Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-06
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him that he was not the only pebble
on the sand pile If he and Jeffries
cannot agree upon the third man, the
club has the right, according to the
articles of agreement between Jeffries,
Johnson and the promoters, TO name
the third man. Johnson may be get
ting cold feet when he talks of run
ming out of a match because he can
not name the referee, but his $10,0OO
forfeit is up and he will have to let
it be forfeited if he insists UPON be-
ing the whole show. Gleason said so,
and Jack seldom does anything by
halves. 1t looks mighty bad for Jack
Welsh. now that Johnson has declared
himself so flatfootedly.
1t begins to look like Johnson will
not agree to the selection of any man
to referee the fight unless he has alb
solute proof that the man to be chosen
is a niger lover and personal friend
Of the big dinge. Johnson. has abso-
lutely no claim upon the heavyweight
championship, having never fought
anybody who was a heavyweight
champion and, therefore, never having
won the title. and it seems to the aver
age fan that he has been a bit lucky
in carrying his campaign up to the
high notch that resulted in the match
with Jeffries, who is, and probably
will be until death, the heavyweight
champion of the world, If Johnson
wants to run out of the matcn, which
act will vindicate all that has been
said of the saffron hue of the coon,
it is his privilege, but he will not be
permitted to assume the position of
dictator and undoubtedly Jacl; Welsh
will be turned down for no other rea-
son than that Johnson insists that he,
and nobody else shall be chosen to
referee the big fight.
Jimmy Hall, the amateur auto race
driver who is so good that the profess
sionals are trying to have him taken
out of the amateur class, was among
those who did not get excited when the
run on the All Night and Day bank be-
gan a few days ago. Jimmy walked
through the waiting line of panic
stricken depositors and made deposit
of a hundred bucks just to show him
self that he had some nerve left and to
help molify the excited ones outside.
Jimmy always was accustomed to do
ing the right thing at the right time,
and this comes from his desire always
to be original and do the unexpected.
He even bought half a case of Mac
Kenzie's favorite fizzle water after
ward just to punish his own nerve
some.
Cutting the limit of boxing bouts in
Oakland from fifteen to ten rounds may
be one way to appease the wrath of the
opponents of the sport but merely re-
ducing the degree of the offense hardly
ever effects a permanent cure. Ten
rounds will be long enough to satisfy
the Bay City fans, probably, and for
the class of dubs that usually fight over
there it will be entirely too long a route
for the forbearing fans who sit at ring
side Twenty rounds is the reasonable
and satisfactory limit to place on
scraps of average class, and only in
exceptional cases is a longer route
deemed necessary to bring about true
result.
King Hogan has taken Young Rivers
under his managerial wing and will try
to boost him into the featherweight
champion class. If anybody can
turn this trick Hogan undoubtedly will
succeed, as his long years of experience
with champions in the past qualities
him to handle the managerial reins over
any of them. The pair has gone to
San Diego to go into training for a
main event stunt in a few days with
Red Corbett. which Young Rivers
should win in a common canter.