Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-05
JOHNSON HIS GOAL
Langford Hopes to Meet:
lack if He Wins Tonight.
JEANETTE HARD TO BEAT.
Battle Expected to Be Most Strenu~
Gus in Boston Fighters
Career.
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JEANETTE HARD TO BEAT

NEW YORK. September : a bout
with Jack Johnson for the worlds
championship Is tho coal toward which
sam Langford expects that his night
tonight With Joe Jeannettc win lead
him. SO the Boston heavyweight i
taking no chances lie has trained
harder than for any Of his recent
matches and is a decided fayeritc
Jeanette, however. Is expected 10
prove the hardest nut I.aneford has
had TO crack during his progress
toward a championships match Tho
black fighters last mill. won by sam
at Boston last September, vas fu-
rious battle.
The fight viii be staged at Madison
Square Garden and the promoters
promise that there viii 10 no repeti-
ton of the confusion and crowdiuG
that marred the recent Wells Brown
bout,
The rival negroes nave agreed To box
under straight QueenSherry rules, pro-
tecting themselves on the bredka&ay
and backing out of clincheS when sd
ordered by the referee. As both meiir
employ the stand up style Of milling.
ring sharpS expect very little holding
or covering up. In fact. if the princi-
pals repeat the met hods in former bat
ties they will provide a bout filled with
clean, hard hitting AS there's no love
lost. IL is believed that L.angford and
Jeanette viii fight every step of the
way. each determined to beat the other
decisively. In view of Laneford's trip
to Australia he is said 10 be unusually
eager to put his antagonist TO sleep.
and IL he fights AT top speed from tie
outset he may accomplish this feat.
But the application of a Knockout
punch viii not he an easy task mas
much as Jeanette has never enjoyed
peaceful slumher inside of the ropes
This will be the eighth time these black
men have mixed il. The first scran took
place in Lawrence, Mass. December -.
1905 1t lasted eight rounds and Jean
nette got a decision lie sin has stated
that Langford. after RECEIVING a fiercs
beating. showed the white feather and
quit The Tar Baby turned the tables
in Boston, April :, 1900. when he defeat
ed Jeanette on points with PROLONGED
advantage in fifteen round fight. Tho
third battle occurred in Lawrence Janu-
airy IL. 1907. and after twelve gruelins
rounds the decision was a draw. Thev
fought another twelve-round draw in
Boston March =. 1els and tho folowing
September Langford had the better of a
six-round mix in this city. A year later
they clashed in Boston for the sixth time
and Jeanette narrowly escaped knock
out. Langford hammered him for ff-
teen rounds and was declared the win
ner. They fought for the seventh time,
also in the Hub. and al the end of twelve
rounds Charley White declared the bout
"A draw. incidentally White said il was
the fastest and most exciting glove con-
test he had ever seen. Jeanette claimed
that Langford should have been disquali-
fled because he dropped without beng hit
in one of the rounds but eyewitnesses
declared that Langford slipped and really
had shade better OF the battle
Langfor.i has beaten all of the whita
heavyweights except Kaufman and Carl
he could add those big fellows 10 his long
list of victims. He is regarded as Jean
nettes master and teh only man in the
world with a chance to win the title from
Johnson. He is wonderfully built. though
standing only five feet seven and one
half inches in his stockings lie IS
broader across the back and shoulders
than FitZsmmonS. who was ahnormallJ
developed in this respect, and he can dei
liver a terrific blow from almost any
angle. in addition to having a thorough
knowledge Of scientific ring tactics.
Jeanette is five feet ten and one-half
inches tall and is superhly developed, lie
is thirty years old, four years older than
Langford. He has taken part in six
ring contests with Johnson, the last one
occurring in 1906. The first was a three
round no-decision affair. The second was
won by Jeanette on a foul in two
rounds The third went six rounds to 4
draw Johnson captured the fourth on
decision in fifteen rounds. after which
they boxed two draws, one Of six and
the other of ten rounds Jeanette :
most notable achievement was the knock
ing out Of Sam McVey in Paris, France.
the end coming in the forty-ninth round.