The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12

ing the amenities of religious journalism we NIL
advance sufficient examples to sustain our posto,
1t is hardly necessary to state that in open .co.
petition with his white brother in all that NAL
for championship timber or honors the negro h..
seldom had fair show. Public sympathy ha. bo.
always with his white opponent at least in Ann.
lea, and he has rarely had the means to outfit hi,
self thoroughly, to pay a frst-class trainer
aid him in his preparation for his contests II
believe that if the "Cuban Giants" were pernitt.j
to enter the National or American league. Il,
team under proper management, would hold tba
own with the best. They have so often defea+o,
the Lelands and the semi-professional basebon
clubs of Chicago and the United States that =,
are warranted in making this assertion. Nao.
Taylor the colored bicycle rider, was in his do,
the greatest rider that ever circled a track Keza5
the negro sprinter, won the Sheffield HandicaD,
against field that has not had its equal for speed
men in many years. English sporting writers a
the eighteenth century have reluctantly admitt.i4
that if Molineux, the West Indian pugilist in NJ,
encounter with Tom Crib, champion of all En-,
land, had received the fairest of fair play in II,
ring, he would have won his battle.
Peter jackson, when In his prime, was adm.
tedly the peer of the greatest pugilists that ever
entered a ring After him-and some of them hi,
contemporaries-wereG George Dixon, Joe WalcoH
the Barbados demon ] e Cans, Joe Jeanets
Sam Langford and Jack johnson, the conquero
of Jim Jeffries, and now champion of the world
Joe Cans was a broken down man when Battling
Nelson took from him the lightweight champion
ship. In his prime, Nelson would have had no
show with Cans, and, on form, we believe JACK
Johnson could have beaten Jeffries at his VEN
best
1t is admitted by amateur and professional ath
etes that the prize ring calls for the greatest test
of strength, endurance and agility of any SUSTAINED
exercise known to man, and, that in the ring. thu
negro, when in condition, is what's popularity called
q "Crackerjack." Nor is the Indian to be despise
for endurance and swiftness of foot. Keep hin
away from temptation and dissipation, and the In
dian, for speed and endurance, is the equal Of the
best In his day Keronwe white Eagle, the
Caughnawauga Indian, was the fastest long-dis
tanoe runner in Canada, and the Dominion was
and is famous for turning out great athletes. Ben
net Deerfoot) of the Tuscarora reservation, neai
Buffalo, cleaned out all England when he went
there in the early ffties. Longboat the Nississau
gan Indian holds the record for the Boston Mara
thon, and would have won the London Marathon
from Hayes, if he had taken care of himself Jim
my George the Beaverton Indian, won the Warl
Trophy the week before last at Toronto, Canada
from field of thirty-fve crack runners, and The
second man, the man on his heels, was another
Indian, an Onandagan, named Levi Jameson.
The white man, physically, can lay claim to no
superiority over the negro or the Indian. We m'
satisfied that if the negro and Indian trained
conditioned and nourished as carefully and as
well as the white, the negro and the Indian would
equal and perhaps outclass the Caucasian.