The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
JOHNSON SAYS
SAM IS EASY
Champion Declares He VIII
Take on Langford in Private
for $4,000 Side Bet.
HARRY LEWIS WILL GO
TO PARIS TO MEET HAGUE
Bob Fitzsimmons Is the ONLY
Pugilist Who Was Young
at Middle Age.
BY JEFF THOMPSON.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-"will ever
PASS up a fine spring broiler?' seid
champion John Arthur Johnson, when
asked him IL would really meet San,
Langford
Johnson says he Is ready to meet I.an1-
'ord now for $4,000 for a private f,pht
Jack evidently thinks that ha doas,,,,
InGo Is,eal any training for Langford, for since
St ne mas allowed himself to become
%Johnson na ne Is gradually getting soft
ruIs something like this:
Joe Jeanette DutHS anu
III he whips both NJ 3hoea ra,,.-
son VIII not hesitate min,1te he 9exa
On the other hand. Samuel ssys fhst
Johns johnson Is just Sailing The S Cham strne
mehs p,eh q ans%er sDS noo to this is that he Will
ana 1lght him in private.
Johnson says that Joe Jeannette In a
adrder AZ K1n man than Sam Langford. while
ApTonos an u, Is better man than Joe
EEaangtord as he expressed IL to me. BiIIv
Gioson' manager OF the Fairmont A. q
~, I, 'nis city says that Johnson is bluff
negro. ' Sloii
Gibson's Opinion.
a,e,i Sioson SO, says; ~ Sam Langford can
ever drag Jack johnson into a ring for
a a,d Doxlng i match, he Will whip the cham
S'r, N.i.it--iSSS IHan T1y9 rounds.
Johnson whipped practically a dead man
10 Jefries. and nobody knows this bet
5Tr }Tis. tnan ian Johneon- lie knew that JEFF
ines Vas merely she'll and as hollow
as drum. II he had not known IL an
elephant could not have dragged john
son INTO the ring with Jeffres.
I've heard go much about Johnson's
courage, his great defense and sledge-
hammer blows that I'm weary OF II If
tne champion is all that his friends claim,
why doesn't he take on Langford?
fo sam mas been doggfng Johnson's steps
ior nearly Two years. imploring nav, beg
ing. for fight. Has johnson ever con-
Sented? Why? Is he afraid to meet
II think he is. And the reason for that
opinion Johnson knows better than any
one. johnson hasn't forgotten that night
At LaelSea- Mass. when Sam Langford
That Is Why believe Langford can wf1ip
J6hnson-the fight at Chelsea-ard Il is
the recollection of that scrap that has
caused Johnson to dodge Langford for
nearly two years.
IN Langford ever meets Johnson I'll
bet my fortune on the former ] think
so well OF his chance that I'm willing
Stanley Ketchel has gone in for mo-
torhoat racing. Steve has not given up
his automobiles by a Jug fulf
ssTs1 kStehe uaSs has been st N training for six or
land. near the sea. He spent the most
of his leisure time shooting craps and
racing In n motOrbOat-
ketchel may go TO Australia for
fighting trip. He has been anxious for
some time TO go TO England and Europe
and recently Hugh Mcintosh has been
holding out Establishments.
Will Meet Hague.
Harry Lewis, the Quaker City fighter,
who cleaned UP $4,000 out of the ten
battles he had on the other side. nine of
them in Paris and one In England. is go
ing 10 Paris again on October /, where
he Is booked mp for ten more fights. for
which he Is 10 receive n guarantee Of
$500 or 80 per cent out OF each battle.
His first fight viii be with Ian Hague.
the English heavyweight. whom he will
gram Club Of Parts, on the night OF Oc-
tober Is. His manager, Al Lippe. he's
also practically, completed arrangements
for him to fight Tom Thomas the Eng
lish middleweight champion, for twenty
rounds at the National Sporting Club OF
London. the last two weeks In October.
speaking OF the fight conditions T on the
OF good material for fighters among some
OF the French boxers The great trou
BILE i'm Europe Is that man has 90 en-
The army spoils many OF them. They
drink too much, live irregularly and con-
tract bad habits. That was the case with
Adrian Hogan. ] took Hogan In hand
points about the game to make him the
champion az France. although he is only
a welterweight. Next October he must
enter the army.
''If Billy Papke and Stanley Ketchel
cannot get big enough purse 70 fight for
in this country they can go 10 Paris and
battle. Al Lippe, matchmaker OF the
Wagram club over there. says that he
has been authorized to offer purse OF
$40 900 for the men to fight for In
twenty fiye round contest any N.Y., time aftsr
allowed the transportation tickets each
way"
Fits Defers Age.
Although Bob Fitzsimmons did not win
his championship belt till he was 50
was unable to come back.
Boxing experts have many adases
about youth being served and about men
having done their best work In the first
half OF the thirties. In fact. there are
no definite rules that apply TO all boxers,
"Fitz" held the championship undts-
puted for two years, and he was SO when
fries was twenty-four years old when he
beat Fitzslmmons at Coney island. He
was thirty-nve years, two months and
1lneteen days old when johnson wnippea
4. At 30 he is an old man. AT this
same age Fitz was in the zenith OF dis
great power
After the two knockouts which Jeffrtes
imposed on him. the Cornishu,an went
,ut and beat all candidates except PhHa-
ielphia Jack O'Brlcn, with whom he
lrew until the Total perlod OF ms eN-
stence totaled forty-three years. What
,ther fighter In the history OF pngihsm
,an claim such record? None.
Fitzsimmons Is TO be considered all
he moro extraordinary because OF the
weight handicap which he suffered after
he defeated all the Eniddleweights- Never
scaling more than 10 pounds. ne had all
me punching force OF men OF nrty
pounds more heft
AT % Jeffries retired from tho ring
ind rested on his reputarIon- He did
much hunting and fishing. but fdleness
vas his principal occupation ror Six yearu.
,nd when he was induced to tram and
mock the packing out of johnson his
pouch bulged like q submarine boat. He
educed to his old weight after much ef-
ort.
Joe Jeannotte. the colored heavyweight.
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