The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1911, Page 11

America’s Fremier Referee Tells of ihe Nerve- Testing | Circumstances Which He First Saw Joe Gans, * NO. 8—JOF GANS. @Wourth Lightweight C! mption.) Copyright, pat w3, The’ Pres Publishing Oo, New York World) OHALL no net ‘i ected with the occasion on which I fefereed my first fight in Baltimore. Tt was back in 18%, I had made quite @ Feputation around New York aa @ ref. eree, but had never officiated out of town. One day 1 received @ telegram offering me a certain amount of money to referee a bout between Joe Gans, colored, and Benny Pet ‘The battle was to take pla ow ‘ross the river from forge onal never heard of Gans, but Peterson was an exceptionally ood featherweight who had just boxed little Dizon a hard eighteen round draw. Benny had been Dixon's sparring part- her for @ long time, and I knew he was 00d. That wire tickled me almost to death. I @rabbed at the chance to show the ret- In fact I was #0 anxious to land Baltimore people that I wa: eres. the od that I cut down the price so's to iy fe sure I'd land ft. The fight wa: on Monday night, but I couldn't wait and lett a couple of days befure, in a new sult. opped off the train a New York friend came up to me and sald Chartie. What are you doing here which I replied: some and Gans. My friend gave a low chuckle, you've got a tough Job, said he. hurt, ity as a referee, I put up at Nixon the white sports walked up to reg “You thi that ftgnt congregated r the clerk a: and I told hin I surely was, “Old man, I wouldn't be in your boots for a whole fleet of oyster boats, You're up against a mighty flerce Job, clerk. Had a Few Hairs Then. Brush my lair-I had a few in jose diys—I strolled around and report- mo of the fight. The , Harry Jay, called me to “Look a-here! This me fight, and I want both men to get fair treatment. There's ng on it, and as there's bad with you."" Jay's remarks nettled me more than town, but every whe wilh the > Great Fi t Fighters Charley Wi Under| r forget the firet time I Dut my eyes on Joe Gans, nor shail 1 forget the exciting incidents con- (pu 0, 2 to| ‘Oh, I just came over to referee the fight between Peterson! “Gee, 1 didn't maXe any answer and was sort of I thought he doubted my abil- Hotel, where all @aid the have to have your nerve randed me THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL him with bottles | ie chairs, One Tough-looking fellow Faoved a bI hiny black gun up to the edge of the |A big tough oysterman stuck hie he between the ropes and remarked to me: “The ain’ no nigger agoin’ lick no White man in de South no moah!"" Then I suddenly came to @ full real-| ization of what my friends had meant when they had told me that “it would Saul mighty hard job refereeing the attie.”” Fans Wanted Gans Licked. Gans had beaten every fighter, black and white, they'd been able to put ageinst him, and the entire trouble " ‘They wanted Gans licked, and he wasn't to bi show winning. I told Joe to go ahend and fight Pe- terson and that I would protect him. Every time they'd corner I'd have to rate start them over again in ‘ne middle of the ring. It now plain that Gans would win if the fight was not interfered with, but the trouble had| been growing, and in the_ sixteenta round it began to look as ff the heel- ere would succeed in breaking up the bout. Near the close of that round| mi Gans dropped Benny tn the latter’s| cbrner, and it looked like the finish. I stood over Paterson counting. When I'd beached five “Wilmington Jack" Daly | and another husky fellow put their terson to his fee 1 we in the act of disqualifying Peterson when {t oc- curred to me that Daly was not one of, Benny's seconds, Instead at "Wilmington Jack." 3 I ordered the men to continue, and! at the bell Peterson was again on the| jor, Colored Men Had Hunch. Immediately there was a great uproar, and terrible excitement prevailed. Those fifty colored men on the top the fence, 1 noticed, had all removed their hats and coats and dropped them to walting friends in the boats below. They must have known what was coming. The seventeenth round proved the final one, After a good mix-up Peter- Gans out blow, at Down went Peterson. As I fairly rained within the ropes. Daly ‘held a chair over my head, and some lone hurled one of the locomotive head- lights into the ring. The lamp broke and the kerosene took fire. Somebody out the fii and I counted Peter- out. le next Instant T was hurled in the direction of the board fence upon whtch the coons were sitting. T shall never| forget the funny sight they made as they all fell over backward and into the There were several loud plashes, and then I didn’t hear hing more because of the nols me. Gans and Seconds Hid. Poor Joe Gans and his five husky seconds took refuge under the stage. The crowd was wild to get holds of @ warning South, I didn’t « I found nant aD of che 1 