The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-08
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GREETED
As HERO
G CHIC COS LITTLE
AFRICA GIVES CHAMPION
FRANTIC RECEPTION
HOMECOMING WAS
TRIUMPHAl ENTRY
Brings Back The DacOn,' 0ut
Fsasts on Chicken and
Waishml|yon
(By Associated Press.)

Chicago, July SACK johnson
champion prize fighter of all cham
pions, is once more at home witt
his NANNY yand his automobile
In Rome, a returning victor was lei
into his native city with his spolls
Through a breach in the wall. and
aaoring compatriots rent the air wit.
acclaim. Today John Arthur John
son, best of modern gladiators with
TIE modern cestus, came into the city
with his following through solid
wall OF people and ethical Chicago
Lined miles of sidewalks, with solid
ranks to catch a glimpse OF the man
10 one has ben found who could whir
1t was so much after his owr
heart this coming into his own--thal
he champion announced all tentative
pans for the future were Off
Sam Langford?r he asked "You
make me laugh. am not running
around now loking for fights. Lei
..angford put up his $4,000 first, ther
ne can talk. Just now am going tc
rest. | am going to New York Sun
day afternoon to begin thirty weeks
vaudeville tour--at least have that
many at my disposal If II looks like
d good thing, | may accept offers
to 90 to Europe. a.
"Quit? Well. Ill tell you sonny
never told any one ! would quit, but
!. looks as though I'd have to, doesn
III"
Crowd Formed Living Wall
Five thousand members of his race
and big sprinkliDg of white persons
made the living wall at the Chicago
ald Northwestern Railway station
when Johnson arrived at . p. m. 70
ice were swept away like chaff when
the immense fighter, looming above
the crowd and with grim look,
fought his way through hand clasps
aud good natured pats on the back
to q waiting automobile. A line oil
larlshly decorated automobiles con
tanning newspaper writer's (amply car
ea for at Johnson's personal requesD
cllowei his machine until suddenly II
vas lost.
Five minutes later with Iush and
roar he shot out of somewhere in
his new 100 miles an hour car and
dashed rSadly home where mis- mother
Mrs. Tiny Johnson, and members Of
his family waited In the midst oi
thousands for his home coming.
Flags waved, an ornately attired
drum major OF colored regiment OF
tate militia swayed to the rhythm
Of America" and Mister Johnsing
turn me loose" and other similarly
,atriotic airs, and in the midst of a
lighty roar of "Oh, you Jack John
SON. the champion alighted at his
own Intel
Champion In Tears frf s aug
He pushed his way into the house
amid deatening roars, aud with real
tears streaming down his face, en-,
bsaced his mother. Behind him q
compatriot struggled through crowd
bearing aloft smoked bacon side
symbolic of Johnson's own message
home: I'm coming home with the
bacon
You doan' need no bacon chile.
the aged Mrs Johnson cried. "Af
want to tell you l'se got mighty fine
chicken cookin' out heah in the kitch
IN and you knows how you likes wat
ahmellon? Veal have got some
iandies. Jack"
To night Johnson will attend a ban
quet. He says he is too busy having
good time TO be bothered by re
plevin suit filed today by George W
Little his former manager, for a 81,
200 ring. His future plans, he says
can be outlined only generally and
this is how he generalized them.
Wants To Drive Racer
Sleep some. eat a pile OF good eat
ahles-and drive his racer. II re
mains to be seen whether the thous
ands of negroes who choked the
street in front of his Wabash avenue
home for hours and kissed and patted
his automobile when they could moi
reach him, will allow him to dispose
Jf himself thus easily
AS to the fight. he has adopted q
now answer to inquirers. 1t Is nod
knowing wink and smile of de
rreciation--an gold teeth. AS to his
future, he himself says It:
Il certainly would like to stay
right here and don't know but what
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