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knocked him out in less than half a dos rounds; but that was the only time when ?msorsmwnssooumn lny Bay lqm Never Beat a First- Olass Man. n 1901 ho fought a twenty round draw with a fourth rater. ‘Then he got & decision over Mexican Pete Everett in twenty rounds, the fight, so-called, taking place In 1902 and Everett being a general object of humorous eriticlsm. Hank Griffin, a raw-boned black man, afso stayed twenty rounds and got a draw with Johnson. Before proceeding with the record RING RECORD OF THE BIG SMOKE | it is Whipped Overrated Tommy Burns —Narrow Hecape in Battle with Langfo to these battles Jeffries, who had just be- gun to attract attention on the coast, dls- posed of Mexican Pete Everett in rounds and Hank Griffin in four, neither of them having a ghost of a chance when oyl | Jess began to punch in deadly earnest. Any times when fighting men gather and | During the campaign of 1908 Johnson got discuss the big mill between the negro and | gecisions over such third raters as Denver Jettries to be decided at Emeryville, Cal. | g4 Martin in twenty rounds, Sam MeVey/in on July 4. In reply to the query you'll |y, houts of that distance and Sandy Fer- sear very few affirmatives, yet it seems |guson in one contest of ten rounds and an- 1o, be generally conceded that Johnson, 6| ,iner of twenty. That was the year Jef- feet I inch in helght and welghing 26 | .0y knocked Corbett out In ten rounds in pounds at his best, will prove a formidable | cairornia, and If anybody, had suggested antagonlst for the burly boflermaker. | then that Johnson, McVey, Ferguson or When Sam Fitspatrick had Johnson under | \fariin was entitled to a match, with the his wing several years ago the big nego | (pampioin bollermaker there wWould have pusilist was regarded as a second rater. |j..n no end to the ridicule. He had taken part In ring contests for more than elght years, yet the followers of | OW8 FUBORI0F RN ¢ pugiiism never regarded him serlously, | Johnson knocked McVey out In the Pitzpatrick, well liked, used to tell h‘.‘lv«vnlltth round in another fight held the friends that Johnson really was something |next vear in San Francisco, Whether it of a fighter, but when he turned his back | Was an accident or not is a matter still and left, they laughsd heartily. Nobody (open to discussion. For nineteen rounds put any stock in Johnson's alleged fistic | they struggled on even terms, doing a lot prowess except Fitspatrick, the man who|of wrestiing, clinching and blocking until handied the great Peter Jackson and de-|many of the spectators were bored. As veloped the memorable Kid Lavigue. Fitz- | they came up for the twentieth round the patrick sald the Texas negro could beat | referee said (o them: ordinary heavywelghts, but he never men-| “Far goodness sake do some fighting! tioned & possible match with Jeffries. | This.is the last round and the people want Sritiat Butds dn iy’ Mest. | ‘something for their money. So go inand 8o keen & judge of fighting skill as| '4Ke a chancel” Fitapatrick, could not err when he de-| JOhnson paid cided that Tommy Burns would be meat| ©T€6'S command and opened the round for Johnson, for Burns, it is ldmlurd,i with his usual blocking tactics. McVey never could be called a high class pugilist| however, decided that the crowd. shou'd For that matter, when compared to the| Fcelve some consideration from him, so star heavywelghts of recent years, Jef-| Ne opened up his attack and rushed. That Yiied, - Obtacs, | Piandiiambas, B was just what Johnson was waiting for. Ruhlin, Choynski, McCoy and Maher, it| With a terrific right hand uppercut he was absurd to speak of Burns In the same| Met McVey as he came tearing in. The breath. Yet when when Johnson whipped| blow landed like a sledgehammer on the Burns In Australia and followed it up by| POint of the chin and Johnson scored a knoeking out little Ketchel the Impression| clean knockout. It was the same blow beeame widespread that the negro had a| that Johnson used on Burns and Ketchel chance to beat the gigantio Jeffries. with such disastrous results. Pugilism prompts excitement, exaggerated| It was in 1905 that Johnson fought Mar- fdeas and rash statements. Many ring fol-| vin Hart in San Francisco. Hart was just lowers, guided by Impulse or, prejudice, & ood second rater, big and strong, with often fail to sit down quitely and weigh| lots of gameness and a terrific wallop. the evidence in hand. Because some pugil-| Johnson blocked and clinched, boxed and 1t knocks out an opponent in a punch he| slugged with him for twenty rounds and leaps into popular favor with a sudden| when the referee sald Hart was the winner impetus that makes one possibly forget| on seientific points, the Texas black man what Is known as the “dope.”" Ring records| declared vehemently that he had been and\actual achlevements constitute this| robbed. But whether he was or not never “dopeand it often tells the has been definitely decided paves the way for victory or defeat. What Johnson Has Dome. 80 what is the “dope” on Jack Johnson | that he should be regarded as a world beator and a sure winner over James J.