The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-10
LONDON WRITERS.
ROAST JOHNSON
Critic Says He Is Afraid to Meet
Langford, and Never
Whipped Coed Man.
BY RICHARD DAHLeREN
bic to The Tribune.

Special Cable TO The Tribune.
LONDON. Sept. 9.-Americans are very
much In evidence in British sports this
season. H. f. Gissing and F. l. Rams
dell, the great American runners, are
constantly winning and will take home
with them varied and valuable collec-
ton OF cups and medals. They seem TO
be the superiors at their distances 10
anything we have on this side. Withal
they are quiet. gentlenianly young fell
Of their consistent winning. II is no
secret that despite the proverblal Brit
ish fair play" the average British man
does not enjoy seeing his men beaten by
outlandere
The Germantown cricket team OF Phil
adelphia is having a most successful trlp-
by their run-getting ability their sharp
fielding and fine bowling.
The American negro. Jack Johnson IS,
Of course, a figure here. He has gone to
Paris TO train for his fight with Bonn
bardier Wells. which has been set back
for October 2. Jack Is not taking Wells
seriously, and this Is really the only
possibility that he may win II he catches
Jack out Of condition.
The darky is not popular with the Eng
lish sporting writer's. The Sportsman
NEGRO boxers are looming large just
now, a fact assisted by the. unfortunate
match ratified between Johnson and and
In the past. but they have never had such
day before. and II we were TO believe
everything we heard at their training
quarters We would believe that the day
OF the white man was past. gone beyond
recall.
"Ihe great fault Of the colored man is
that he has no due sense tSs Of
any colored boxers was afflicted with
the the same fault He could not keep the
capital r. out OF II. try as hard as he
might and those who have followed him
are even worse"
II was" writes Weekly Dispatch rep
resentatire. present at Billy Papke
training quarters one day when old 5St BOO
| There Is nothing small about Bob. He
| is big Of frame and big OF talk. To hear
| him one would have thought the negro
was the only man In the. world. and the
| worst Of 1t was he could say nothing.
Johnson was champion; then there vas
Langford, McVea and Jeanette or the
white men the Jess said I,tl1e the b, better. tier ro,
II he cared to do SO and II he trained for
| 1t carefully. There Is: OF courseSa very
remote possibility OF Wells winning.
and they will again. but on form John
I SON Is capable OF knocking him out just
when be thinks be viii.
| 'And mind you II BY no means fol-
lows that Johnson is the best OF the coll
ored boxers, He Is by no means anxious
to meet Langford again. and the tar
| baby had by no means tho best or tno
dea! when he met a fellow negro In Paris
| recently.
| "If we go into Johnsons record we
find that the men he beat were Tommy
| Burns and Jim Jeffries. never was and
has BEEN No one could make Burns
ont to be a world beater at his best, but
he happened to be the best just at the
| time when the white men were absolutely
no good at ALL The late Jem Mace fought
negroes and beat them: so did Tom Cribb.
Our boxers. however. appear to forget
/ that an opponent has anything but jaw
| to punch at. and as result the body
escapes punishment
| johnson allowed Tommy Burns to
punch ct his stomach, but Burns was
never a world beater and the upper cut
| he got as soon as the contest started
| took all the steam out of him. The
body. though. Is the weakest part OF
a negro. with the exception Of the shin.
and hacking Is forbidden under
| Queensberry rules the ribs and front OF
| the body renanin the nhiectlNe Inints =,