The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-21
WELSH SHOULD CONSENT TO :
 MATCH WITH WILLIE RITCHlE
Former Champion Jim Corbett Gives Some Inside Information About
 Jack Johnson's Plans
tBy James J. Corbett, Former Heavy weight Champion of the World.)
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 weight Champion of the World.)
 Special to the EIening Farmer.)
 New York, Nov. 21-After all the wire pulling and manipulation on the part of his packers it begins to look as if Jess Willard will not get first crack at Jack Johnson for the worlds tit1es The latest news concerning the future sengagements of the champion is that@either Sam McVea- or Battling Jim Johnson is tos be his next oppo-1 nent, the battle to. take place in Havana, Cuba, the latter part of March or early in April, 1915.
 I have this information direct from gentleman representing MT. George Bradt, of Havana, who is at the head of the syndicate organized to promote a series of heavyweight matches dur ing the coming winter and spring sea- son. According to my informant the plans originally called for fight to a finish between Sam Langford and Sam McVea, the winner to meet John son. But it developed that edcVea's manager, George Lawrence, at present in New York City, did not care Tor anys.of the .star babysT game and en- tered his objections to Langford be- ing made a principal Then it is also thought that Johnson objected to any, plans which would give him Lang ford for an opponent
 It has been announced in the New York papers that Jack Johnson and Mcyea, have been matched. but ac- cording to my information this is a IttrifIe premature McVea's participa- ton in a match with the champion depends entirely upon the success he l meets with in the preliminary sktrm- l ish with Jim Johnson. The winner 1 of that bout is to get the coveted chance for the title
 P7vt,x. +J, Ia the .znigger fighters as they are | termed in Cuba, is not at all popular | with certain interests in Havana is l evident by the following excerpt from l a recent issue of the Cuba News, 8 weekly newspaper published in that city:
 ..The Cuba News desires to enter an
 emphatic protest against the pu blish- l CT of the Havana Post MT. Bradt) 1 to convince the people of Cuba that l Americans and especially that class of Americans who have the means l and the desire for foreign travel, chase
 around. after second rate nigger prize 1 fighters, and spend lavish sums for ithesopportunity of seeing them br11ise each other up. The News right here brands the statement that 10000 tourists would come to Cuba to see 1 two niggers put up perhaps a fake fight is false and nonsensical state ment, and the man who made it knew ] it was false and nonsensical when he made it.
 teThe publisher of the Havana Post may be nigger lover and enjoy such spectacles as he purposes to pull off here in Havana, but if hetis he stands | alone in his class. Instead of 20,0oO tourists coming to Cuba. to witness a | second rate boxing match there would | not be 100 persons actually attracted | by the. fight, and anyone who has seen prize fights and know prize fight CTS and the followers of the game novvs that there are not 2o.000 per sons in the United States who would pay s10 to see Langford and McVea ffght, to say nothing of spending twen- | ty times that sum for the expenses of l their trip." "
 The New York papers erroneously announced bout between Jack John
 son and McVea, and nothing has been said about the preliminary match be- l tween McVea and Jim Johnson to
 determine which is to be the cham | pion's opponent. From the foregoing M article. it would appear that the pro- III motors of the proposed matches will meet with considerable opposition in
 their attempt to introduce the sport in Cuba through the medium of negro I fighters. The statement that the
 United States would send 20, 900 peo- pie to see LAngford and McVea fight | (G6lS was pT1nL0d sDGIOT0 the SnlIC haQ been made) is absurd. It is extreme
 ly doubtful if bakers dozen would
 would travel to Cuba even to see John son and Langford. and that layout : would be made up solely of news i paper men who would go because it
 came as part of their duties. But
 with the big negro population in
 Havana the venture may be able to make little money leaving the I gfeater profits to come from the sale of moving picture rights.
 Anyway it looks as if Willard has
 been left in he.co1d for the, time be-
 ing.
 While on the subject of negro fight
 CTS a word concerning this Harry | Wills, the New Orleans heavyweight
 now matched to box Sam Langford twenty rounds in San Francisco, may
 be interesting to the readers of this
 column I don't know anything about
 Wills myself, but he has plenty o1
 admirers to boost for him. Billy Jor- i dan the veteran announcer who prob
 ably has seen more prize ring battles
 than any other man in the world
 thinks Wills a better fighter than the
 great Peter Jackson ever was. This is praise indeed coming from so good . a judge as the veteran Jordan, who $oes on to say that Wills can in hi: opinion, beat any heavyweight in the
 game not excepting Johnson ant ; Langford, and that the coming battle
 with the latter fighter will prove WiIh
 one of the greatest fighters ever il
 the game.
 Peter Jackson was one Of the great l est hea.Vy-Weighf fighters the vor1f