| Jeffries? That is the universal query set| forth by white men who are anxious to have Jeff hammer the negro Into a cocked hat on Independence day. Joe Choynski found him an easy mark nearly ten years %80 when they met down In Texas and Md Jack Johnson ever beat a first class ? You can hear this question put no attention to the ref- then and when Young Peter Jackson and Joe Jeannette, both negro second raters, fought draws with him before the end of that year, Sam Fitzpatrick found very few ring’ followers who were willing to listen to the negro’s prospects. Johnson got a declsion over Jeannette in a fifteen-round bout in Baltimore in March, 1906, and then he was asked to visit Boston to meet one Langford in a fifteen-round affair. John- 4 Cylinders 20 H. P Sliding Gears Bosch Magneto A year ago the Hupmobile had just made its bow to the public. Today, In a thousand towns and cities—ail over the world ~sfive thousand Hupmobiles are in use. These two brief paragraphs tell the wonderful story of the Hupmoblle—a story of things' done and loyal partisans won. 1ts Why and how was it possible for the Hupmobile—a new- comer-—to leap so quickly and surely into lasting favor; In one year to gain a place which other and older cars have struggled years to attain? In the first place, It offered extraordinary value—the motor buying public was quick to grasp the truth that no value to compare had ever been presented. True, there were cars of moderate price. But none at a figure approximating the Hupmobile price possessed the dash and beauty, the mechanical and structural liberality ‘and staunchness which mark alike the Hupmobile and the costlier vurs. the Hupmoblle was instantly and universaTy wel- eomed; vot alone by those who had hopefully and patiently awaited the coming of such a car, but by men who owned the costliest types and recognized in the Hupmobile a smaller brother to these cars. And the Hupmobile began at once to make good, In public contests and in the service of the first delighted buyers. Johnson took & nap within the roped arena. | & negro called Kiondyke, who was at best | worthy of note that.just four vears prior | three | i | Johnson wasn't cutting much of a figure | | For instance, early in the season, the Porter Hill climb at Cleveland, winning twice in #om didn‘t know mueh about Langf cept that his first name was Sam, was a negro and welterweight Fight with Langford. Many stories have been told of this John- son-Langford scrap, but there is only one that i true, Langford stood five feet seven and one-half inches in his fighting |shose and weighed exactly 13 pounds. He was five inches shorter and nearly sixty | pounds lighter.than Johnson. In the first round there was such an 'absurd Aiff |ence In the appearance of the men that the |crowa screamed and howled. But In the | |second round Langford, getting in close, | put a great left hand upper cut on John- | son's jaw and sent the big fellow to the {floor in & heap. There are saveral reliable | persons available who will insiet that while Johnson was taking the count ‘“nine’ |from the referee, eighteen _seconds of |actual time by the watches of these men | elapsed. Johnson got up. clinching to the | |#ong, and for the rest of the hattle he |stcod Langford off by thrusting out his {long left hand and breaking the force of | |many dangerous blows with his right. Johneon got the verdict on points, but | | Boston erities regarded him as something | Itke & counterfeft, | Johnson could never be induced to fight Langford again. The latter welghs 170 pounds now and is a trifle taller. He ean |hit harder and knows much more about |the game. He has challenged Johnson re- | peatedly, offering to bet $10,000 on the side, but to no purpose. These facts are that he all recited here just to show that Johnson frmr‘ | vears ago was rothing more than a plain, | ordinary, willing heavywelght, who met all comers for any money that might ma- {terialize. A ten-round draw with Jean- nette wound up the 1908 campalgn, the men coming together in Portland, Me. Some Minor Achievements. | Peter Felix, who was knocked out by | Johnson in a round at Sydney, New South | { Wales, in February, 1907, was