The Washington herald., 1912-10-27
"a TYPICAL PRODUCT OF THE PRIZE RING
JOHNSON a DISGRA CE TO COUNTRY

hurting them In svery way. his own
people have cast him OF wherever they
are 20 Organised that they can do Il.
A Washington gathering Of negroes de-
| clared that he was not even man.
much less . negro, t.sg
Booker r Washington. who has been
> useful servant pf the black race and
should have had more sense. was pleased
to szy some nice things when Johnson
clubbed into senselessness >the other
brute who haG taken his reward of al
cohol and vice and was no longer fit to
fight DR.. Washington hastened TO take
all OF this hack and denouncs the prize
fighter. He says he should never be al
lowed TO appear in public again. and
that no negro should speak OF him with
respect. r
Abandons Johnson.
An Australian promoter with more
common sense than most. who has per-
sisted In the logical position that all
prize fighters are simply prize fighters,
and that the color line IL ridiculous.
has been driven to abandon Johnson.
much against his will. He declared of q
night he had arranged for the black
champion there. He found that the prize
fight public there was Inconsistent
enough 10 blame the silly negro for do
Ing with the money they paid exactly
what they must have known he would
do. They were going to give him 80, 900
more. but they declined to DO 1t when
they learned that he had abducted q
white girl. though just what difference
that makes in his fighting ability is not
quite clear.
England and Germany have served no.
tice on him that he must not come there.
France will arrest him as an undesir-
able II he enters that country, and his
native land is about to put him In prison.
The blow of England must be the bitter
est of all to the big. weak-minded baby.
They are consistent in England. A prize
fighter is just prize fighter there. no
matter what his color may be. He could
go everywhere and do everything that
Jeffries might have done. and II tickled
him beyond measure. 1t was another
large swelling OF his overgrown vanity.
He told the English people how much
he appreciated II.
Barred In Hotela.
He wasn't allowed in certain hotels
and other places open to white fighters
in this country and he appreciated the
attitude Of the English He told them
that IL they ever got into trouble with
Germany or anybody else he would Ger
taiBly come over and attend to II for
them. but he would never raise q hand
to keep foreign zoe out or the united
States. He was very serious about II.
and took pains to talk about 1t when he
came back. He evidently believed in all
that the American people would
regret that they had not forced hotel
keepers and othersyto treat him as the
social equal OF white fighters.
A detailed story OF his career IL
wearisome repetition Of offenses against
moral and social law. The details are
Of interest only to the prosecuting ofi-
GER of Cook County. In a bigger way
his capacity for evil has been only as
great as any other champion prize
lighters.
A profiigate parasite Is bad example
for boys with healthy bodies who work
for a living wage. His life has been for
years an offense to decency. and now he !
Is likely TO go to prison and be forgotten. |
But the noisome swarm of hangers-on |
who gather the crumbs that are dropped |
by such as johnson will shortly bring |
forward another powerful and fiat |
skulled animal to draw the dollars, with |
put which they would have to go to |
work like respectable people.