The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-29
PUCILISM
CAN LICK JOHNSON.

NEW YORK-Is the man who can lick Jack Johnson found?
 The big town is swarming with l fight fans back from Reno and they all say Warren Barbour can do it. Warren Barbour, aged 20, son of a millionaire. also amateur heavy weight champion of the world l Will he fight the black man. Opinions differ. Some people socic. l ty folk say no. Sporting men say 1 that Col William Barbour. the mul- ti-millionaire thread manufacturer, is so proud of lis strong hard hitting boy, that they wouldn't be surprised to hear him say to Warren:
 Go thou and smite the Philistinc l hip and thigh!'
 This young giant has a trainer, Jack Cooper, Jack wouldn't say right out in company that Warren could lick Johnson, but lie told me just how he'd get him ready for the championship mill.
 All the boy needs is experience" said Cooper. "Td give him his exper- cmcc and training for the match al 1 the same time. I'd have him take on the best professional fighters in| l the business, two month.
 The hardest men in the business should fight him, and 1 wouldn't be afraid for him, either. Then, after he'd got used to handling himself in the professional ring. wed make the match with Johnson That would be in about a year
 Young Barbour stands G feet 2l. inches high in his bare feet and weighs POS pounds in fighting trim. He has reach of 73 inches. and d barrel of a chest 45 inches around inflated and II inches denated
 He is a better physical specimen from physical culturist's stand point than Johnson or Jeffries either. for his weight is distributed He isn't topheavy like the colored man. Stripped. he looks lean as a cougar and his muscles lay flat on his huge frame like rippling plates
 He is 1.-the and shifty as q cat on his feet. a superb boxer, aSgrcs sive in tactics and just feeds on punishment" as Cooper says. And he has a punch in either hand as short and hard as trip hammer.
 He can hit as hard with four inch movement as he can at q foot, said Cooper. He has enormous quick strength in his wrists and fOrearms"
 Cooper runs a flesh reducing plant much frequented by the jaded peo pie of society. He had been put ting various members of the Bar bour family through courses of sprouts when young Warren Bar bour, aged IT, then weighing 235 pounds, went to Princeton and ap- piled for a place on the football team
 The captain liked his looks, but practice convinced him, the young putty and suffering from over growth
 So his father took him from col lege and gave him place in the office of the thread works, and his his mother put him into Cooper gymnasium. Cooper first took the he take up boxing. One lesson was enough.
 He was natural fighter" said Cooper. Tt was just nature for him to box He was good boxer at the end of the first lesson.
 Soon he wanted to go after the amateur heavyweight championship at Boston.
 Several professional pugilists were called in to help him with his train ing. One after another quit the job cold after being made punching bags | of by the society giant They said they would rather fight regular matches for a purse.
 Jeffries boxed with him, and then begged Barbour to join the training camp in California.
 Cooper took Barbour and a big party to Boston, where Barbour had to go up against the amateur cham