of little ac- {count. Tn the following July the ancient | Fitzsimmons, who had been punched into submission by Philadelphia Jack O'Brien on the coast two years before, went up against Fitzpatrick's “'colored champion” and was knocked out in a couple of| rounds. Yet this achievement didn't con- | vince the conservative critics that John- | son was a first-class heavyweight. On | the contract Johnson was termed a ‘‘four flusher” for plcking out the freckled Cor- ‘niskman for an easy mark. There was no general comment Johnson stopped one Kid Cutler, a pupll | |of John L. Sullivan, in about three wal- lops, but there was a storm of severs | critielsm when the big negro allowed Sallor Burke, a middlewleght, to stay six rounds with him in what was apparently a bare-faced fraud In the city of Bridge- | port. Johnson knocked Burke down a | dogen’ times while sure thing men ran | around offering 2 to 'l that the Sailor | would be on his feet at the end of the sixth round. It was just a money grab- bing frameup, In which Johnson was a ready participator. These alleged battles occurred in 1907 be- | |fore Johnson wound up that campaign | by knocking out Jim Flynn at Colma In eleven rounds. Just a year later Lang- ford put Flynn to sleep in a punch. Then Johnson ' began the pursuit of Burns, which ended in Australia with the fight that has compelled Jeffries to come back to the prize ring. One can take a look at Burn's short ring record and be partially convinced when ‘ class. Hard on the heels of this initial victory came the Ft. Ancient Hill climb at Dayton and the Detroit relia- bility run, the Hupmobile winning in its class in both In the Buffalo fuel economy contest, it came off with a record of 36.8 miles on one gallon of gasoline, and first honors. In speed and endurance, it made its mark early, winning the six hour race at Brighton Beach in August, and two ten mile and one five mile races in Texas. Its mountain climbing record is unique. was the first automobile ever to reach the top of Georgla's famous Stone Mountain, under its own power and without assistance, which even a horse has never accompiished. It was the second car ever to ascend Mt. Greylock, Mass., under its own power, highest peaks of the Adirondack itself In mountain work in Colorado and California. After victoriously traversing the hot sands of the great American desert in the Los Angéles-Phoenix race, three Hupmoblles successfully crossed the snow- bound wastes between Detroit and New York early in January; and in the Dakotas, Colorado and Can- ade, snow toyrs of no less severity were completed It climbed the stee and aistl) HUPP MOTOR CAR COMPANY ponw ‘W. L. l‘luffmo.n. 2025 Farnam St. LICENSED UNDER SELDEN PATENT : . | 1906, | fakes, | exclusively, !last Spptember, | lighter. | quickly take advantage, it is thought, but it made a cleanup In The Hupmobile making an that it wasn't son to beat him. and at least forty much of a Burns, gix inches shorte pounds lighter, Wwas | knocked down with with a/right-hand up- Johnson In the second the fight, though | percut delivered by round. That blow won Johnson, unwilling or unable to drive| home a knockout wallop, allowed Burns to worry along until the fourteenth round when the police Interfered. Burns was nothing more than a middle- | | welght or a very light heavyweight when | he began to fight about ten years ago.| He couldn’t have known much about the game when Mike Schreck beat him in a ten-round bout In 1001 Five years ago Burns fought a twenty-round draw Wwith Jack Twin Sullivan and got a twenty- round declsion over Dave' Barry. Later he got a verdict over Sullivan In a similar bout and knocked Barry out iIn the twen- tleth round of a second encounter. He also boxed two draws with NKugo Helly, one of ten and the other of ewenty rounds, and finally recelved the referee's verdict after outpointing the lumbering Marvin| | Hart for twenty rounds. On the strength of that verdict Burns proclaimed himself heavywelght champion, as Jeffries, with nobody left to be whipped, had handed over the title to Hart. