The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-22

MavV attacks on n gcnuineneSS OF the
les WiI.ard-Jack johnson fight for the
world heavyweight championship have
hen made. but the worst jol, appears In
,be latest issue Of John Bnil. which has
ms, reached this country from England.
Horatto Bottomley, the editor Of the
paper. stands by any disclosure his
,.riod.cai makes. He charges that John
son declared that the fight was a fake
and tina; johnson now is forced to adj
mi, it. because he has not received s5e,-
900. a guarantee that was promised him
for laying down to willard. Here lie
JoAn Bars story:
We are sorry we have to return TO
our old friend Jack Johnson, of whom
We hoped we had taken a final fare
we'll after. as We thought, he had
been genuinely deprived Of h cham
piorship title by willard in April last.
Johnson evidently cannot go straight,
and We now put before our readers
certain further facts, which will sat
lsfy them that this man should not
any longer be tolerated in our coun-
try. They refer to his recent fight
with willard. and while throwing
grave doubt upon the renuineness Of
the contest prove conclusively that
Johnson 10 a man who should be
warned on from the ring. We are
not entitled to say that there was any
compact with Willard. II may be that
% far as he is concerned the AFFAIR was
straight and above board. and hat he
fought in ignorance Of the sordid bar
gain to which johnson pleads guilty.
but IN view Of what we are about to
disclose, some explanation from him
would certainly appear to he desirable,
and we need scarcely say that our
columns are open TO him for the pur-
pose.
We are not aware of the date upon
which johnson reached England after
the fight. but he could not have been
here long before he was busy formu-
lsting claims for having agreed to lay
down to willard, whom he describes,
from the boxing point Of view. as
merely "a Joke" and offers to fight
for a side bet Of twenty-five thou
sand-presumably dollsrs-the win
ner to take "all and purse money"
These admissions and challenges are
contained in certain cables sent to
New York early in June. We do not,
for obvious reasons, at present dis
close the name Of the person to whom
they were addressed, especially in view
Of the fact that he r~epudiates having
been party to any such dishonest ar
ranEement as that suggested-al-
though. Of course. johnson cannot es-
Cape from his self-confessed fraud
The first cable was despatched from
London oil June .. and this is how i,
reads
You signed con,rsc; 10 pay ne ff,,
thousand dollars 10 lay down 10 Willard
which l did You never kept YOU
promise. l did Now you mus, "a &C
eorling to contract. Litiga,e all yo'
Ike ! will pu; my case before an,
JACK JOHNSON.
We do not know the exact termi
OF the reply which Johnson received
but 1t is obvious from his next mes
sage that it was not OF a satisfac,
tory character and hat his demand
vas characterized by a somevha
ugly name. For ON June IL We fine
him wiring again:
B!ackmsil proposition ridiculous. War
payment first money taken, willard a
st..ty 20 beat me viii. bet tNenty.hv
thousand. Winner take all and purs
money. JOHNSON.
Now, as We have so often said. W
have no desire TO pursue unduly thi
dusk gentleman. but we do call upol
hin 20 clear himself. X he can, o
this latest scandal-or TO clear out.
When We exposed him before h
frs challenged us 70 come and fgh
him-Which Is not in our line the
he offered to stake f200 against
similar sum from US IL We could prov
the geNuIneress OF the document
which We reproduced. To this we re
piled 70 the effect that we would lodg
/. 900 against his 5000 and forfeit
II we failed TO substantiate on
charges. But this did not suit Jacl
s. next he issued a writ for Lbs
against us-subsequently allowing tn
action TO drop.
II Viii be remembered that "
charged him with having e~ndeavore
to square the fight in Paris with Nc
ran and that We reproduced a docu
nent signed by him and by. which h
agreed 20 allow Moran a certain PEI
centage Of the gate money provide
he laid down" within eight round,
TIE scheme, however. did not worl
Johnson had got hold OF the wron
man in Dan McKerick. Moran
manager, whose instructions to h
boy was to go In and win-wit
the result that he ven through III
twenty rounds. much 20 the surpris
a Jack, who was constantly calm
o. him to give in.
~ we have said, We have no cole
prejudice We do not forget ths
prince Of the ring-the acme of all
Sportsman, black or white, should
Peter Jackson and II Johnson ha
OILY taken Peter as a model of VIII
real champion should be We wou'
have forgiven him much and held o,
The glad hand TO him, but he real
Is Impossible-and he must go.
We therefore now call upon evef
recognized boxing club and authorlt
n the world TO rid the grand old spe
o. this menace TO its good name. a
or proofs are at their disposal. Bo!
me is the white mans sport. Let ,
keen b. olean. SO long as the gan
Vas PLAYED straight We put up wi
The tauut of having no white chan
zion and We freely acknowledged Il
'egr0's SE.,I. II he has lost the title