The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30
JOHNSON Still
T PICKING LEMONS
jeff Thompson Complains That
Fortune Is Too Good to
Former Roustabout.
WOLGAST-MORAN PICTURES
DO NOT SHOW ANY FOUL
Views of Most Important Blows
Totally 0bscured and Films
Are Very Poor.
By JEFF THOMPSON.

of lemons, Jack johnson should be able
to get paying job in any grove IN
California or Florida. He has few
equals and no superiors in the game
He is to get the tidy sum Of s56,oOc
for going in the ring with two British
specimens Of citrus fruit of the first
quality. Bombardier Wells. is to net
| the black champion 1000 and Petty
! Officer Curran is to come across with
$4,000. 1o,,
with his golden smile, "dem 8 water
meIlions, big, ripe, juicy watermel-
lions -
So they are. So they are. Not only
is Johnson coming money In his the
atrical engagement, but he Is having
the time Of his life socially in coun-
try whore the color line is not drawn
Truly the lines Of the former Calves.
ton roustabout are cast in pleasant
places and he is in no hurry to come
home. Why should he be3
Pictures Do Not Show Much.
II Ad Wolgast fouled Owen Moran
| in their championship encounter at
Frisco on July 4, the proof of it can
not be found in the pictures, which are
| exhibited in New York. There are
several reasons why the pictures do
not show the Knockout clearly. In the
first place, the blow that tched the
! Englishman on the canvas was de-
livered at short range as they were
coming to clinch. 1t was struck on
the side Of the ring 1arthest away
from the moving picture machine. Vol
CAST had his back turned to the camera
at the time. and his body interposed
hafv ho bc
The burly form of Referee Billy
Roche, who was moving around to the
ropes to get a better view Of the in
fighting, partly blocks the view.
There is no doubt that the blow was
low. but nothing to Indicate that it was
foul, except oran's actions and his
agonized features as he lay helpless on
the floor. To be sure, it was not a
Knockout such as dulls the intellect and
senses; it may have been foul, but
the pictures do not so prove it. The
films are dark and did not permit
close inspection of blows. AS they
Wolgast left arm jerked back and
shot forward for a body punch. Where
1T landed is not shown at all, as Mo-
ran was directly behind Wolgast and
his nidriff was hidden by the cham
pion's body.
Low blows that were not foul havo
put other fighters down for the count
Abe Attell was the victim of such
knockout at the hands Of Brooklyn
Tommy Sullivan in 1904 at ST. Louis.
A hard blow at close range put Attell
down, and he writhed in agony as he
lay helpless. Abe Immediately claimed
a foul, and the referee called two doc
tors to the ring. They found no trace
Of a foul blow and Attell was ordered
to continue. He tried TO, but could
not stand erect, and the decision was
credited to Sullivan as knockout.
The referee declared that the blow
landed heavily on the belt line of At
tell IS abdomen, causing q sudden sharp
pain that no fighter could endure At.
tell always believed that he was
fouled, despite all the evidence to the
contrary. He afterward disposed of
sullivan easily, and could never be con.
vlnced that an accidental fair blow
Moran was badly battered by VOL
gast and the pictures plainly show his
puffed and CORY features after the
tenth round. He was very tired and so
was Wolgast, but 1t was not one of
those gradual finishes, In the |
twelfth round the Englishman was live. |
ly enough, though the tide of battle
had set against him, and he came out
OF his corner briskly in the thirteenth,
Foul or fair, the deciding punch rem.
dered him temporarily as helpless as an
lnfnnt.
Ali Have Excuses.
There is always room for new ex.
,uses. We all need them at times. Joe
ferguson, the Philadelphia lightweight,
VINO VINO was scheduled to meet Knockout
\ !
on the Albany fans BY coming out
With statement that he had been Of
,ered $4,000 to lay down to Knockout.
after saying it he caught the train
'aek TO Philadelphia. This was n sur
Prise, for Ferguson begged fer a match
with Brown, and when he got il he
waited week and then decided a cou-
'Ie OF hours before the fight that he did
lot care for any OF Brown IS game.
Johnny Coulon, the Chicago bow who {
loldS Ua9 lhe pantamweight title by gem I,
:. thi ~ eo9sesslon, Will take n trip to the /
'ther side soon for the purpose of ar
;anging bout with Digger STANLEY, {
he he, holder of the English title. There :
VII undoubtedly be hitch when it
olhes 70 arranging such a match be- y
uuse OF the different bantam scales :
ecognized in the United States and I
.feat britain Stanley would scarcely t
.,oh OUT ror flS at 9 O'Clock, while ]
oIaon Ts would want l15 ringside !,
b. you we're matchmaker for one OF
ption of several opponents for Al o
1olgast; champion lightweight. would n
on pick. out Fred Welsh. the former v
nghsh champion. as the man most like.
TO III your arena with dollars and a
we the public good run for those dol. q
Welsh Is Too Easy. p
,c,sr co we near murmur1nes from the o.
M Irn welsh rs having anything Ike en b.
s sn Shance with the smuggling wolGa ST n
v wo,a,ssT, sT,ennyy-round ,y encounter. They
favorite In the betting that the bout ST.