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Show BOXING CARDS GETTING SCARCE ; Indications That There Will Be W ! No Labor Day Programme K '. ' Worthy of Note. K ') JACK JOHNSON TELLS B; OF HIS FIRST BATTLE !; Harry Lewis and Jim Smith Still K ' Have Ambitions for Mid- Wt i dleweight Title. ' ' lIM : BY JEFF THOMPBON. K I- j By Leased "Wlro to Tho Tribune- Bui - NEW YORK, . Aug. 20. Tho Labor day W . boxing programmo Is In doubt. The orlg- V '-, j Inal programmo was: I; i Tommy Burns vs. Sam Langford. ;, ; Battling Nelson vs. Ad. WolgasL Ij Stanley Kolchol vs. Harry Lewis. ft, '- It hoa begun to look as though thero K ' ' I will not be a big fight of Importance In K ; j this country next month. Tho Nelson- B Volgast negotiations fell through and ml , j anothor attempt was made to arrange a m) ' ', match between Champion Wolgaal and & . Packoy McFarland. Packey wants to meet N WolgaBt before he retumB to England. ?m but the Milwaukee boy wants so much M money that managers cannot consider his terms, A tentative arrangement was extended Into for tho men to engage In mm combat beforo tho New Orleans Athletic 1 club for a $10,000 purso In a 20-round bout, but tho Louisiana authorities are following the lead of tho Callfomlans In j the matter of pugilism now. Fearing that Mm ! It will hurt tho chances, of tho Crescent Mm City for securing the Panama Canal cx- lMm Eositlon, tho southern authorities aro ' Mm- ' arrlng prlzo fights. MM "What was the hardest fight I ever Mm ' hnd?" queried Champion Jack Johnson ' j whimsically. "Well, It happened nearly fiftoon years Mm ago near my old homo in Galveston. i Texas, and it was my maiden battle. I I was matched with John Loo. whn -wo si mm ' regarded then as the heavyweight cham- 1 mm plon of tho south. . .Mm "Ho was a veteran of tho ring, and I mm was only a kid seventeen years old, and ( tho trouble wo had In pulling off that ( MM fight didn't add anything to my confi- .( dencc. Xam "We were matched to fight on the i 1 H beach near Galveston, but tho authorities , ' got after us and chased us fourteen miles I I WM Into the country. Thero In an opon field the ring was pitched and beforo sucji ' spectators as wcro able to follow us in H our flight we went at It. f "Say, but that was a fight. Leo was It .a big colored fellow, who weighed 185 jfc. 'MM pounds, while I wolghed only 15$ pounds IffVI then. The hot sun beat down on us as afimmf we fought about tho ring, and I novor Spy mm did remember how I put that fellow down K' mW and out in the sovontoenth round. "But yJ I- know I- was" it 'mighty happy kia when . mm ho finally went down and failed to gut ' MM up and sail Into me again In that sev- K; mm cntccnth round. & mm "After that fight I concluded that thero f was1 more money for mo In tho prlzo -tmm ring than In anything clso I could do, f ifH and I resolved to stick lo It. for a year I ft llmm or two I was the stalking horcc in the K. 'Mm training camps of various fighters. I K 'Mm trained with Dan. Crecdon, Tom Tracy. W ilB Joo Walcott and other fighters. fJH A Lot of Satisfaction. - & H "Of course, t was proud to win the P Jl title from Tommy Burns, and I wns glad kVM I was able to defend It aga!ustU Kauf- fe man, Stanley Kctchel and Jim Jeffries, a. ',Jmm but I don't think I ever got so much &. .Mmm satisfaction out of any battle In mv life t Mmm as T did when I won over Frank Chlkls s :MU In twelve rounds In Los Angeles In 1S02. iH "I worked with Chllds when he was In E 'H training for soveral of his fights while ft' lm claimed tho colored hcawwolcht la mm championship of the world, and tho way llltl that fellow treated mo was a shamo. i-iifl "I didn't mind so much wnnt ho tried HI lo do to me In training quarters, but Kil Chllds wasn't on the square with me. ana KH I could have starved to death ror all ho KiflH cared. KH "Now maybe I didn't toll Chllds all Mmm about