featherwelzhts, ing every white boxer In the city. include management of Keirnan's Theatre, a place where boxing was held most every closed, had “ringers in an effort to peat little Gans, But he'd beat thing they'd stacked him far, and they had brow Decause was ¢ white boy In the country to have Gans beaten in the w of way futted out into © ring was A eras, against the outer side of the pier. locomotive headlights tlluminated the Bome came by tro some by fn the small rowboats didn't pa: Just climbed up the waterway and took board fence. them and they Gently they to make a quick getaw There were about were all colored. y in ft was a touch, looking erowd. Untle Joe G vias the first time I'd ever seen followed hy onda, entered the ring an sense applause, Bi stationed out Sor Traian’ notice the: the evening The men were given told them Ta disquallty or numerous Je of t ded was actions, wome reason, Didn't Like Gans’s Style. At the end over to Gans’s here, young style of th ing back. are doing your best I'm you out of the ring a “Ahm @ , rig sah; afraid te go dat boy tn rner and sald yw, I don't ike T th s you sh but and was going t head with | ‘KN Jang would got tnto Peter Ing the nfxt two roun STANDING mamonah LEAGUE. tape, 4 jt Louis, ooklya vs, New om al Bt Louis at Cincinsal Pittsburg at Chicago, Fang had cleaned up The The fight was held on a bie fo ok bok that vesapent 2 | it up Six m, and they seemed to forget me for a while. Suddenly the mob began to quiet down and looked as though all were trying to get away as rapidly as they could. I couldn't understand ft, 1 heard | voice at my shoulder saying, “It's all| young fellow. jd now, You did mighty wi ng around I saw two strans of them had been pointed out in town as the best rough fe fighter and the best gun alt im He has since become one jof that town's leading politiclaua end ver Ithy into the bargain, y w friend sug; riage and drive {nto a I th OUERE the trolley would be safe, the car T overheant an oysterman One to and degan to arrive. wagon, ané others in small boats. The fellows they ladders eats along the top of the fifty of ted to be in a position case of a rumpus, As the piace filled I sawthatltme 1 ever saw little Joe Gani red the ring, int | come one of the best lightwelghts t w sec- recelved im-| also had sev- nm ouncil later In| etions, 1! the man who holding back or pulling the fight for of the fifth round T went your k you're hold- [have thet Aisqualify you." I'm s own y corner, but getting hot fe white man's seconds would threaten ark “We should have got ahold that referee and the nigger end thrown | m into the Bay." Whenel arrived with my friend at my/ | hotel I was thinking I'd get-a rough deal | from the white sports for sure, but my | friend's reputation was such that they didn't offer to bother me in any way. In fact, many congratulated me on sticking with the Job of referee. And that was what happened the first the lad _who was later on to be- colored 1d bas ever known and ch 3 class. The next chapter, appearing to- morrow, will deal with “Joe Gan Career.” ‘ Holmer Meets Ljungstrom in 15-Mile Race ——— Hans Holmer, the crack Amertoan Marathon runner, and Gusta Ljuns- strom, the famous little Swede, are to fifteen-miia battle to-night at holas Rink, The winner is to be pitted against Bill Queal tn a con- test over @ distance of ten, twelve or Afteen miles, Queal defeated Shrubbd at Twelfth Regiment Armory on Sat- ay night in one of the most sensa- nal indoor races ever seen in this jeountry, Charley Harvey has deen aclested to referee to-night's ra The five-mile open event, which ts A to precede the mato race, has a number of entries, prom- ong them boing Harvey Cohn, ex, Charle Miller and W. Ko: ‘The Inst named wae also |\iotor on Saturday night, taking frat |money in the three-mile handicap held prior to the Shrubb-Queal race. the St. ved OF THE CLUBS. aMETucaN ke Chicago Lonis, Cleveland at Detroit, E, Sullivan, secr ‘easurer of the mmavene Athletic Union, to close the entries at eo early a date, and he hopes that the Ameri- cans’ protest will be the means of in- the Olympic Committee of Sweden to change the timo to a later n says that, no matter ther the date is changed or not, th! end over a winning at the opening of the cycle racing sea- ‘aileburg track {n won the one-mile professiona handicap and the five-mile event fo: Frank Kramer dropped ¢ the fourth mile from «STlbeok + SPARKLING News and Gossip GINGER ALE: Picked Up Around Sporting Circuit OWING TO THE FACT THAT THE |° Olympte Committee of Sweden has s lected next June for the closing of en- tries for the Olympic games to be held at Stockholm, Swed ican Olympte Committ \. to file a protest with the games committee claiming that the early clos- ing of the entries will prevent them from MATTY BALDWIN TO MEET CLEVER FREDDIE WELSH They Will Rounds at Armory A. 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