The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-06

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siJohnson's next fight Of importancs
was IN Australia, Christmas Day, 1908
4 In which he. whipped Tommy Burns III
fourteen rounds, and was proclaimed
champion Of the world In Australia
Johnson caused the bitterness against
him to increase through his vicious ac
4 tons, and the Australian government
refused to further extend his time 81
stay IN the country, and johnson sailed
Il for America. Here he met Jack
/ Q 'Brien and few Others, finally land
/ ing back in San Francisco, where he
fought al Kaufman a ten.round mo-
decision contest II afterwards was
proven that johnson had bet heavily
on Kaufman TO stay the ten rounds.
Next he fought Stanley Ketehell, win.
ming IN fifteen rounds.
Moved TO Nevada
Then Bob Edgren, Henry Berry. Sam
berger, Jim corbett and few Others
ipyeigled Jim Jeffries into challenging
johnson, and a match was finally ar.
ranged for, to take place al the corner
Of Eighth and Market streets in the
city OF San Francisco. William GIL.
lett, then Governor Of the State OF Cali.
ifornia, politely Informed Jack Gleason
and Tex Rickards, promoters Of the
4 fight, that he would have none Of the
two men, and the seat Of the fight was
Transferred to Reno, Nevada.
Johnson, who was then trimming at
I the Old Seal Rock House in San Fran:
cisco, packed his duds and moved to
Reno, where he continued his trainine
until July 4, 1910, when he knocked
4 Jim Jehries out in the fifteenth round.
/ The opinion has always prevailed
/ ainee then that Johnson had agreed to
lay down in this fight, and that JEFF
ries, with this in mind. did little or no
training. i' NJ /,
Gave Him Thirty Dsay
/ Z Following the Jeffries fight. johnson
came back to San Francisco and spent
rert Of his earnings in large racing
car, and i was his delight 70 drive up
and down the streets at break neck
speed regardless Of life and limb.
Finally an unfeeling policeman yanlsed
Johnson before Police Judge Treadway
for speeding, and this judge, caring
nothing for the heavyweight scrapper.
sent him 10 Jail for thirty days, ana
for one month johnson made big rocks
into little ones for the city and county
Of San Francisco, q.
After being released from Jail. John
son entered vaudeville ana opened q
cafe in Chicago. After layof Of two
years from the Jim Jeffries fieht. John
son fought jim Flynn at Las Vegas,
1 winning in the ninth round, Back to
Chicago he went, and shortly after this
was jailed on a white.slave charge, and
upon conviction was ordered to Jail.
Pending an appeal, johnson skipped to
/ Canada apd then to France, where he
fought Battling johnson, Frank Moran
ard others.
\ His next fight was with Willard, and
a good licking and then,a shove into
the discard heap was his portion Of
this fight,
Ever was johnson alert to turn a
dirty trick. Honolnlans will remember
his visit here several years ago, and
how he rode from his hotel 20 the
steamer and then beat the haekman out
of his fare. Verify, few Of the sports
are pining that John Arthur johnson
is no longer in the hmehght.
Jess Willard, the new champion
heavyweight pugilist Of the world, halls
from Pottowatomie county, Kansas
4 whore he was born December 90, 1887
Nothing woyth ehronieiing took place
! during bis childhood or boyhood days
He was raneher's son and became q
cowboy. Finally he grew 70 be six
| feet, seven iuches in height and ia
/ weigh nearly ga pounds, SO Willard
Z left the ranch and went to Kansas
I City. Here Billy Carney saw the pos,
sibility OF making fighter of Jess
but turned from Jess TO the late Luthei
Mccarthy, who lost, his life in box,
ing match with Tommy Burns protege
Arthur Pelky. Z. Il 81
Jess, shy managsr, drifted along
meeting serappers Of little consequence
until, late in 1912, he held Arthur
7 Pelky to a draw and likewise LutheI
Mccarthy, each fight going ten rounds
Killed Bull Young
! In 1918 Willard dubbed along the
I great path toward the white hope goal
meeting with fair success, beating John
\ Young, Frank Bowers, Jack Leon
: George Rodel, AL Williams and Car
Morris. Bull Young was also an or,
| ponent Of Wizards, the fight takin;.
place at Los Angeles. Young was boa
fat when he entered the ring, and after
an pnmereiful beating, lasting eleven
rounds, Young sank 70 the floor, dying
la few hours afterwards at his hotel
Willard was arrested and tried fol
manslaughter, but was cleared Of the
charge. A +, n 4 /.
His first real important fight was
with q Gunboat, Smith at San Fran,
cisco, May 20, 1918 Smith being given
the decision after twenty rounds OF
what was voted the poorest fighting
ever seen in a ring. Both men were
hissed and hooted spontaneously by the
spectators, and neither was offered a
chance to fight again. Later in the
year Willard met numbering Charley
Miller, tile human trolley car in four,
| round hont which was called draw
He wound up his 1913 lighting with .
bout with George Rodel, the Terrible
/ Roar "A fan. rnllnd a ffaiY n, tNN,, Vark