Show I ALL IMPORTANT SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS' FROM Y V A u MEN ARE HA HARD TIME TIMI There Will Soon Be No on Earth for forI I Them JOKE ON LUCKY BALDWIN Stanley Ketchel Once More 1 Is Anxious to Fight i Johnson I BY nr JOE MURPHY Republican Special Service San Sail Francisco Fe 6 Pity the tho lo lot of tho racing man tho owner and antI trainer and Jockey the bookey booley and j the the tout the tho plunger and pike There jwill will soon be no place on this grand earth for them South and West Vest and andi tin i in New ew Orleans they the soon the frozen face tho the Icy mit marble marblo mar mar- marNo ble No heart and the big stick sUck Then rhen the tho coast was their only haven Now the California legislature has cut the tho I ground bround from under their feet teet and tho the governor go of ot T Washington has called upon the legislature now In session at Olympia to make race racetrack track Sam gam bling bUng bookmaking and pool selling felonies with penalties that stop short only of ot burning at the tho stake or a 3 banishing to Siberia Thomas H. H Williams jr president of ot the tho New California Jockey club and several sc others representing racing racing rac- rac ing Interests talked to the members of ol the California legislature till tho they were black In the face and their breath was exhausted but were no nomore nomore nomore more affected than if they had talked ItO to tho the wind-tossed wind waves of the tho tem tem- Pacific With tho the majority of or the tho legislature pledged to support th the tho all l Walker alker er Otis race anti-race track bill which makes book felon making makInI a felony and with Governor Gillette outspoken il in his declaration that he would woul sign any race anti track bill no matter if it It made mado book making a capital crime what chance did the they have havo The provisions pro of the Walker Otis bill are arc similar to those of ot the New ew NewYork NewYork York raco race track law with the one exception exception ex ex- that pool sellers ellers in California will be allowed sixty days dars in which to wind up their affairs AS s this extension extension ex ex- tension will date from the time at which the governors governor's signature nature is penned to the tho document the thc law probably would not become operative until after the present meets are aro over Where will we go now is the question all the horsemen are ire asking Somo Some seek seck to find their answer in Ineada Nevada e others in Lower California while there are some talking of opening opening open open- ing lug the game in British Victoria The race anti track le legislation turns the Joke Jolo on Lucky Baldwin Last fall Baldwin came camo up to Los I Angeles from his ranch an and offered to bet against that no I race anti-race track law would wo ld pass fJ the tho next session of ot pie tho legislature legislature- Jj a d h u l' l w 11 stop raco race gambling In Inthe the tho next five 11 yeara Why llY It would be bo suicide to doIt lo do loIt o oit there thore thousand thousand thousand thou thou- It ho he said Now ow are sand of tourists who come hero here very every winter because Los Angeles and San nn Francisco afford a ft little lItfin snort and u recreation during the winter winter- period Both cities would lose loso tremendously if racing were stopped Why should It We will have tho cleanest and best sports here this winter ever er known in the United States All of which goes to sho shoy how littie little little lit lit- tle tie even enn time old-time wiseacres like Lucky Baldwin know about legisla legisla- tures While tho racing folks have been hard har from the Ule getting it good and lawmakers the tho prize lighting fighting game has lias been going along along- w very n. n smoothly with no cloud clou in the horizon an and all the tho prize rings busy and prosperous But Just as It was the confident opinion of all that tho the legislature would satisfy the demands of tho the mor morally scrupulous by giving givIng- tho the racing Interests a probably fatal tatal bump there has como come to light what tho thu promoters of pugilism called a conspiracy among some somo members of the legislature to throw prize fighting fighting fight fight- In ing Into the discard It has aroused much righteous Indignation among the devotees de of the squared circle Much hot Is being indulged Indulge in and were we're hearing hearIng- what great good the prize ring is accomplishing for the youth routh of ot our country Prize Prizefighting lighting fighting Is better and ana cleaner now before In 11 its history 1 than it ever e was says sas Eddie Smith one of or tho the sporting writers of authority on the coast ft n t is said that some of tho the men who have made up their minds to do o otheIr their worst for the tho game gamo of boxing are men who have ha become disgruntled through the fact tact that they have havo been beon overlooked In the matter of ot passes for forthe forthe the tho shows given ghen In San Francisco This I am sure is not the case for while a man ma may have a spite to