The evening world., 1911-05-31
Jack Johnson Gives Up Idea OF
Becoming an Aviator, as, He
Says, "Scootin' Around In the
Air isn't Any Business for a
Fighter"


I'm I've made up my mind that
/ certainly am not going Up
IN the air. No qeroplnne for mel"
Thought YOU intended going after
sky records / said.
HUH exclaimed the champion. IT
been thinking Il over. / was going to
buy one Of those bird machines and
weet down and saw q fellow 20 up In
The I oame back and sat heah
= ~ Word building and watched
those fellows working around on that
nsw skyscraper across the street. Look
- en-. walking around on those
pianks. Every time I see those fellows
working around 800 feet up in the air II
gives me the crceps. Then I think how
I'd feel n / Vas up about 5000 feet my
self an lookin' down. No. subj Not for
LII Artha Tiny Johnsonl
Suppose ] fell out OF one OF those
things. Would anybody hold out a hand
% catch me7 weigh 235 pounds
stripped now and go In my clothes.
The kindest friends I've got in the
world would sidestep mighty quick to
set out Of the way. They'd look up an
see me coming an one fcllow'd say:
Who's dat fallin' down so fast?' The
other fellows say: That must be Jack
Johnson Then the first fellow'd say
Excuse me! There's going to be a
earthquake here In a minute. Abs In
. hurry an All KANT wait Then,
I'd come down and make q big dent
b the ground.
Up In Boston," Jack went on. warm.
ing TO the subject. they showed me
a little stone with . brass plate on II
mat said: Here Warren Fell I DON,
want EN- to put up no brass plates
around the country anywhere saying:
Here johnson Fell / don't know who
ehat fellow Warren was. but he can
aavs all that sort OF fame. I don't
SAINT It. They amt going to name any
aoles In the GROUND after me.
No. sub! The little old
VIII do me. II l got throwed out OF my
automobile I'd jes, slide along the
ground and maybe get scratched up a
nttle. ] wasn't born to be killed by An
automobile. and there isn't q chance.
less one fell on me. But that scootin'
around In the clouds-that isn't any bust
ness for a fghter.'
CA4 WALLAcH. brother of one
Leach Cross, writes to let us In
on the tip that Matt Wells is
really . good fighter. lie has quite n
attls boost for Wells. And h he
goes on to say:
I'm positive that Leach will win. as
"eiiss style Is one that will not bother
.eaen very much. and any one that
Leach can hit with either hand In In
aahger OF being afflicted with a sudden
Apse OF memory
NOW Isn't 1t Sam who Is AFFLICTED with
suden lapse OF memory7' fail TO
recoiiect an occasion when Leachie has
done much damage to a clever boxer
uorisoa1 Mcfarland. Goodman, Young
ArnAs eeo). Leachie's forte is slam
ming sauggers. And Matt Wells, ac-
cerdinS to all the dope from the other
slde' outboxed clever Freddy Welsh I'm
eishteen of the twenty rounds they
fought In England.
n NoWER 10 several queries: Ac-
"a cord.ng 10 telesraohed accounts
the sponge was thrown up from
Oakland Frankie Burns's corner after
ms ringing OF the bell for the beginning
81 the seventeenth round. CONSEQUENTLY
he technical knockout IS credited "a
"oigast In the seventeenth. A round
. four minutes. divided into the three
minutes OF fighting and the one min.
!tes rest. Had the sponge been tossed
curing Inc minute rest Il would hay.
Boon N the sixteenth round.
NND Killed outright and seven In,
Jured In the great automobile &C,
cadent yesterday at Indianapolis
BIZ what OF It? New speed record,
were made. the winner pulled down 1
$4,000 prize, and the AFFAIR was a grand
lip roaring success. As for the dead
they were paid to take chances. An
race promoter viii tell you so on IN
day after the event.
IT'S q long time since New York
prospect for a baseball pennan
looked SO good. The Giants ar
working like Troians end getting 4
their best licks early in the season
where. according TO all dope and prece
Dent. II ounis most. II they can onl
keep up the pace, now
~ ATsTLING NELSON has been .
quiet OF late that some one Ia
suggested he must be writing an
other book. advice on how 10 con
back" ! suppose. Bat has all OF Il
theories