Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-23
TWO CHAMPIONS
To BOX THURSDAY
Jack Johnson and Frankie Conley
Appear on McCarey'S
Next Card
NEGRO TO BOX IN EXHIBITION
Bantam Title Holder and Most
Dangerous Rival Meet
at CatchWeightS
NEGRO TO BOX IN EXHIBITION

Variety will he the feature of the
card that Manager MeCarey will Of
fer at Maud Junction next Thursday
night, when he will stage another pop
ular price minor event card. The
fighting divisions that will be repre-
sented will range from the bantam to
the heavy, with two world champions
appearing in the two bouts which viii
divide public interest that evening.
Jack Johnson, the negro champion OF
his division, and Frankie Conley, the
world champion bantam, will be on
exhibition.
Naturally, Johnson will be the real
drawing card, although he will not
participate in real fight. His stunt
will be to strip to fighting togs and
do a fancy boxing stunt of four rounds
with George Cotton, his sparrlng part
ner. The fans will turn out to see nun
because they want to get a down-to-
date line on his general appearance
and compare him physically with the
new Jeffries whom he is to tackle July
4 in an endeavor to become the full
fledged world champion. With the big
coon stripped for action and doing
some light boxing, the fans will be
able to form an opinion regarding his
chances with Jeff.
Conley and Danny Webster VIII FUR
nish the windup event in ten-round
mauling match at catchweights, with
the title eliminated They will go into
the ring at about equal weights, or
near 119 pounds, as each is natural
bantam and weighs about as much as
the other The catchweight agreement
was arrived at because Conley does
not care to take any chances of losing
his title In short limit bouts and he
figures Webster as about the toughest
proposition in the contender class.
Conley is taking big chances at that,
as a decisive victory for Webster viii
cause the champion to lose prestige to
such a degree that. like Nelson and
Wolgast, Conley will have to concede
something in order to get match
with Danny at the bantam limit In
order to prove his superiority
The way the two boys talk indicates
that il is to be a fierce fight, but that
their plans of battle will be widely
different and that each VIII go IN 10
win at his own style of milling. Web
ster says that he will not go into the
ring in the expectation of winning by
knockout, as he knows Conley is too
tough a youngster to be knocked out
I'm ten rounds unless by accident.
Therefore. he will box the champion
and endeavor to so decisively outpoint
him that there viii be no further ques-
tion regarding the real owner of the
real title
Conley and his brother-manager are
very sanguine of a knockout victory
and have bet that way. Conley says
that he would have dropped Webster
for the full count at Portland had the
referee not been too careful about
Danny. who was down for more than
the required ten seconds. This time,
owing to the claims made by Webster
that he was entitled TO the decision at
Portland, Conley says he is going TO
wade right i'm from the first gong and
whip Webster to a brown turn. He
is betting that he viii not have to de-
pend upon newspaper decisions next
morning to find out who won, as he
will put the kibosh onto Danny early
I'm the mill,
Both boys have something more than
the purse to fight for. Conley wants
to keep busy for the next few months
and believes that the best match he
could secure would be with Johnny
Coulon, whom McCarey has promised
to get for him If Conley whips Web
ster decisively and Coulon will agree
to fight at 116 pounds. On the other
hand. Webster will get the match with
Coulon If he should decisively whip
Conley and the champion would have
to take on the winner at Vernon in
order to settle all dispute regarding his
title.