Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-09
SILENCE RE|GNS
3 IN FIGHT WORLD
White PugAists Keep Quiet
While Johnson and Lang
ford Joke the Public.
NOW UP TO KAUFMAN
TO GET BUSY
Fans Would Be Glad to See
Californian HurI Challenge
at Negro Champion.
By James J. Corbett.

NEW YOR1~ October S.-ISpecial-l-
What is the matter with the white heavy
weights and their managers and press
agents? If it were not for Johnson and
Langford in their semi-monthly stunt of
kidding the public with bet million
challenges, the dear old public. would
think that the game had died with Jeff's
defeat at Reno.
Not chrp out of either Al Kaufman
or his adviser. Billy Delaney. They allow
LangfOrd TO go TO the front as If he were
the logical candidate for championship
honors, which he is not by long shot,
and take a back seat themselves. or
course, Billy is a wise old fox. and prob
ably knows best what TO do with his
man, but the people who follow the fight
ing game have come to look upon kauf-
man as their hope and salvation, and
would like to know where they stand in
the matter.
The public is not interested in all the
CAB between the two colored boxers
What does interest the fight followers is
who will be the first white man to go
after johnson and try to win back the
championship. Naturally Al IS the man
to whom they look The fight with Lang
at Philadelphia, while not one-Sided by
any means. resulted in victory for
Kaufman. and, as the winner, Al Is
the man entitled to first chance at the
champion. LangfordS funk out OF the
proposed bout with kaufman should put
MIN in the discard so far as mis- claims
10 championship class are concerned.
Lang Not Out of Race.
Bill Lang. while disappointing his adj
mirers in the six-round affair with kauf-
man, is not entirely out of the running
by any means. although in no shape to
think of lighting for some time to come
The Australian had all the better of the
argument up to the end of the second
round, when he broke his hand, and
broke it so badly that he will more than
likely be out of the game for at least two
months longer. Bill fought sJamely with
mis- broken duke and took mis- medicine
gracefully. He has made no excuses, but
ne wants another chance to show the
American people that they have not seen
him at his best. To prove his claims, he
will fight any man in the heavyweight
division, and no color or creed is barred
Sam langford can find some work here
Hugh Mcintosh still thinks the Aus
tralian is kaufmans master, and IS Will
ing to make a substantial wager on his
man in a twenty or twenty-five round
quarrel with the Californian. 1t is quite
natural that Mac should feel this way.
He brought Bill to this country. and
knows just what the Australian champ is
capable of with the gloves, and figures
that the Philadelphia tryOut was not a
Gair test of his mans ability.
Bill had his chance against kaufman,
and was unfortunate to have met with an
accident, so that he could not do justice
to himself. and the verdict was against
him. The public does not care how many
accidents happen in a fight. and will not
listen to excuses. Results are what count,
and the fight must go down on the books
as victory for Kaufman and defeat
for Lang. Personally. l think 1t is q
close thing between the two. and in
finish fight the betting should be at evens.
However, it will be some time before the
Australian Will be able to enter the ring
again, so that puts him out of the rum
ming for the time being. even had the
decision been in his favor.
Few Aspirants for Title.
Langford funked out of his go with
Kaufman, and there are no other heavy
weights who have shown class enough to
be given serious consideration. with the
exception of Tommy Burns. and he has
not been talking much fight lately. 1t
was reported short while ago that Tom
my had injured his knee badly in a la
crosse match in Canada-so severely, in
fact. that he had given up hope of getting
into condition for his match with Lang
lord in London next December, and had
rumored that Burns has decided to retire
from the ring permanently.
Who, then, remains but Kaufman to
night the champion-or at least is there
any other who should be given preference
over the Californian? AL has been i'm
proving steadily in all departments Of
the game. and while he may be no mar