The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-19


Tho new white champion" has de.
elsred that he Will never fight a negro,
hut SC long as the black notoricty seeker.
who has dragged the noble game Of hit
ond-set-aFay to the very brink or the
awning abyss TINT leads 20 oblivion
through MS repulsive actions. $ permit
,ed TO retain uptarnished the lnNrels ne
should never have been perd,itted 10
win, Just Sc long viii that smirch and
consequent period of depression remain
70 throttle ouce popular spc-t. Luther
McCarty maY. therefore. be hailed as the
ssYior OF the iighting geme--the one
man in the word who may ultimately
iescu. the sport from the depths to
vhicn il hes fallen aud restore it 20 IS
ierIner popularity
There is nov nc; lingering doubt but
Ahnt tins lighting cowboy, at the tender
we Of tweDtv.ope, is toe rest white man
II the 7crld and he Is stu improving
= truly remarkable rate Of progress.
And although he IS right NOW the best
vhite hehtire machine N the eutire uni
ierse, ~ Will be a matter of three or four
years vet before hc can reasonably oe OK,
peeted 70 have achieved his maximum ~
fsh.ins efficiency More than that be
Is tho ambitious. s:udiors sort. VINO viii
not ioa; on the job. aud who v1li Keep
light on improving TIL be has reached
TIA. point which Nature has decresd as
his highest possible pinnacle OF attain.
rrent And Nature vas thare with a
masterpiece, OF sighting machinery snen
snc turned ovt Luther NcCarty On tee
otner hand Johnson. aow thi-ty ire.
;st. amos, iorty, hu- not fair and
net only going bac}-" as the natural re.
sui. Of the ravages Of TING. but acceler-
a.lng his rate of retroression through
his rlotous living vii II few yeart
hayn "wnipped hi,nself' 10 the poin,
urhere the coming ncCsrty should have
chinch m wlping this blot of the rs
cutcheon OF the squared circle forever,
This lighting cowboy, therefore looms
up on the pugilistlc horzon as some
thlng more than a white heavy. weight
champion Something more potent tc
the future Of hstiana-tbe SAVIOR OF the
lighting game And 1t Is almost Ger
tsihty that after ne has vsded through
the available crop OF white men-whIcl
De is sure to do, as the present whit,
champion" is no loefer-snd slowed tina
experience under his belt. that is al HI
poT requires, there will be reconsider
alton of that determination 10 drop III,
black champion By general consent
and as sire as this comes TO pass 6gh
fsus vii see this black smudge wipet
cff the pugiiistic map for good and ali
Jack Johnson has Yet TO face a good
big" white man IN the ring Every
oedy knows what travesty of his forme
self Jim Jeheries was at the time o
that Reno fiasco, and all Johrsons oshe
vnite opponents In the ring have nerel
been good little men," like Ketchel an
Tommy Burns, who were outcls ssed phys
ically, or big secondrasers, ike Al Kan
mann and Tony Ross In Luther ",
Carty, six feet four in his fighting shoe.
and 2o5 pounds of scrapping tissue, tn
prize reg not only has man who
big enough for the job in hand. but On
who shows the class and ability IN tb
art OF hit-snd-getcswsy, and the fin
good big man the ring has know
since Jeffriss was in HIS prime
In buld and general qualifications VI
Czrty has much In common with why
Jedrics was when ne frat ca-ne out. b,
in general department while in action-
very important festurc, by the way
sie lighting eowboJ'' has something q
anything that the boilerranker evar ha.
Sour END suriy and averse 70 trainin
Jegries vas the plcddmg leSorer, ar
dead on his fest" m the ring. BfoCart
iull Of vfn, cnjoys the arduous lshors
The training rau1-, Ard dc..ai+ 49,
sacrifice bis pleasant frame OF mind ar
pepper 70 attain physical perfectio