The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1909, Page 14

reg JOHNSON TOP TO DATE | AND NEWSY | WON'T FIGHT “JEFF” WITH WHITE REFEREE e+e. Third Rgwom in Ring Must Be Colored Man Before He Will Agree to Meet the Big Fellow. RE Cc Johnson. E'VE all been very much ex-| W cited over the question whether or not big Jim Jef: tries would come out to fight Jack Nobody has had the fore sight to wonder whether or not Jonson would fight Jeffries. And | now, all of a sudden, we learn that | Johnson has developed cold feet. Over in Australia Johnson pub- lely announced that he'll never fight |———— Jeffries !n America unlese he has a colored referee !n the ring. We know what that means. Johnson doesn't | want to fight. He will no more get | into a ring with Jeff now than he | would go down into a cellar with the champion when Jeff offered to take | THE BEST SPORTING [aa SteceRuo VILL $How AMERICANS VAT (93 OF & PERFECT MAN DER CHEST = Xes! | ! | C19 JON FLANAGAN IN THE Howse ? ) THE EVENING WORLD, Teo) Com! Sucm & AEC MUSCLES | AND SucH A ARM MUSCLES @ \T NOUL@ SCARE wou} Donlin and ‘Mim there and leave $5,000 in Harry Corbet’s hands to be given to the man | pho came out. Johnson's demand {s only a trick by which he hopes to get out of fight- fag Jeffries at all. He knows that the condition would not be tolerate! by | eny club in America. In the first place, |me colored man has ever acted as ref- It Lewis and Mellody are matched the Paristans wil! see more genuine fighting jqree in a big fight. No colored man has/in @ few rounds than {n all of the lever had a chance to show that he | second- -rate matches they stage there in impould be a good and reliable referee. | the season. Mellody knows nothing but in 4s quite useless to beat about thé | how to tear in and fight all the time. lgush and indulge in platitudes. It 1s 4 Lewis, having a new and untarnished | jfmot that a prejudice exists that would | reputation to defend, will meet Mellody | j@ake it impossible for any club in i dmerica to put a colored referee in the ging in a championship event—or, per- ‘Raps, even in a preliminary. With more confidence than he displayed last time at Valley Falls |!3 “right” and tn fighting mood he can |*R8 club cal for |put up as cinssy an article as aay cham- Fitzpatrick, Johnson's manager, backs | pion in the game. the negro in his demand, and says that ibe will not allow articles to be signed | jf they name a white man as referes, | ‘he reason given 1s that Johnson would | ibe “robbed.” In Europe Johnson would laccept a white referee, but not an American. This is a pretty ugly slap ‘at the honesty of American sporting men. But underneath the surface there's mothing in the whole affair except the faet that Johnson doesn’t want to fight (Jeffries. He knows there's no chance of (Jeff's chasing around the world to beg Hor @ match. He's safe as long as he | Wticks to his “ultimatum \If Johnson does stick he'll find his championship” an empty honor. Sup- pose, for instance, that Jeffries made a Match with Al Kaufman. Once fighting in, he'd surely be recognized as gpamplon. He has nev. Tommy Burns had beaten Jolinsc ‘Australia, and later Jeffries had re tered the ring, the result would jbeen the,same. With the giant in a elon Tommy Burns would have been ‘overshadowed. I imagine that {t wouldn't make a lot a difference to Jeffries whether the ref- was white, black, red e old fighting Jeff be satisfied to have half once, and make it a battle ros UNG OTTO'S detent by. Teach | Cross hasn't entlr iNed prospects. Yester is received a cable from the nia “Wonderland,” one of Lond fighting clubs. The: words; “Bring Otto.’ Baltic Saturday The defeated lightweight will have at least three matches !n London, and will probably win them easil en he has Paris to fall back on, to return wi were $ They sa I asked Cross @ day or so ago if O! “stung” him in thelr fight at the Fair mont “Did he?" exclaimed aay he did, 1 never f before. Why, in the t clipped me on the bell. I turned to couldn't see !t pla! in a haze. But I'd b Otto didn’t see you drop after a punch We that he lost heart. I ran tc y corner. I wanted hitn to see m that he'd think his punch me.’ Here Leach peeled rolled his left shirt {Mt would go. His tled blue from ell that with one pu: Was taking care to th arm. You bet ne can Cross did pretty wel to knock out a walloping machine lke that ONEY MELLODY s 8 aut to Paris, Willie In Paris, continuing the knock palgn t tarted there last yea Mellod rally thinks he has something on Willle He {8 going to try to b the Paris good thing aw Young Taichi Wins Tame Bout trom P. Sullivan “Young Loughire the game |} Gelphia fighte te one of our Bee Four Mile Event at I. A. A. C. Meet Will Have Splendid ‘ist of Entries °. Paddy = Sul! b Brooklyn light doing consid last seven m s got They came toget eaten rounds at the stag & C., and alt thi Sin distancs ‘air. One of the most sting ts of the evening was that A Jack Brenna f Hack Innied and the bout had Brennan got was fixed np by h for another chance returned to the rin tound bout, Brenna x by walloping hi = — WITH BABY DEAD AT HOME ROBINSON WINS FAST FIGHT. (Special to The Ey ik World.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 28.— With his baby dead at Chicago, his home, Jack Robinson fought and bested Mickey McDonough, of Brooklyn, at the Wayne A. C. last night. Robinson received word of the death of his child from his w at noon yester led to start for home at once, but “dectded to stay for the bout so appoint the largest cr chib has ever ente Up to the third ro: in which Mickey fn the honors were a that Robinson had all the better the fighting, The bout from beg to end was one of the best at the club, Both n all the way, and an instant « English Featherweight Is Con- ceding About 12 Pounds to Hard Hitting Opponent. BY JOHN POLLOCK, M DRISCOLL, the English e welght champion and one of the cleverest foreign boxers that eve: to That Collins, the holder of the When Lewts | | Giants’ Star Outfielders Want More Money From Brush for This Season, IKE DONLIN and Cy Seymour M have joined the winter “hold out’ club, and both they | will refuse to play with the Giants next | season unless more mi 3 forthcom- ing than the contrac Doniin is fact that he ts riding right up on the |front seat of the water wagon now. | Mike claims that when he was not holding down that position he ald not the Glants that he ecelved, and now that he good he thinks he should get won't play 1] almost a 1 before the players will report for the trip to the South, and the | two hold 11 have plenty of time | before it is neces- | to MeGraw Donlin ha keep hfs theatrical engagemente until Mareh 15 Springs conting: | that time. The Highiandors will leave for Maco early in March, yut ty “ DRISCOLL GOING OUT OF HIS SOS IN BOUT WITH MARTO MAKTO Grath and J. J. & Westchester youta Louis this week, and! bases his claim for more ealary on the | y this season. He | en granted permission to | and will net join the Marlin; Seymour | Join ‘ ‘Hold Out” Club in Lou Criger, recently wold by the Boston team to the St. Louls Americans. Criger an- hounced with great nolse that he poatttrely would not play with the Browns uniess he got some of the money turned over to the Boston club for his release. Jimmy McAleer, the bose of the Browns, rounded up Criger at bia home in Bikhart, Ind., and got his signed | contract without much trouble, Cri do most