The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-08
NEXT Big BOUT
STILL IN DOUBT
AJCK OJHNSON ACCUSED OF
DODGING LANGFORD.
Latter Alone willine-Burns May
Get Match with New Negro
Champion.
JETFRIES REMAINS SILEN'


San Francisco, Aug. S.-They are
stin taking bout the heayywei ght
fuss in the sagebrush country and
from present appearances there will
be nothing to supplant ii as a pugi-
listic theme for some time to come.
With Jeffries engaged in pisca-
torial pursuits and preserving sill
ence that is as absolutely golden as
Jack Johnson's famous gilded giggle,
the champion is the man that gossips
have to do with.
II is interesting to note the range
OF the opinions expressed in regard
to Johnson's fighting talent. Some
OF the best judges-or at any rate,
men who by experience in the ring
and out of it should be the best
equipped to Judge such things-wil
have 1t that Jack is an accident.
One past champion has said that
johnson don't know how to lead,
and that he wouldn't have had as
much chance as bubble in stoke
hole IL he had happened along dur
ing former championship disputes.
Vain talk this. In this connection
the writer would say in reply to the
question, Would johnson have
beaten So-and-So when So-and-So
was at his best?" That there il no
means of telling. 1t is very foolish
to pursue any line of argument that
cannot be settled by bet. II a
person were required to hold the
stakes until it could be determined
whether the present Jack oJhnson
could have licked John L. Sullivan
of 1885, he might in all safety re-
gard the funds in hand as his own
personal property.
Best of His Time.
You can't bridge the years in that
wap You can't compare fighters of
different generations and arrive at a
sane conclusion, and the best you
can say for johnson or any other
champion Is that he is the best of
his era.
Another thing. The supremacy of
the races in the pugihstic line was
not definitely determined at Reno.
The result was only a temporary
triumph for the negro. II black
horse wins the Futurity this year. IL
doesn't mean that black yearlings
will be the safest investment OF the
next big sale. A bay or a gray may
be the champion three-year-old of
the following season.
AS to Johnson's fighting. He may
not be able to lead, as some of the
savants claim. and he may not COM
pare. point to point, with other
world-beaters that hae strutted for
q time as champions, but he is a
pugilistic wonder Just the same. He
Is q natural fighter, II there ever was
one. Just think of all the professors
Of fistcuffs who we're coaching JEFF
ries as to how to dodge the famous
right uppercut. Yet the right scarce
ly figured in the result. It was a
left upercut that Johnson worried
and weakened and wore down jeff
ries with.
The Next Big Bout.
And how about the prophecy that
II Jeffries ever got close enough to
the tantalizing negro, there would
be short shift for the hope of the
black race? Why, it was johnson
who courted close milling, and it
was Johnson who scored 80 per cent
of the credits while battling breast
to breast.
Will there be another big match,
and IL 50, when?
b That is hard one.
There may be a Jack Johnson,
Tommy Burns contest in England or
Australia, or there may be a John
son-Langford fight at some point in
this country where the bars are still
down.
Johnson by the way, is in no
hurry for the test with Langford.
something which is passing strange.
So far Langford has not shown
anything which suggests that he has
IL in him TO tame Johnson's stubborn
pride, yet II is as plain as the nose
on your face that Johnson is lodging
the other negro.
Is oJhnson Afraid?
II II Is not SO, why Is he always
Wiling to back some other fighter
against IAngford? Why does he
keep insisting on high stakes in the
belief that Langford will not be able
to command the sinews Of war?
In every match that Johnson has
engaged in UP TO the present there
was not mistaking his earnestness of
purpose.
Malaria Causes Loss Of Appetite.
Iha Old Standard GROVES TASTE