El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-16

lost it to Tom Hueston- Until month
ago Hueston also was pool champion,
but then he ran across jerome Keogh
and that changed matters again. Then
Calvin Demarest was king of the 49,
balk billiards for day or So That was
grabbed by Harry Cline Next George
Sutton lost the 49, championship TO
Willie Hoppe.
My Dear Wife: I have a very i'm
portant business engagement at San
Francisco on July and 1 may have
to stay over for day Or two
Loving husbands with a bit Of sport
ing blood in their veins, have begun
to figure it out, this necessary big ex-
cuse. And wives have not fully tum-
bled TO it. And so it ever is, just be-
fore the big fight.
If there is anybody from FL Paso go
ing to the Jeffries-Johnson fight at
Emeryville July 4, it is a secret But
surely many folk will go, slip away
in the night in response to some tele-
gram from that San Francisco house"
The exodus is sure to come.
Already the city is rife with ring
talk. Hotel Hobbies, street corners, be-
ween-the-acts-all serve opportunity
| for a chat about it. Foremost authori-
ties, uninterested in the coming battle
have refused to venture even a guess.
1t is all ''if," and that 'ff' applies
| both ways. IF Jeff comes back ana
eff Johnson trains properly" On those
| queries hang the whole matter.
Billy Papke has given out a classy
interview in which he says something
about coming battles, and gives his
views about the color line. Here is
Billy's dope:
1T is my one ambition to again win
the middleweight championship of the
world. and l regard my match with
Frank Klaus as merely a stepping stone
toward fight with Ketchel, whom
am confident 1 can defeat Klaus is a
tough young fellow and Ketchel is far
better at the present time than most
people believe; but 1 am sure 1 can
beat both of them.
If l win the championship there is
no chance for Langford or any other
negro to get it from me, because I
have never fought negro and I never
will, unless it would be as Jeffries Is
doing-to return the title 20 the white
race / do not believe in encOura gins
negroes in the fight game by giving
them matches. l once refused $4,000
to fight Langford. and there is no rea-
son why L should fight him in the flu
ture unless. as I say, il would be to
take the title from negro"
Ye gods of war-and old kind of war
don't the prize fighter and the pro-
mOter have a deep enough drag on the
coin of the realm? Doesn't the low, ig-
norant man who punches and receives
punches get enough lucre for his low
browed work. Evidently he does not,
neither his trainer
OF all the colossal gall ever dis
played by any promoter of any kind Of
sport is that recently developed by one
Sam Berger. For unaduIterated nerve
he has all others faded; he is the prize
pup, the one and only of his brand.
This man Berger is trying to sell some
thing which other promoters often pay
to be used, namely the dope" of Jeff
ries's training Can 1t be beaten? No,
and once again, no.
And the worst of it is, Sam Berger
seems TO be getting away with this, the
latest sporting graft. He has formed
selling news and photographs of the
big fellow in action. punching the bag
or hiking out into the woods. This sort
of matter always has been free spoil
or the sporting press writers; promot-
ers ever have thrown more of such
trash at their feet than any wise
editor would use. But now Sam Ber-
ger wants pay for it.
Be it known that the sporting pub-
lie wants no press agent matter about
this coming fight. The man with for
mulating ideas about who's who in the
coming battle wants facts. not dope
DisDafcheS from Ben I.OmOnd told Of