| Show BURNS m SHOULD V i K MEET JOHNSON Siler Says Colored Man Is the Most Logical Opponent for Bunk Champion JACK NOW DRAWING CARD PROMOTERS WILL OFFER BIG PURSE FOR THIS FIGHT BY GEORGE SILER U Jack Johnson the colored heavy heay heavyweight heavyweight weight who defeated Jim Flynn at San Francisco o on November 2 arrived in town yesterday ye but showed no marks of or his recent fight Speaking of the battle he said Flynn deserves a lot of credit for taking him himon on and for Cor the fight to him hint when able to todo do to so Regarding Tom Tommy Tomm Tommy my m Burns the big black said gald he will willbe bs be In Now New cw York to meet Tommy when he arrives from England and demand he makes goed his promise e of giving him a fight Asked If he lie would agree to give Burns 76 75 per vel cent of the money mone win In S lose or 01 draw he said he would fight him under conditions and that he would bet his end of or the purse regard regardless regardless regardless less of the size of it that he will win winI I J demonstrated in my ray battle with Flynn that I can fight and that I have he heno no yellow ellow streak Johnson said I also convinced the Frisco promoters promoter that I am a drawing card They had hada a pretty good opinion of my abil abilities ItI before the fight tight but they always alwa 8 said I war wai a dead one from a box of office office fice flee standpoint Jim Coffroth and Tex Rickard will go as high as for a fight between Burns Bums and me and would W hunch the purse Durse for a fight tight between Jeffries and me Coffroth and my manager Sanf San Fitzpatrick are trying t to induce Jeff to fight but I guess Jim JimIs JimIs Jimis Is out of the game for good I expect Sam here hero in a day da or 01 two and then we le lewill will know more about Jeff Johnson did not brag over oer his hl Flynn victory simply stating he lie knew he could beat teat him and that he advised d his friends to bet he would lick him quicker than did Burns In my opinion Johnson was Burns logical opponent before he beat Flynn FInn but his victory over the makes his claim to a match just a wee bit stronger The big black is being lionized on the coast for the clever cleer manner In which he beat Flynn and also for his gameness as the supposition supposition supposition tion was he had bad a bit of the yellow streak as it is termed when combating an aggressive and hard hitting fighter tighter Of the two Flynn is entitled to the most credit as he is a much smaller man and less scientific He gave away at least twenty pounds in weight and fully five inches in height and reach roach At that he lie carried the fight tight to the big fellow and kept at it until the black stretched him on the canvas Besides Flynn took on a man the best heavies In the country excepting Mike Schreck did not care to meet Even Al Kauf Kaufman Kaufman Kaufman man who beat Schreck passed John Johnson Johnson S son up as too tough tou h a proposition Fur Furthermore the best fight critics in the United States conceded Jack the vie vic victory tory directly the match was clinched Flynn was aware of tills this and if he was not 1101 the betting 2 to 1 on the black practically told him the outcome ex expected expected expected If that did not enlighten him the first few Cew rounds of the fight tight did unless he cannot see sec through a sieve as Johnson thus early in the fight dem demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated his superiority Therefore it itIs ItIs itis Is not what Jack did but the scientific manner In which he lie did It that makes him appear the best heavyweight In iii Inthe 1 the country There was not one minute during the eleven rounds of fighting that he was not master of the situation and It is for the skillful and masterly manner in which he did the job that he heis heis heis is being touted as the coming cham champion champion champion S pion |
