The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-22
'M'INTOSH TELLS
OF negro BOXERS
Relates Incidents Connected
with Work Among Dark
skinned Fighters.
JOHNSON HARD TO SIGN
Had to Have His Fortune Told Be-
fore Taking Journey to
Australia.


traiia and now head Of a large theatrical
concern, hau much to tell about hi. TAT
lnss with worid-famous colored heavy
weights when in San Francisco recently
A great deal Of what Mac had tn r.-
late brought very little of pleasant 20
objections to him, but there were a ,su
Incidents OF his business co,,s..,or,
with the 'darkies'' which caused ~.
Antipodean Snowman to grin broad,y
when Mcintosh. who was in Iondo,
at the time, first conceived the ids, :,
taxing Jack johnson to Australia 10 hoy
Iomny Burns for the worlds chapnpion-
snip. II did not take the promoter long
70 discern that he had a hard task an
his hands. O''
Johnson. who was spending his time
intuns between London and Paris, was
enough, In a way. TO have try
at the championship. but he hated IN
leave the fieshpots OF England .nd ~
wine cups of gay Paree.
he was brought TO the point NJ .-
Ing contracts and articles several tirns.
OUT ne always contrived to delay mat
ters' and mali Mcintosh had serious
thoughts or abandoning his project
one particular day matters looke5 f,r
more favorable. Mcintosh had pIaced
Things In such a light that Johnson
seemed ready to sign Up. and the najr
Jumped into a cab an6 started for ths
once Of McIntosh's lawyer. wb.rs tbs
papers were waiting and everything MAS
to be settled.
Goes to Fortune Teller.
Here is how Mcintosh tell, the h.,a
of the story:
Johnson. You know, Is very superstt-
tious. He is a great believer m lunches
ana hoodoos and all that kind OF thing
On our way to the lawyers We rode
througn back street to make a cur
and Jack spied a fortune-teIler's SIGN
Hold on. Mac" he yelled. I'm going
to have my fortune told"
was annoyed because I scented an
other delay. but / made up INV nina
quickly that the best thing to do was to
numor MIN and not let him out of my
signt 1. therefore, said that the fortune
telling idea was a good one. ana 10 show
MIN believed in such things I insisted
on having mine told first"
went into the curtained recess with
the lady with the red turban, bangles
and earrings. and said quickly to her
mere, don't want you to peer into nv
future the least bit, but there's a colored
fellow outside who needs a sea yoya ee
See that he takes the voyage
When Jack came out, I asked him
what she told him
Oh, Jack said. a lot of bunk about
fame and fortunte waiting for me across
the sea. 1 don't suppose 1t was on the
ievei, but I'm going to take the trip
anyhow
He signed articles that afternoon"
Did Not Know .Pounds.-
Mcintosh had one to tell on Sam Nc
Ney. The negro fighter named comes
from Oxford. in the California sugar
belt and has spent most of his pugilistic
career in Paris
He went to Australia from France a
few years ago and fought Sam Langford
so many times that the sporting public
out that way has lost count of the score
The McVey-Langford match took place
at Brisbane and was losing venture for
both negroes
When McVey landed in Australia he
had trouble figuring out money values
He had become used to French money
and could not learn the pounds. shiIIings
and pence system Of the British colonies
For his fight at the Rushcutter's Bay
Stadium, McVey's percentage was i,5OI
pounds.
When told the amount he remarked
Fifteen hundred francs isn't so much.
I'd get more for a match in Paris
When l explained to him that each
English pound was worth over a score
of francs, he could not grasp the i'm
mensity of the rakeoff He dubbed over
with delight and started out on a high
old time, spending the money as lavishly
as John L. Sullivan used to spend his
after one of the famous four-round
seances in Madison Square Garden, a
quarter of a century ago.
For a full week McVey and his train
ers drank nothing but champagne They
even had it at breakfast said Nc
intosh.
Rivers-Ritchie Match.
Having in view-the stubbornness dis
played by managers. Joe Levy and Billy
Nolan when the weights for the heavy
weight" contest between Joe Rivers and
Willie Rftchie were being fixed. fear is
expressed by sundry sporting men that
something may yet go wrong with the
Fourth of July match.
There is really no cause for uneasi-
ness Very often when the rival man
ayers seem flying at each others throats.
a perfect understanding exists and every
thing has been mapped out before hand
Depend on it. If anything goes wrong
with the Ritchie-Rivers bout. il won't be
caused by a squabble between managers
The money prospect will be suficient
to cause Billy and Joe to step softly to
avoid any cause to interfere with the
growth of public interest and affect the
advance sales.