
! acceptance until the white man came
over with the promise
Now Jack Johnson is working hard
AS before his workouts are blended
with fun. That is the only way he
trains Whenever he lands a good one
on the jaw OF Kid Cotton, or Monte Cut
Ter. or Joe WOlcott, Jack smiles He
is trying TO develop his left jab. always
lesser in heft to that of his right paw.
Jack wants to be equal as possible
and not be forced to rely on his right
mitt wallop entirely for sleep produc-
ing purposes. In the gym he works
with the medicine ball. pulley weights.
rope skipping and now and then some
mat work When out for run, John
son WAVES his hand at anyone who
pays him attention, and often Is seen
hooking a ride on the rear Of an auto
mobile.
In short, Johnson romps like q boy
at work as well as play. Perhaps that
is better than the literary treatment
Jeff will have.
Back in merry England. cradle OF
prize fighting. there recently occurred
a peculiar celebration, little noted BY
the sporting world, still OF great in
dication of the days that are no more.
1t occurred in the parlor OF The Blue
coat Boy a public house" near
Islfngton, and for many years the homo
Of Jem Mace, former champion pugilist
OF the world.
Nearly so years ago Mace won ths
championship belt from Toro King, fol-
lowing up with victories over Joe Gos,
Joe Wormaild. Tom Archer, Joe Co
burn, Ned O'Baldwin, and others Of long
forgotten names With a few faithful
friends in that little inn over across
the water this old man Mace celebrated
his S0th birthday anniv There
was nothing unusual about 1t aside
from what the man once had been. Now
he is just an old man, nothing more
But the point of the thing lies here:
Jem Mace, prize fighter of the long ago.
was no different than the prize fighters
today He won and lost; won and spent.
During his career Il is estimated that
Jem Mace won more than $1,000, 600, q
pretty sum for even these days.
And today lem Mace is almost penni-
less, living in a public house, a worn
out. kinleSS old man. IT Is something
for the fighters of today to think about.
something to ponder over long and
long. There is a tomorrow as sure 70
come as that final punch that floors
Is the dream of clean sporting men
about 20 come true? 1t is not too good
come true sometime 1t refers, this
dream, to the purifying Of the ring
against the brainless brute and the sub
stitution Of Drawn for brain, the alb
serce Of decency, the presence Of de-
pravity
Just James j. Jeffries is looked to
for the elimination of a negro cham
piOn, some time man of intellect and
decency will be hailed as the Moses
to lead prize fighting out Of the wilder
ness Of brutality. The cultured man
seldom is a brutal man. And better,
there is a. logical, well grounded belief.
that the cultured man Is superior in
body as well as brain TO the human
brute.
1t is impossible for a man OF low
intellect TO reach any great perfection
in the science OF boxing. Brain always
will win out against Drawn, and so runs
the old adage OF fighting men, "a little
good man can beat a big poor man"
Even the lowbrowed men in the fighting
business today lay much stress in brain
work. system. science. A class of sport
ing men affirm that il alive and at his
best Jack Dempsey could knock out