The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-02

was the expression that speech froze
on my lips II wasran awkard half
minute. SO taken back was | that
couldn't think Of q blessed thing to
say, while all the time | was pray
ing fervently for him to say some
thing. He didn't. At the end of half
a minute he abruptly tuned his back
on ME and the conference ended. 1t
was net till had seen him in scenes
enacted with others that I4cane to-
understand, and low | take great JOY
in watching beaming. innocent PEI
aonages go up 10 the slaughter OF an
introduction with the biz fellow. Now.
under o. dirary circumstances when
so received by an ordinary man, one
would be likely to say, You little in
significant snire. who are you TO
treat me in this fashiou?o hut YOU
don't say II to jeff don't know
why, urless It is that he Is not little
and insignificant. also, possibly, deep
down IN ones sIblmin& SELF Is a
sudden remembrance that life is
sweet AM the siln gc1d to lcok upon.
Not q Pose.
Now II all the foregoing were a
rose On the big fighters part, II II
were a change OF manner noted in re-
cent years the public would have
some cause CT complaint against the
brusqueness and hls fooling OF audi
ences at fae tanning camp. But this
Is no pose ON his part. II has always
been his way, since the first time
he came into The public eye, a raw
younster Of % down in Los Angeles.
Nor does this peculiar attitude OF his
proceed from shyness or embarrass-
ment.
Modest he & AMI unassuming
with no touch Of tie braggart about
him. but he is not shy lie Is merely
himself. with the stseEgTh Of charac-
ter to be himself. A pecullae self,
granted but, still himself. In hrs way
he Is an iron nran, s.inp.e and quiet
ana repcgaful and r1t greGarious in
wide way. lie feels no impulse 10
be hail fellow well met with Tom
Dick and Harry, and he is honest
scough nst TO simulate feeling he
does not possess. All the same. il
is darnei hard ON The public.
1t Is because Jeffries Is misunder-
sts1d that eomc OF the nearthlnking
fight dopers have raised a question
winch they lire at one Unexpectedly
with all TIE confidence that II is an
un.i 8wei able C.nurd lign. III he Is
so afrsid Of q crowd they say, that
ne d5nt dan tain teItfe 20J spec
.atcrs. Well. wiia. under t.e an is
he going to do Wien he faces 10000
! y. ectatols the day Ct the f.slt?"
Yet, the IlsxeF Is SIMPLE. He has
opsht before some vcry sizable
prosas ere row and he has never
81. wn aug evidence cf stage fright.
,1sher thing Is th4t he u a thinker
a ssless man Is rsnssly a thinker. and
/ le.suse Jsillies 0ss not blurt out all
he KNOWS to the first cbance-comer
! Is no sign that he d3cs not know a
great deal back there behind those
searching black eyes.
Johnson the Opposite.
Quite q contrast is care-free happy
Jack johnson. Ncbcdy was ever more
gregarisus than he. eves happier to
igreet cid friends and make new ones
i He likes cr0wds, thrives upon them
and IN turn doos his bess to glye them
a good time. Let him deci.e on a
celtala day. that he is not gcing TO
4 spar and then inform him 200 persons
have jocrneyei all the way cut to his
tamn 10 sc him work, depend upon
III, Jchrsn couSdn't let them 20
away disappointed Out woul6 80 the
word 70 his sparring pa tness ami a
few ml-utes later he would be In the
thlck Of a ten or twelve round exk.
bitten. AT his training camp johnson
10 always in the thick OF things. Us
lually he Is -hief entertainer Wheth-
"a In making mrnir, playing games,
lprosidl-s s.. mock tf.als ef spinning
patns. aud always his voice Is raised
to others, inviting tflem to kick In
i qna have ngs9d time.
J On the Fourth these two st angoly
different men come together for the