The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-02
SOME NEAR-THOUGHTS
ON THE RENO PINK TEA
BY JOHNNY BURKE.

Say, the barber shop where I gets tor
tured three times a week IS Jes' lousy
quacity Is that thick In the air you can
cut 1t with razor (sonc kind of razor.
not the kind they use on mel, Every
barber has got 'cm lined up different
from every other barber, an they eases
their deliberations into their helpless Gus
toners without mercy.
One fcllcr says to me, he says. Does
I think the fight is on the square,"
] says. mcbbc yes. mcbbc no..
We'll" says he, confidential I'll tell
YOU" he says. IT'S this way: IF the
outen them pitchers to pay for the opcry
house. Seem as guy done paid
$3.50. 900 fer the pitcher privilege ] can't
dope II out any wise but that Jeff's got
THAT amt the on'y reason neither"
says the man what conducts the indulsi.
tion I'm the second chair. Now, III tell
you the real thing I'm hep TO all they's
op the dope menu They can't tell me
that It amt n frame. Down in Beau
mont. Texas. where L onct was. n niger
hates to do it. but they's sioh nice tree
handy. that they can't resist. Now. You
take II from me. Jeir aln't Gofn' TO night
no more nohow-he's the rctlrIn' kid
lay down an pretty soon, when JEFF don't
fight no more, he's champion apnyhow,
So the black man is I'm $4,000, sides
bein champecn, an 1t don't hurt nm
none"
Another fcller says the fights got 10
nc on the level or they'd have to build
extensions 10 the sidewalks in the south
fer white folks TO walk on.
7 notes with TREMENDOUS glee that both
fighters is In the pink Of condition,
though l can't figgcr out very well how
Johnson can get into that colorcd con-
dition, Annyhow, that's the news from ron,
about it, neither: soein' that both OF EN-
has been trainip hard that away; why.
one day down in Ben Lemon Jcil ne
runs "A hundred yard dash, Think OF
that! Runnln' a hundred yards Is sure
enough to put anybody In condition.
Sides one day he paints the canvas
floor Of his trainin' ring. Paints 1t with
prize fight can't do them kind of tralnin
stunts without scttin' into condltion'
what he went an done ony Friday. lie
plays cards till o'clock, tell you,
that's the kind OF trainin that prize
fighters is made out Of.
been KILN his fool self trainin. Down
at his trainin' quarters he puts in a
whole day of the hardest kind OF work
All day long he throws rocks at bull
frogs I been wortdcrin' since that time
wha,d a happened Of one OF them rocks
had bounced back off the bullfroSs back
and hit johnson on the shins.
about prize fight is the way Jack Lon
don hands out the pills. Jack says Ter
one thing that Johnson has got lot OF
''protoplastlo vigor" lie admits that
this makes Johnson pretty damn mad.
an / wouldn't blame anybody Ter get
tin mad at that kind OF slam. Jack
proceeds TO clucidate this protoplasic
ltazas in this wise:
MIR Johnson not only possesses a vast
denl OF protoplastic vigor. but also he
is hipernimous. He lacks not one lota
of the lamoforousncss TO render him
lmpcrvious to kaliSmnstions. a man so
endowed with bugoinitis as Mr.. Johnson
is certainly could never be afflicted with
sagalosis. That is out of the question
would prefer TO think that Johnson Is
hilorlopian rather than pcrginarius.
Jacks sure there with bells when IT
comes TO dehorncd English.
Another ole friend Of mine is Willie
in the -hcnroost Rex Beach. Beach is
scttin' siraddle of the sawhorse an chop
pin off gigantic chunks OF concentrated
words about the intutional psychological
transcendentalism OF the situation. ReXy
is that grieved he can't scarcely sleep o
nights because ony ten per cent of the
people don't want prize fights an the
rest of The people cry fer en- like kids
cry for Castorla, The thing what hurts
dear ole ReXy is that the ten per cent
has got the damon hitch on the other
ninety per cent, Rexy is keen on mora
discussion Mebbc you can't eggsackly
onderstan' how moral discussions connect