The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-11
What's What in Sports
All the Time
ECHOES OF FIGHT
ARE LONG TOLNE
Other Than Battle Itself Side
lights viii Hold Attention
for Years.
BY W. W. NAUGHroN.


San Francisco. Cal, July s@The
big fight f. past. but - win be a long
time before the echOe.- Of the occasion
Gle away. Apart from the actual
contest between Jeffries and John
son. there were many important side
lights to the affair. ind those. &C
cording TO the interest they hold for
various groups OF men. VIII be sub
come.
For one thing. there was never
such n gathering OF newspaper men
IN the history OF the prize ring We
used to think in the old days at New
Orleans that the press was well rep
resented at every "fisticuff carnival
but there was never time when we
were more than a corporaIs guard
compared to the horde or pencil
pushers that ggOoped down on the
Jeffries-Johnson fight.
But 70 wasn't an occasion for remi-
niscencos The majority OF the
sporting scribes who used to gather
nj the rinEside OF twenty-five. TWEEN
". aye fifteen years ago. are asleep
beneath the daisies and the task OF
describing the progress OF events pu-
riilstic has fallen 10 younger men
While the old faces are sorely
missed By the few OF US that remain.
there Is qualification IN noting that
the same feeling Of comaraderie re-
mains.
or all the elements that went to
make up the Reno crowd there was
none IN which more genuine good fell
lowship prevailed than I'm the news
paper colony
Why do fight critics die. anyway?
Moralists say that pugilism is a
brutal business. and a fellow who
takes his ideas secondhand may be
led 70 believe that the death rate
among glove brandishers Is exceed
inEiy high. yet we have n string OF
cx-champions dating back to thirty
years ago. living and flourishing like
a green bay tree, while a full dozen
newspaper fellows with whom the
writer took notes side by side as late
as the orbett-Fitzsimmons affair,
have been gathered home.
While on the subject Of newspaper
correspondents. I would like TO refer
20 one OF the unpleasantries of the
recent campaign.
johnson. the negro fighter. urged
by n diminutive troublemaker named
Sig Hart. barred several critics from
his training quarters.
.-Culprits'' Ruled OFF.
This should not and could not be IL
AAANNN was II NAWNFA AAlAtA cAhlAAAAliA
among editors. In this particular in
stance e was claimed that the "cul-
prits'' had written things that were
rot So 10 should be left TO the
editors who send men 20 the front TO
inquire into and pass upon questions
OF alleged inaccuracy and to remedy
all evils In a connection Of that kind
III a fighter in training IS TO constitute
himself Judge and jury in a case Of
LII
long sentences for very slight Of
fenses That IS. II prize fighting Is to
continue.
Should there be another fight OF
the century at some time I'm - fu-
ture tt might be as well for our
editors. 20 formulate a little treatise
entitled Hints 20 Champions and
Promoters" Then there viii be less
fear from the press being drowned
in an irrigation ditch.
Which style OF governor do you
prefer7 This Governor Dickerson OF
Nevada while disclaiming to be a
sport. believes that as this noble art
has so many admirers. Il may have
something 20 commend a. The gov
crnor. by virtue Of association with
the rabid adheTents OF the game at
Reno. smoked up" sufficiently to at
tempt a "size up" OF Jeffries and
stronger man and johnson the better
boxer
said Johnson % the governor:
I'D like to spar with you to show
how easy Il is"
Well drawled the governor.
that's ore match I'd be inclined to
stop"
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