Show NOBODY IN SIGHT TO WHIP JACK JOHNSON defeat of jeffries leaves no fighter on whom the white race can depend to wrest the champion away from the black man says he will W ill not fight langford by KNOCKOUT jack johnson now finds himself in much the same position that jim jet ries was in when he defeated jack bunroe back in 1904 there Is nobody for him to fight johnson has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that he Is the peer of any man in the mitt game and it if he fie takes care of himself it will be a long time before ny any man will be able to take the cham chain i loushil lon shil crown from hia his head sam langford Lang tord talks of fighting jack and has challenged the big black tor for a battle johnson says he will pay no attention to the declaring such a ii fight would not draw I 1 don t think langford can whip kauffman hauffman or ketchell said jack and everybody knows neither of these men have a chance with me tommy ryan has been coaching a big irishman known as con 0 kelb kelly tinder rans ryan s instructions 0 kelly relly aon on his first battle a fight with a man named comiskey whom no per eon son ever heard of but foxy tommy isn t going to put his man against johnson for ome time to come if at all johnson is so much better th than an any other man now in the ring that the only hope tor for the white race lies in some being developed in the next year or two who can get him into the ring out of condition as he h has been in several battles since he defeated tommy burns up to the time johnson fought jet tries fries there were many who said the negro didn dian t have the necessary punch to defeat a good man this no doubt was as due to the big blacks peculiar style of milling he always has been content to take his time and go easy with an opponent before the fight with jeffries jetties johnson lincon Jo said he intended to prove that ha he did have the pinch p mch and he did then there were the people who nho said that johnson had a yellow streak it if he has jeffries was un able to find it and it if jeffries couldn coulden t make it show there s little chance for iny any other man to do so jim corbett i was one of those who openly declared that johnson was lacking in bravery jeffries will make him jump out ot of the ring said corbett again pom jim was wrong rong it is a no tact that corbett never has been able to pick a winner he ile thought burns would wh p johnson he ile thought gans mo ild defeat nelson we all know the results of those ba bat corbett complained before the fight that jeffries did not box eno agh he ile made the same excuse after jeffries was knocked out there probably is some truth to this but it la Is doubtful whether the result would have been any different now comes the question could johnson have whipped the lettries Jet tries that whipped bob its a hard question to answer and the ex tail fall to agree prom present day indications it is doubtful n nether hether there ever was a better man than johnson john L sullivan was the kind of man who Is made to order for johnson s style of fighting sullivan a 8 wild swings and bull like rushes woud N have been easy for jack johnson would have peppered john L the way he did jeffries he ile would have met me these rushes with the famous upper cut and would have had no difficulty in blocking the swings A fight be tween johnson and jim corbett have be en pretty to see but corbett ier ie r had the p pinch inch that would have A whipped johnson and it Is doubtful it if jim would have weathered more than one or two wo uppercuts for my part I 1 believe bob I 1 mons in his prime wold wo ild have been a harder man for johnson to whip than any of them but bob would have been at the same disadvantage as he was with jeffries Jeff rles thirty or to 40 pounds difference in weight would have been too much even for the freck led one we haye have got to give it to johnson and it Is to be hoped that he behaves himself that big purse he won will pay many a fine for auto speeding and he will make mahe much more in the next year or so on the stage one result of the fight was to increase the feel ing of dislike between the races it caused roots all over the country between whites and blacks and in these 1 attles the blacks being outnumbered bot the worst of 0 it one of the worst of the flights was in washington and balor sylvester chief of the capital police issued an order the next day forbidding the showing of the moving pictures of the battle in that city |