Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-06
BIG RECEPTION
FOR JOHNSON
Negro Militia and Elk's Bands
and Chicken Feast for
Champion
CUT DOWN 100000 PROFIT
Movement to Prohibit Exhibition
of Moving Pictures of Fight
! Is Growing,

Chicago, July 6.-"Little Africa" has
recovered somewhat from its hysteria
and plans for Jack Johnson's home
coming are being perfected. Thou
sands of negroes are expected to join
the reception party. The eighth in
fantry band, a squad of negroes of the
National Guard and the negro ElkS'
band, will give official tone to the re-
cepton. A special touring car will
be on hand for Jack and his party
and tWenty-siX automobiles will carry
personal friends in parade from the
station to Johnson's home on Wabash
avenue, where his mother will have
ready a chicken feast.
Knocked Out or Disqualified.
Reno, July 6.-"Was Jeffries dis
qualified or was he knocked out?" is
the point Tex Rickard is being asked
by telegraph from several cities to
decide, Rickard is disposed to rule
that the Interference of Jeffries' sec
onds in helping him get up, after the
second knock down, constitutes a dis
qualification. "Jeffries was not count
ed out" said Rickard today, though
| am satisfied he could never have
got up within ten seconds, if his sec
onds had not pushed him up. This as
sistance disqualified Jeffries. ! was try
ing to get between the fighters to stop
the fight on that account when john
son sent him down for a third time.
Fort Worth Draws the Line.
Fort Worth, Texas, July Elm re.
sponse to the request of Mayor Davis
the city commission has passed an or.
dinanse prohibiting the exhibition OF
pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries fight
in this city
Movement Stars in Washington.
Washington, July Ga movement
against the exhibition of the Reno
dsht pictures in the District of Colum
bia has been started. The Rev. DR.
John Compton Ball, pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist church, declared
from his pulpit Sunday that every pos
sible effort would be made to have
the district commissioners prohibit
the exhibition of the Jeffries-J ohnson
fight pictures and all other movins
pictures of prize fights
/ Harrisburg Shuts Out Pictures.
Harrisburg, Pa, July 6.-Mayo,
Meals today issued an order prohibit
ing the showing of the Reno fight pic
lures in this city.
Christian Endeavors Get Busy
! Boston, July 6.-Onicials of thu
Christian Endeayor Society are mucl
pleased today over the result of thei
{ movement started yesterday agains
the exhibition of the pictures of tn,
Jeffries-Johnson fight. Urgent tele
i grams have been sent to all branche
I of the society in the world to continu
the agitation against the pictures
Mayor Fitzgerald said today that Bos
ton ought to take the lead in banisf
ing the pictures of such contests an
he did not think pictures of the fgh
will be exhibited in this city.
Virginia Town Opposed.
Norfolk, Va, July 6.-Mayor Rec
of Portsmouth, Vr., announced toda
that he will not permit the exhibition
of the fight pictures in that city.
Kentucky in Line.
Louisville, KY, July 6.--The John
son-Jeffries fight pictures have bee1
prohibited here.
May Be Barred in South Africa.
! Capetown, July 6.-There is a wide
spread demand here for the prohib
tion in South Africa of pictures of tn
lJeffries-Johnson fight. Signs of ez
Icitement are already evident anon
the negroes on account of Johnson
victory.
Governor Hadley May Prohibit Then
Jefferson City, Mo-, July 6.-Govel
nor Hadley said today that if the ez
hibition of the Jeffries-Johnson figh
pictures starts race riots or produc
public disturbances in the state h
will prevent their display as publ
nuisances.
Maine Will Have None of Them.
Portland, Maine, July 6-The exh
bition of prize fight pictures in Main
IS prohibited by law passed in 1897
j Would Cause Race Riots.
Washington, July 6.-The distric
commissioners today instructed tn
superintendent of police to prohibi
1.-THE exhibition of fight pictures in tn
District of Columbia. The commission
ers say that the exhibition woul
cause repetition of the riotou
scenes of the night of July 4, whel
236 arrests were made.
Jeffres Tacturn and SurIy.
Oakland, Calf, July 6.-Jeffries re
fused to answer the assertions of Mu
doom and others that he is "all in,
before he ever entered the ring. Sun
ly and taciturn, the big fighter mair
talns an almost absolute silence whic
MS brother Jack and his wife are ur