The evening times., 1911-07-21
JACK Lester IS !.
IN The RUNNING
White Hope Is Not All Dead
and Arthur Wont Always
Be It
By W. W. Naughton

common swim like the white caps
which freckled San Francisco bay the
day after the Johnson Jeffries fight.
Even the quest for them has Ian
guished.
True, we have Carl Morris with US
blooming alone like the last rose
OF summer, as it were-but, so far
as impressive activity Is concerned,
he Is actually stagnant. He doesn't
try his fist at anything worth while
and as a consequence he doesn't i'm
prove on acquaintance. He is, in
fact, In line with the hope deferred
that maketh the heart sick. Won't
somebody please arrange SO that we
can sick Jim Flynn on Morris and de-
termine whether the Sapulpa giant
was ever or ever is likely to be?
: Back in Australia the other sur
vivor Of the white hope brigade is
bidding his time, "a, marooned sailor.
! refer to Jack Lester. Jack Is watt
ing and waiting and hoping against
hope that the Champion Of the Brit
ish empire" Bill Lang, will give him a
return match.
Bill is in no hurry. He sent word
from Melbourne to Sydney recently
that his thumbs were sore and that
Lester would have to wait. Then
Bill Turner, Tasmania's principle ex-
hibit in the white hope line, announc-
ed that he would accommodate Lester
that he was more than anxious to do
his share toward entertaining a
stranger in strange land, and that,
apart from other motives, he believed
he could knock Tommy Burns pro-
tege into q cooked hat.
| Lester Plays Wrong Card
| Lester didn't bite very readily. He
f; rubbed his chin, shook his head and
said he didn't want to do anything
that would prejudice his chances Of
getting Yang. He believed it would
be better investment If he. went to
! the backwoods for a few months un-
til Lang was ready, or. learned to
flourish a stock whip up on the Aus
/ tralian downs, or put in a season at
shearing.
Jack indicated by his actions that
It Is pretty nearly case Of Lang or
! nobody so far as he is concerned.
and that's where he is wrong. He
might play his waiting time to ad-
vantage In training for Turner. If he
use for him botherfng his head about
Lang or anybody else out yonder. For
that matter, his career as white
hope will have ended, whereas If he
stops Turner, public .clamor for a
Lang-Lester renewal will increase.
As Lester has not been seen in ac-
tion In any party of the big sporting
centers Of the United States, very lit
tie is known Of his fighting qualifi-
cations here. It can be said for him,
however, that he is willing fighter
Of great strength and hitting force,
and that he has good powers Of as
similation. He Is the sort of fellow
that might be expected to improve
rapidly.
He bothered Lang with left un-
derswing which reached the lower
ribs and stomach, and 1t means some
thing when IA novice can land on a
seasoned campaigner like Lang. Jack
started every round with rush of
the John L. Sullivan order and was
still struggling to free himself and
batter away when Lang had him
'clinched to deadlock.
If his knowledge of inside work
were on par with his desire to keep
going, he would go through the pres
ent crop of white hopes like sunshine
through chink. first noticed Les
ter's ability to take punishment when
Lang caught him in the second round.
It was while Jack YVES rushing to
close quarters, and, from the way the
punch sounded, I am sure it must
have Jared the novice from truck
to keelson.
It was the old game Australian
heart punch the one Peter jackson
and Paddy pinned their faith to-and
II never saw man treat it as lightly
as Lester did. Then, too. when Lang
met Lester with a, well-timed right
cross Of full force and downed him,
the crack and the fall were such that
we thought 1t meant taps for the
american. But Lester shook the off,
sets of the well-placed punch and was
,up and into the thick Of things in
tny.
Lester Would Continue
The contest ended In the sixth
round, when Lester, in making q
swing, bumped the muscles Of his
right arm against Lang's flinty elbow.
Now an old-time ring man whose
emotions bad been schooled by dint
Of hard lighting would have stalled
around with Spartan fortitude, per-
mitting his paralyzed arm to dangle
the while. But Lester. who is salad
green In everything pertaining to
glove craft, gave way to the pain Of
the thing and dropped to his knees.
He was disqualified by the referee
for going down without being struck.
The shock left Lester as quickly AZ
It came and he begged Lang to con-
tinue the bout Lang respectfully de-
iclined and that ID why Lester 10 pro-
longing his stay in Australta. He is
10th to come home without Lang's
scalp. a,
But whether or not Lester comes