of the catching for the Browns teason, | There 1s another story about Doniin sent | out from St. Loule that looks @ littie bit fishy, It ts to the effect that Donlin has ceived a big money offer to take his theatri cal act to England for a term of weeks, Now sent them by | over in England they know just about as | much about baseball as they did atout han pic gumes last summer, fo |t's Pine dling Oly hard to see where there would be much nourishment in thie trip for Mike, Don't commence to worry, you right field Polo Ground bleacherites. Your !do!, Mike, will be Ren on the job when the bell rings nest | SCHOOL HEADS OPPOSE NEW PLAN 10 TEACH BOYS BOXING ie Head of A. \Boys Are Now Reve: Taught | to Box With Imaginary Foes. BY VINCENT TREANOR. HE plan of Dr. O'Hanlon and Cor oner Harburger to Introduce be: {ng in the public schools a means of knocking out tuberculosis an‘ other prevalent diseases has not met with the hearty accord of those | charge of the athletic training of young’ New York Bh ne consensus ot c ng them Local veins 1 Has Trained Faithfully, and Expects to Win Bout. ‘Snorting News In Short Chunks sketbaillere ha: serday, win At the Broad. jain SoKay 40 to 30 in fifty ohe innings THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1909. PAGE IN NEW YORK | SIEGFRIED HE ISS A VONDER! EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN 195 ON DeR BRIDGE CHUST LINE DER BRooniyN! . IN CHERMANY MIT’ DER BEER WEGS LEARNED HE CRUST USED TO’ PLAY MIT DoT HACK ENSCHMIOT, Ln Siegtried Ready for His American Debut ema | Po-Night IN FRONT 1s HE VASH= BOARD + ¢*) AT Home $5 HE ALWAYS A GREAT HELP TO THE FAMILY ON VASH *DAYS = 5 THREE-CORNERED RELAY AT aTTH'S S$ BIG GAN A. U. Says That 4 Sparring Would AMUSEMENTS. | HIPPODAUIE __ AMUSEMENTS. ) NEW AMSTERDAM RIN ‘Stee THE MERRY WIDOW. G.P. HUNTLEY Kitty Grey any wea q BATTLE Vik. 3 Motion Spectacle, i SEE AKE, The Vampire Mauine Elliott's isi ey, WisSELLIOTT ie paths I WAS DYING WIEN I BEGAN TO FIGHT, SAYS WAULIFFE murteat 3 TWINS’: Ye DALY'S la FAVERSHAM CASINO Mh EDDIE FOY snl THE BLUE MOUSRUSand t . zoecerprae be } ; ft Sat yt terated t a iON DW paca ti }, “th red uy et? eet T i Ne Ri ee attat ; ea means 1 | piot “iB Dy 1 i pa =e I : DAIL ¥ MATS, : 8 CA D\ILY, Bye, : vat siscssi 11 MILDRED HOLLAND," homer Bea = |) ptt & Sse a $20. \S The | : THES Fi ene MEL - rs | ery | | t Ma Grand OBILE SHOW, sbier Models exhibit shaft and Ri | ise ae ii GA IETY AON 1a THE THRVELIN saLesWiW Mrs. Leslie bart yas sii see | with John Barrymore and Sallie Fiaher, CIRCLE 3)1134 THE QUEEN id THe wouuit ili EMPIRE { MAUDE ADAMS \ ls Taught Boys In School Now. WOMAN KNOWS ETHEL aT Next Monday THE 1 WM. Aa ‘ CRITERION Pit ie sans WM. Cas 1s SAMSON Ret ELEANOR ROBSON Kalekerbocker. B'y i ita ANAL tir na “Attention now, Other Exercises Serve Purpose, SHES She, pate » lead with your right, p back, block with your lett! again, step out, lead, block AMERICAN 5 Junte y kind and with ned up in the Kyms of regular intervals their lesson tn boxing eb 1. Marry Lauder, YORKVIL LE } troduction of boxtr 8 shool neh New York, 8 8 reK tar form of their I with the possible he several schools in 2s rat Live 1 el *ahrite Annette Kellerman, Tuscany Troubad: rues sia Ine BLANCHE Bate ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14 2 wks-miory David i presents David mstantial , as told above, in classes Mat. Dally, ge Peat tay ys are taught Just xing with gloves? dnt be wise nor would mean the ors welcome, Hac & fe art i, Sullivan Says Protests Would Follow Plan. rior his eye or would be the re Mender, perhaps, BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. j CHERRY. MLOSEO! 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