El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-08
WHITE HOPES MELT
AWAY IN WORLD
Of SPORT
Even the Search for Them
Shows Signs Of Being
Abandoned.
(By W. w. Naughton.)

icy w. w. NduSnLOQ.1
San Francisco. Cal, July S.-What
They seem to have melted into the
common swim like the white caps
which flecked 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 i'm
pressive activity is concerned, he is
actually stagnant He doesn't try his
fist at anything worth while and as
consequence he doesn't improve on ac-
quaintanee He is in fact in line with
the hope deferred that maketh the
heart sick Won't somebody please ar
range so that we can sick Jim Flynn
on Morris and determine whether the
Sapulp9 giant was ever or ever is like
ly to be.
Back in Australia, the other survivor
of the white hope brigade is biding his
time 4 marooned sailor. I refer to
Jack Lester. Jack is waiting and wait
ing and hoping against hope that the
champion of the British empire" Bill
Lang, will give him a return match.
Bill In No Hurry.
Bill is in no hurry. He sent word
that his thumbs were sore and that
Lester would have TO. wait. There Bill
Tcrner Tasmania's principal exhibit in
the white hope line, announced that he
would accommodate Lester-that he
was moro 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 protege into a cooked
hat.
Lester didn't bite very readily. He
rubbed his chin. shook his head and
said he didn't want to do anything that
would prejudice his chances Of getting
Lang. He believed it would be a better
investment If he went to the backwoods
for a few months until Lang was ready,
or learned to flourish a stock whip up
on the Australian downs, or put IN a
season at the shearing.
Lang or Nobody.
Jack indicated py his actions that 1T
is pretty nearly 81 case of Lang or no.
body. so far as he is concerned, and
that's where he is wrong. He might
play his waiting game to advantage in
training for Turner. II he cannot dis
pose of Turner it is little use for him
bother his head about Lang or any
one else out yonder. For that matter,
his career as a white hope will have
ended, whereas, If he stops Turner,
public clamor for a MANCHESTER re-
newal will increase.
Little known of Lester.
AS Lester had not been seen in ac-
ton In any Of the big sporting centers
OF the United States. very little is
known of his fighting qualifications
here It can be said for him. how
ever that he is a willing wight OF
great strength and hitting force. and
that he has good powers OF assimila-
ton. He is the sort Of fellow that
might be expected to improve rapidly.
He bothered Lang with left under
swing which reached the lower ribs
and sstomach, and 1t means something
when a novice can land on a clever
boxer and 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 MIN
clinched to a dead lock-
II his knowledge of inside work
were on a par with his desire to keep
going, he would go through the present
crop of white hopes like sunlight
through a chink. 1 first noticed that
Testers ability to take punishment
when Lang caught him q pile-driving
right Just under the heart in the second
round 1t was while Jack was rush
ing to close quarters and, from the
way the punch looked and sounded.
am sure II must have Jared the novice
from truck to keelson.
1t was the old game Australian heart
punch-the one Peter Jackson and
Paddy Slavin pinned their faith to
and I never saw a man treat 1t as
lightly as Lester did. Then, too. when
Lang met Lester with well timed
right cross Of full force and downed
him, the track and the fall were such
that we thought 1t meant taps for the
American. But Lester shook the Off
sets of the well placed smash and was
up and into the thick Of things in a
jiffy.
Ends In Sixth.
The contest ended in the sixth
round, when Lester, in making a swing
bumped the muscles of his right arm
against Lang's elbow. Now an old
ring man whose emotions had been
schooled by dint OF hard fighting,