Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-27
KAUFMAN HOPE
OF WHITE RACE
Delaney Predicts That in a Few
Years He Will Be Ready
to Defeat Johnson.
HE IS COMING RAPIDLY
warwick of the Ring" Scouts Story
That Jeffries Was Doped Before
the Reno Battle.

Chicago, July 27-Billy Delaney,
''the Warwick of the prize ring" and
Matt Larkin, whose confidence in De
laney led him to win SIS, 900 on Jack
Johnson, were the guests of their
friend, Charles Comiskey yesterday
and passed most of the day in the
White Sox circle. In the morning De-
laney visited the home of his recent
protege and met the mother and sis
tiers of the champion and in the after
noon found time to call on "Parson"
Davies, whom he had known for 80
years and who now is mending slowly
after a long siege of sickness at the
residence of his niece, Mrs Harry Will
son, in Tourney street
81 called at Johnson's place more out
of curiosity than anything else,'' said
Delaney. Il wanted to see how the big
lad was situated at home and l was
surprised at the comfortable. not to
say elegant, provision he has made for
his relatives. l was more surprised
still when his old nanny told me that
every night at O'Clock Jack called her
up over the long distance from New
York and told her how he was and how
he was behaving himself. You've got
to give it to him for that even if you
don't fancy him for champion"
Jeff's Charge Comes Late.
Delaney had little to say about the
recent battle. upon the result of which
he is credited with exerting "a great
moral influence" He could not believe
that Jeffries was at this late date TAX
ing up the dope" story, with the start
of which he had nothing to do and
which he tacitly discredited when ex-
cuses were first put forward for his de-
feat. No he said, "Jeffries cannot
have been quoted correctly when he
was made to say that he was got at
on the eve of battle.
His first excuse, the nervous col
lapse story, was much better one, and
1 would rather believe that he is suck |
ing to that if he is talking at all. If he
is looking for a chance to show that |
a battle, as his friends suggest, to |
bring him back to the championship |
argument, he can win a good bet for |
himself by beating Al Kaufman. if
there is any chance of arranging and |
bringing off a meeting.
eff they're looking for a white mans |
hope there's the fellow they ought to |
be talking about-Kaufmann He can |
whip any white man in the world to- /
day. That leaves him far behind John
sons class now, but Johnson may come |
back to him some day, say in the next
three years.
Thinks Well of Kaufmann.
Kaufman is better man than he |
has been given credit for. He is big
and young and strong, and as game as
they make them. The rest of it should
come to him with experience. I don't |
claim that it is possible to make Kauf
mann as good as Johnson is today, but
you know how fast these colored fell
lows back up when they start going
that way, and how quickly prosperity
spoils them. 1t is natural to expect
Kaufman to improve as he goes on,
anu lHdI III dUOuJ lQTee years
now he will meet Johnson coming back
this way
81 have nothing to do with Kauf-
mann or any other fighter. AS / said
in Oakland, am through with the
game. l turned Kaufman over to Bob
Deadly of Philadelphia. think Bob is
making mistake in putting him up
against Langford, as he is liable to
leave bad impression after six rounds
with that tough customer, although l /
would fancy him to beat Langford over
a route even now. l think he ought to
be saved and pointed for Johnson.
There is nobody else in sight worth
on the same day with the 4
big, black fellow
If Delaney lost any prestige through
his esquiring the big spade in the Reno
battle, there was no evidence of it in
Chicago. Many Of Jeffries' most ardent
admirers, men who fell hard with the
white mans hope, swarmed on him and
him on his judgment and
the candid way in which he handed it
put before the fight. y