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien went twenty rounds to a draw with Burns in November, and in the following May Burns. double crossing and exposing O'Brien's beat him over the same route. It took Burns fitteen rounds to stop Flynn. | Then Tommy decided to meet soft snaps #0 Bill Squires, Gunner Moir, Jack Palmer, Jem Roche, Jewey Smith and other pugiistic lemons fell before him, | Not a' Real Champfon. didn't whip a real hamplon heavyweight when Burns was saved by the Sydney police, an assertion that the negro will not attempt to deny It s true that he toyed with Al Kaufman, | the California glant, in a ten-round bout but O'Brien knocked out Kaufman in 185, The defeat of Ketchel by the negro should never have been re- | corded, for the match was a freak and the result of foollsh judgment. Ketchel had the courage to tackle Johnson, though five inches shorter and nearly fifty pounds | He also had the nerve to force the fight and in the twelfth round he | scored a knockdown when one of his great | swings landed on the side of the cham- plon’s head. But the next instant, as John- |son jumped up and Ketchel tore in wide | open to land another smash, the black | man unhooked the same terrific right that had stopped McVey. The blow landed | flush on Ketchel's jaw, knocked him cold | and broke off several back teeth. Going over these battles, therefore, ring- sters are not inclined to admit that John- | son’s vietims were great pugilists. In fact, |they are reasonably sure they were not. | But there's something about this muscular, | cool headed, cold blooded black man that has caused the bellef thav-Jeffries is going | to have the fight of his lite. Possibly this is due to the fact that it's & question just | now whether Jeffries will be the great pugllist of six years ago or not. If he has lost that wonderful form Johnson will Johnson, therefore, o if Jeff is the real thing the colored man may see many - stars and comets, even though the sun burns brightly on the after- noon- of July 4 Including 3 Oil Lamps, Horn and Tools, On the new Los Angeles Motor- drome it recently turned a mile in 68 seconds, carry- ing full equipment of lamps and fenders. In the fewest words, the year has been one of triumphal progress for the Hupmobiles, Tts position is firmly. established. 1t ha® done anything and everything that any automobile with equal credit. could do, save that it sengers as the larger motor, sturdily upkeep; In short, by expected or found in cost. ascent pest and nguished an automoblile dealer these cars. Every Hupmobile dealer immediately if you so car. Or {f you do not know of a onstration. DEIRUIT, | with Trance, Bonnie Kelso, Prince Gal and | Follle Levy | since 1 Its good name has been won by its sweet-runnin, accepting whatever demand was made of it, by its continuous service, 1ts economy of which rank the Hupmobile with cars of far greater IS “BEST HORSE Owners Are Counting Much on Their | Skillful Riders. MANY STARS ARE IN THE FIELD | Honors of Track Bid Falr to Rather Well Divided the Senson. Be in Spo Dpring Coming NEW YORK, April 23.—~With the raeing | season now In full swing in the east a tew | remarks about the jockeys will not be out | of place. Time and time again good sport | has been ruined and a day's entertainment | spoiled by the Incompetency of some “sup- | posed to be” jockey. As In former years, the larger establish- nents have obtained the best boys; but | there are a few of the owners who race | upon @ small soale whose best “horse” is their rider, a few cases in point being Guy arner, George Benscoten and Eddie Tap- lin. Butwell is plloting the horses of J. R. | Keene, and as Pimmy Rowe will cam- paign close to forty horses this season it | looks as if his efforts will mostly be con- | fined to those of his employer. Powers, who Is under contract to Phil Chinn, will be available to others In quest of his services as his employer has but ten horses In training at present, elght of which are 2-year-olds. Grover Warren, a boy who has never performed before the eastorn public, comes | here with a good reputation and is under contract to the Quincy stable. Eddle Taplin, whose first eastern appear- ance was with the Dedwell stable last sea- son, is in the employ of R. J. MecKenzle, a well known Canadian sportsman, whose horses have been racing California throughout the past winter Guy Garner, considered by ‘horsemen the | most likely prospect in the country, Is ap- prenticed to Earl Linnell, but as his em- | ployer has but few horses second call has been obtained on his services by the New: castle stable, and as Tom Welch will han- dle upward of forty horses belonging to this establishment it goes without saying that the boy's time will be pretty well taken up In handling the horses of his con- tract employers. Matty McGee, whose mervices were ob- tained from his former employers, Hender- son & Hogan, by George Odom, will have | opportunity enough to make good, for in in the older division, to say | nothing of a dozen nice 2-year-olds, who on looks measure up to the best, he should rate close to the top. Notter, one might be justified In saying, | is “passe,” for no other reason but weight, | which will limit his opportunities. 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