Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23

same with boxers They are just as cleve,
III their line as base ball players are III
theirs, and from my past experience box
ing is just as clean sport as any of them
and | will say it is Il much better eXer-
else than most of them The fact that
i'll New York city alone last year over
10000 taxes was paid into the state
treasury from the > per cent taken from
| the receipts at boxing shows gives q
pretty fair idea of how popular the sport
is. To my way of thinking boxing will
become more popular than most of the
sports all over the country in time, and
it will be legaliZed. too.
Mr.. Harvey is also interested i'm move
to bring about an international board OF
control for boxing the same as athletics
country and the A. a. A. in England
| This movement was inaugurated by the
writer and by Sporting Life of London
about six years ago 1t is badly needed
and would do lot toward helping the
boxing game throughout the world.
They say that time is a great healer.
and l guess the person who first thought
of the remark must have known from
experience just what was meant. Had
any one suggested three or four months
ago that battle for the worlds cham
pionship be arranged between Jack John
son, the colored champion. and AL Pal
Ter. the white hope tsnce whipped by
hooted out of the country. and all on
account of the escapades in Chicago of
the colored man with a white woman.
Now they are talking of matching Palzer
with Johnson in Paris the night before
the grand prix, June a and the people
OF the French capital. according to adj
vices coming here by mail, are all en-
Unused over it, And top of all this
comes the announcement from Luther
McCarty that he will meet Johnson in a
title match if his manager. Billy McCar-
hey, says so. Had either one, or both.
offered such a suggestion last October.
they would have been handed a most
beautiful ''panning' by the press and
public. bat four months have suffced to
change matters greatly and make people
forget. Yes, time is "a great healer.
When Luther McCarty went to the Pa
cific coast to take part in the elimination
tournament given by Tom McCarey, it
was understood that the championship
must never be contested for for by any
boxers except white men-blacks were
barred entirely-and it was given out AT
the time as coming from McCarty that
he would never fight a colOred man for
the title. As George Munroe would say:
We'll. be that as it may" Lutte has
changed his mind, and so has Billy Ne
Carney. and now he is willing to take
on the man who defeated Jim JeffreS-
poor Jim, who was out of the running
and unfit to battle before he entered the
ring that day at Reno. OF course there
may be a hitch to the proceedings. as
Jack has not yet succeeded in olsen
tangling himself from the Chicago net
work. but he says he hopes TO in time
to make the journey to Paris the only
place where such battle can be fought
just now. We will not discuss johnson S
life from any point but that of a fighter,
and. as such, We must admit that he is
high-class heavyweight but if he is to
be tolerated again by sporting people,
why not match him up against a man
like Sam Langford, also colored, and who
has earned the right to battle Johnson
for the title. Langford and Johnson would
be real match for the heavyweight
representing the white hopes. wants a
try at the worlds title, let him meet the
winner at the Langford- Johnson contest
Langford is on his way home from Aus
tralia, where he defeated big Sam McVey.
the black man supposed to have il on ali
of them, and he certainly has u right to
demand a match of Johnson before any
one else. Paris will stand for mixed
matches. but there are few cities. if auy
in the states, where they can he staged
n w. But IL the bars are to be let down
why, let's have it out between Langford
and Johnson, and then send the best of
the whites against the best black. And az
is! No matter how bitter the feeling NAV
be- time seems to change it entirely
Still, ii is unWiSe for Johnson to .-count
the chickens before they are Matched >
for We cannot tell what Uncle Samuel is
liza bic To do in his ease.
Did you ever notice how topnotchers in
the boxing or fighting line will put up a
corking good bon: at some dub town and
accent any old purse offered vhila IN n