work out on some individual promoter promoter pro pro- moter It hardly seems possible that he be would woul so far forget himself himsel as to totI tI try to cause legislation that would rob many maIn thousands of people of a chance to witness tho the best drawing sport in the world to spite ono one promoter promoter pro pro- moter or even cn over every promoter In San Francisco The boxing boring game is 15 cleaner an and beU better r than tItan It has ever been in the the legislators legislators legisla legisla- history of ot the sport and tors will ca easily nr be bo convinced con that I they are aro on the tho wron wrong track of ot re reform ro- ro f form In trying to abolish a sport that has been relieved of all prospect of ot I jobbery through several reasons an ani and andone andone i one that entertains so many thousands thou- thou thousands I sands every ery year r Of Ot course courso there are those mon men who believe that this world worl can cnn only be made pure through tho the elimination of Qt all sorts of or amusement t and sports unless It be croquet lawn n tennis s golf or button button it Is just whose whoso got the tho button and I possible pos that some such person may rua r introduce a bill abolishing the boxing game But with the game g going along in the clean manner that It ft has forthe for forthe few It seems to mo me the tho past years cars that there are few tow in the Senate who would vote yote to suppress ss it Jeffries J hasn't yet ct decided whether I ho will fight n ht Johnson lie Is too busy bus a week as a earning his 2500 vaudeville artist When hen that IA Is over nver and I If it there is no other soft sort snap like It at ai hand and Johnson has ha defeated Langford Longford and If ho he Is In In good form and if the th purse Is big enough why why wen well he may mar tight light tho the thone ne negro o. o Of or course If It Langford should come out victor Ictor In fri his contest with tho the champion then the whole matter would have o to be bo gone over o again But DUt after atter all Is said an and done there la Is only one ono point involved in and that IB is the purse If it is big enough Jef Jet fries will fight Johnson or Langford or a anybody d- d else In rn the tho meantime there are other fighters lighters anxious to get Into tho limelight limelight lime lime- light an and rake off of a big purse Among these Is Stanley Stanle Ketchell who has I taken his pen In hand as follows I 1 had made mado up my mr mind before the Johnson Burns-Johnson fight never to fight a colored man Now that the great bulk bune of the thc American sporting public seems to be Incensed over the fact that Johnson is the reco recognized champion champion cham chain pion plon I am thoroughly willing to tight light him But all other negroes I will bar The rhe fact that I am willing to fight J Johnson ohn on is proof positive that the talk of my being afraid of ot Langford Langford Langford Lang- Lang ford is all an boshI boshI bosh I 1 am nm the middleweight champion of the world Langford Is the heavyweight hea heavyweight heavy heavy- weight and he has not beaten any of or orthe the men that I have ha Looking over o Langfords Langford's record during durIng- the last year ear tho the best performance he lie has done Is his ability to beat such fellows fellows fellows fel fel- lows as Jim Barry whom it took tool thirty nine rounds for Kaufman to beat in Los Angeles I would have beaten Jim Flynn in the samo same Jig time that Langford did I am an tired of ot hearing about Langford and his challenging Let him go gro against the I have havo In tho the meantime meantime mean mean- time as long as the public Is looking for a champion to fight Jack Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son I will be lie read ready when they call caU upon me Not wishing wishIng- to knock nn anybody anybody any any- body bod or anybody's pretensions I know In my heart that I am the only logical opponent for Jack JohnsonI Johnson I r made up m my mind sometime ago agoto agoto agoto to bar negroes but as long as thero there Isa Isa is isa a great demand for somebody to wrest tho the championship from flom the black I Iam Iam Iam am willing to take tho tIm chance and if I fight Langford then the tho others who are arc pretending championship ability will have havo to light fight it out amongst them them- selves I have ha assurances private an and personal that Johnson will give cut tho the money mo me a match lie HE can the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- any way wa he ho desires In time all of or the other challenges I have heard about from the other to except except ex ex- heavyweights are Jokes joltes mo me Jim Corbetts Corbetts Corbett's showing in the last few years cars when everybody everybody every overy- body bod expected ho was out of ot the game ame for tor good entitled him to tion You never know what a fellow of the Corbett stripe can do In the meantime however I feel that It takes a strong husky fellow with a a. wallop In either cither hand han to bring the championship home where it be be- longs |