El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-26
e"; s 5s::. s, s:'-' General Sporting News R
Andrews Sporting Gossip
(By II. 8. Andrews.)

first in seventeen rounds and the sec
ond in twenty rounds. They will fight
in Melbourne. Stanley Ketchel and
Tommy Burns would draw an immense
crowd over here, so would Billy Papke
and Burns. Well, 1 am getting a little
bit tired, so will close, wishing you
the best OF luck and with best regards
to all OF my old friends In beer town,
1 remain, yours truly. Rudy Unholz."
Should Jack Johnson, the present
champion heavy weight, lose his title to
James J. Jeffries July next when they
meet in their As round battle for the
worlds championship, 1t will mean q
loss OF at least $250.OO0 to $500, 900 to
the negro railway employees of the
United States. This is a conservative
estimate and the chances are the loss
to them in case Johnson loses will be
still greater. There are $500 colored
porters employed by the Pullman com
pany, and a a low estimate there are
now 1900 negroes employed on the
parlor cars, dining cars and as cooks on
the various railroads, making fully
10000 in all 1t is a pretty safe predic-
tion that practically every one of them
will have a bet down on the big fight,
for negro porters and walters are mat
ural born gamblers" and it will be g.
poor kind of porter or waiter who will
not back up the negro champion. Fig
uring on the basis that every one of
these men bets from $40 TO SIS it brings
the total up ITO about $500, 900, which is
very conservative, for many of them
win bet up into the hundreds. and the
chances are the total amount bet by
the porters and walters will be nearer
half a million than $500, 600. That will
be quite a bunch of money for the ne
gro boys to lose and il is a cinch they
will be pulling hard for ''Mistah jack
to come home with the bacon. If he
does not, then the men travellers might
as well prepare themselves to advance
the ''tips" after July until the porters
and walters recoup their losses. Aside
from what these negroes will wager
might be added what the negro popula-
tion in general will bet land there are
many negro sports who will bet up into
the thOusands), and it is safe to esti-
mate that close TO 100000 will be
wagered this way, making in all close
to 1000, 600. As rule the negroes ex-
pect to place their bets at even money,
and many bets have already been made
al those odds.
The return of Harry Forbes. the Chi
cago bantam weight, to the roped arena
was a surprise to everyone in boxing
circles. Forbes was al one time cham
pion bantam weight of America. but he
retired about five years ago and had not
BEEN in training for any contest during
the interim. Forbes fought a clever
little fellow named Joe Coster the other
night in lew York and knocked him
out in the seventh round. CoSter was
no dub and therefore Forbes's victory
is all the more surprising and shows
that a man can come mack even after he
has been out Of the ring for several
years. OF course. it is an exception 10
the general rule and whether Forbes
can go against the stars of the east
and hold his own remains TO be seen.
He is now anxious TO get on a match
with Johnny Coulon al 116 pounds ring
side Forbes claims that he will give
Coulon a side bet of $1,000 if he will
make match at that weight. II would
be an Interesting contest as il would
bring together a boxer of the old school
and one of the new.