The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-24
JOHNSON WANTSTO
 FIGHT IN NEW YORK
Prize Fighting May Be Prohibited Among the
 White Race
By JEFF THOMPSON

New York September 23.-(Special.)-l| understand that Jack Johnson is casting a longing eye on Madison Square Garden and is even willing to meet Sam Langford in order to get some of the juicy pckings which are going in New York under the Frawlev law The fact that J. Arthur Is under contract with Hugh Mcintosh to go to Australia would not necessarily stand in the way of Johnson's fighting in New York. If Mcintosh was not willing, as he probably will be, the champion is not in the habit of letting a little thing like a contract stand in the way of the pile of dollars which he would gather by meet ing the Tar Baby in New York.
 A fight between the two blacks sure would be a money maker. 1 could never figure where a good little man had chance with q good big man like John son, but he certainly would give him a fight and there's lots of people who iouot Johnsons a0lity to put Sam away.
 Talking of such fight recalls rather novel suggestion l heard the other day It was made by fight fan who despairs of ever seeing a White Hope who can beat Johnson developed.
 "The thing today he said, lis to pass d law confining prize fighting to negroes. Make it d felony for q white man to fight l for money" That certainly would fix the White Hope trouble.
 1 It would not surprise me to see the l Frawley law so amended by the next leg l islature as to eliminate professional flgat- ins altogether. The way things have gone since the law went into effect has con vinced many good friends of boxing that | it is impossible to stop the betting and | rowdyism at prize fighting. Former Pres l ident Roosevelt is one of these men who says. "Without this element back of ihe law there is little chance for it to stand. ' l Death has taken two well known refer ees recently-Eddie Smith, who has ref creed many important fights on the coast, and Malachi Hogan of Denver, died with | in few days of each other.
 | 1t is a grea: pity that James F. Suli- | van felt compelled 10 retire from ,he state boxing commission. If any nan could have saved the game by making 1t clean Sullivan is the man.
 Mrs Ellen Spencer Hussey, q leading woman lawyer of Washington, was l fel- low passenger with Jim Jeffries on his re- turn from a trip to Alaska and thus gives her impressions of the big fellow:
 He was the-what do you call it in slang-the whole show wherever ws stopped, Mrs. MuSSey Sald. ne Dig fellows coming was heralded at every port where we put in. and the Presideni of the United States couldn't have at tracted more attention
 Mrs. Mussey first encountered the big fighter when she went to call upon an old friend, Walter Clarke, governor of Alaska, for many years a newspaper man in Washington. Jeffries was at the gov ernor's residence in Juneau buying H. cense to shoot moose.
 'The governor told him that he hadn't many applications for licenses for thai
 game since it cost $2oa to shoot two moose,'' Mrs. Mussey said.
 ." Do I get my money back if don't shoot the moose?' the fighter asked
 "Oh, we'll here5s your s70o. I guess can afford it. he told the governor. whe. informed that there vas no rebate" She learned on the homeward voyage that he got his two moose, too. On his way ba ,l
 he spent most of his time pacing up anc , down the deck like some big cased tiger that wanted to get loose. He seldom said anything to the passengers unless .-. costed. Then he was pretty genial.
 ''I don't approve of prize fighting" Mrs
 Mussey concluded 'but think he woulc De real nice man If hc was in some other business"