The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-10
CORBETT SAYS JACK
JOHNSON FAXED BOUT
Jim Flies Into Rage When
Told What Champion Said
About Him.
LAWSUIT THREATENED
Californian Also Says He VIII
Face ACcuSer and "Call Him
Down Hard"
LAWSUIT THREATENED
5y lntcrua tional News Service.

BY mtcruationa News Service
BOSTON. Jan with a splendid
makeup and looking the part of the
gentleman actor" with broad smile
for everybody behind the scenes Of q
local thoatcr. Jim Corbctt former cham
pion heavyweight boxer OF the world.
suddenly changed 10 furious rage here
tonight when he was shown the reports
from Chicago which stated that Jack
Johnson. champion Of tho world. had
made some grave charges against the
former in a sworn statement.
He Is nice fellow 10 talk about
other neople wanting to fake" said Cor
bett. ''I'll bet him $1,000 or as much more
as ne wants that I can prove he faxed
with kaufman and Kctcbel and that he
cannot prove anything on me, Johnson
knows that ] am after him and will not
he satisfied till ! set him whipped good
and plenty.
''He is a liar when he says made any
such offer, or that l tried 10 arrange a
him, no matter where II is. I will ask
him If he made such a statement and if
he says he did then 1 Will call him good
and hard.
"If Johnson has made "A sworn affi-
dayit TO these charges against me it will
cost him "A pretty penny when I reach
Chicago in ten days. ] will file d suit
against him. lie can then produce what
LAS regards the Philadelphia bout that
is lie
lengthy conversation ] ever had with
Kaufman was in Baltimore. soon after
Johnson returned from Australia after
he had whipped Burns. | told Kaufman
to 20 after Johnson for a hcht and II
necessary TO meet him on the street or
at the stage aud get a fight with him.
II have been told by responsible
parties since that while | was talking
to Kaufman he and johnson had already
agreed to go to Australia and box They
had boxed n tcn-roupd, no decision bout
In Frisco and ! will bet Johnson any
thing lie wants that | can prove that
bout was cooked up. So was the ketchel
bout and the same bet goes ON that bal
tie. When Jim Flynn stopped Kaufman
that knocked the Australian scheme into
cooked hat.
Mccoy might have laid down in his
bout with me, but | can assure Johnson
TO a fake fight with Mccoy.
las for making him any offer OF
100000 10 fake a hEht with Kaufman
that is also another lie
LOS ANGELES. Jan. I0.--"J take Jim
Corbetts word, two To one. against Jack
Johnsou's sworn statement. Corhclt has
always shown himself to he game loser
This was big jim Jeffrics's only COM
mcnt on The story which rolled off the
Johnson has accused "Pompsdour jim"
OF offering him 100000 TO turn lay
down" trick.
Jack johnson appears To ne going 10
a lot Of trouble To paint himself white
these days. Before Jack brushes himself
too deep into tho lily class. I might prod
bis memory by referring Ia Colma cpl
sode when \ dozen or more occupants
or the press bench went aWay SrinnInS
over The crude efforts of the black boy
TO inject n show OF realism into a knock
down stunt This VAS on The afternoon
or Oct pbcr l6 1908. when Jack banded
the late stanley Eetchcli very much az
he pleased. IN the twelfth and last
round Johnson took clout on the left
sd" of his Jaw and staggered up. rub
hing the opposite side Of his chin With
two o. three hard punches the negro
then laid Eetch"ll low. II was openly
charged at the time that Johnson hipped
Tor tho honcli! n the moving pictures
and that tho "Gnoclidown' bad been re-
hcarsed IN n dressing room.