The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-07

, likely to become plastered to the ribs.
Willard is already showing a tendency
to take on weight. and two years OF
comparative idleness would leave him as
big as house.
In the second place. unless he does some
fighting the sporting public is practically
certain to raise the cry that he beat an
old man and is not real champion.
Another thing. Willard does not know
enough about fighting as yet to afford
to keep out of the ring. He is in very
crude state in every way. and it is going
to take a lot of drilling to smooth off
the rough edges Jones has an inflated
idea of Wizards stage value. as is indi-
Gated by the fact that he told one man
who offered him Sc 500 week today that
he expected to get 5000 a day for Jess
services. Jones feels that the vaudeville
houses are altogether too small for the
business he is going to do, anyway, and
is talking about Madison Square Gar
den
Photos of Knockout.
Photographs of the knockout were sold
around Havana at So each and the first
supply was soon exhausted. The pic
lures show that as Johnson lay fiat on
his back in Wizards corner, with WEIGH
counting over him. the negro had his
gloved hands raised over his face as IL
to protect his eyes from the binding sun.
and while this movement may have been
involuntary il is taken by many to indi-
cate that johnson was not totally uncon-
scious. Some believe that when he went
to the floor he could have got up again
and could have gone along couple of
rounds more. but that he realized it
would be a useless effort and so took the
count to avoid being unduly battered.
That the blow daZed him there is no
doubt. but he probably knew what was
going on around him. johnson came out
of the fight without scratch. but had
he tried to go on in his feeble condition,
granting that he could have got to his
feet after the knockout. Willard would
have given him terrific buffeting.
His request to get his wife out of the
arena may have been p0mpted by fear
that harm might befall her at the hands
of some bug but more likely the ne
gro's vanity remained with him even
after he did not have a punch in either
hand and he did not want her to see
him knocked out. This is the third
woman to be officially attached to the
Johnson domestic menaSe in the past few
years.
johnson is going back to Paris in a
few days. He has lost all hope of being
allowed to return to Chicago or any
CITY OF Ine tn1teO STATES II was
stated that there were a couple of Ameri-
can Secret Service men stationed at the
carefully watching johnson. but
If they were it was probably in an unoffi-
cial capacity.
II the Chicago law did not want john
son as champion il could hardly use him
as a has been.
1t is not believed that johnson has any.
great amount of money left. The s2s.-
900 that he got from Curley yesterday
represents a good part of the
family bank roll at this time. Years of
luxurious living in Paris undoubtedly
effaced most of that account. Jack has
his interest in the moving pictures of the
Havana fight, however. and that should
bring him something for a while.
Few believe that the pictures will be
admitted to the United States. but they
are expected to be quite profitable in
England. France. and Australia, at least.
as Johnson has been to those countries
and the people will doubtless enjoy see
Ing him as he Is in the Havana film.
Adios to Cuba.
Now that the big match is over. the
tin-eared boys might just as well begin
saying "adios'' to Cuba. There will be
no more money in the fight game for
them around here for quite a SPELL
George Bradt, the papa of pugilism there
abouts. who has been@h every soft pick
ing for the caulinowered colony, gave
another show at his stadium last night
and il was a loser. If any man in the
world could stage q brace of comparative
unknowns on the night of the biggest
battle of years and make
money. he would be entitled to a medal.