this when I got him going In our KH Los Angeles fight. When I saw I had IH him I thought of nil tho mean things ho had dono to me. and every time I BH handed him one T. told him about it. I IH certainly repaid Chllds with Interest for MW tho dirt ho had done mc wnen I pmc- yH tically ended his ring career. iH "After my fight with Chllds I was given MW recognition, and I havo worked always mmM with tho heavyweight championship In . jH view." IH Harry -Lewis, who spent a great deal mmt of time In Paris, la back here for a se- jfB rlous purpose. Ho wants to tight a do-clsive do-clsive battle with Stanley Kctchel for tho middleweight championship. Lewis wants 'MM to fight In Hcno whero a aeclslvc battlo mmm can be fought. Ho Is also aflor Billy JM Papkc. . , mm Jim Smith, the Now York middle- Mm weight, also has ambitions to become tho champion of his class. Ills little set-to with Stanley Kctchel did not tako all tho Mm tight out of him by a darned sight. MM Ho Is just ns enthusiastic as cvor about the game; ns much so as he was before 'Mm Stanley sent over that sleep wallop on MM i.im mm Jim's retention of hope Is based on tho fact that he wns practically a novlco MM when he tackled the champion, and ho IB thinks ho did very well under tho clr- i MM cumslnnccs. particularly In view of tho U M fact that Just a week beforo ho fought I ',MM Joo Jennotto a hard fight. 'MM All tills Information comes from his MM manager, George Hoffman. MM Mcintosh Wants Johnson. WW Hugh Mcintosh is evidently determined MM to gel Jack Johnson to sign up a fow JH fights which ho IntendH to bring off In ' MM England this winter, for he made him 'MM Hie fabulous offer of $75,000 to moot three men. tho first light to bo with Tommy imM Burns in three months. ,wM Mcintosh told tho writer that Johnson II wns willing to fight, but that ho thought M he should get more money for the three AH battles, "l think I will finally KCt John- son to accept my offor," said Mcintosh. II "ns I don't think he could get as much W as this amount for his end In thrco bat- M lies In this country." m Now that Lord Ixnsdalo, tho popular I English sporting mnn, has consented to nnme tho referee for a return battlo bo- - tween Packey MoKarland. tho Amcrlcnn jMt lighter, and Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight champion. It Is almost a cor- talntv that the managers of tho fighters will get together and sign articles of 1 agreement for the contest. lCugono Corrl. 1 mm the well-known English referee, will in H all probability be named by Lord Lons- dale, as he seems to bo tho most com- potent mnn for the Job, Tho fighters have already received thrco offers, two Mt of them being purses of $10,000. H Champion Jack Johnson has announced 1 that he had accepted an Invitation to ; deliver an nddrvps at tho atato fair to Iw held by negroes of Vlrclnla at Rich- mond. early In tho fall. When the lnvl- Kj, tathm to Johnson to snenk wns dellv. M. ored It Is stated that Colonel Roosevolt t iriRr-.H and Booker T. Washington nlso had been jSwH Invited to speak on the samn day and h vLmmMM from thu same platform. fii 'ijS'M Johnson was asked about tho opinion F' MM of the two men and ho said, rather jMt Continued on Following Pag . (-mW f -yj 'dHiymmmmm hWmmm p2:0 ' " j??V'$-yw 1 ' mmmW Iii BOXING CARDS l GETTING SCARCE Continued From PrnceSinjr Page, vaguely, that he thought Mr. Washington : ; was a good man and helped people along. , i He showed more enthusiasm, however, when he spoke of Roosevelt. He declared ! with much emphasis that he wished Roosevelt to be nominated for tho presl-. presl-. I dency again. "I'm for him all the time," ; 1 said Jack. "He's a man. that's what he is," t ; Out west they are mixing Jlu jltsu and l - boxing. A boxer armed with gloves tackles a jlu Jitsu expert. It is exciting sport and as yet there has been no legislation legis-lation against iU |