Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 23 | [Illegible] Matches Are Barred [Illegible] in American Fight Centers

K'igncan Fight Lenten -Meets Johnson It Will Have to Be EBul Iky Frets Announced Princi- Wton Money Is in Sight. pBggVio.wM the while SSJbIt1!! aver mado in SBiKtr have ovory i SiBWL u CcGDt match- rlB2net Jack John-jhmg John-jhmg tun0 for flB!El5r m3 intention MBS&'hi San Francesco SESin .the exact lan- BlL.and Pelky havo ex-of ex-of heart. The for fcool that Pfllkj' bas TK ?kM with Jack John-hUv John-hUv mado up his HE!'"tf the terms aro JjBb tf this dcrablo somor-EkuM somor-EkuM he Is satisfied a stflgo where any SjKlulick him. He adds IriBBb h duff hound to send fK'dtmplDnhip for the 'CKn'ttisk I ought to do 'iCir to recover it' says 'dKiKidihlo impulse, Tom-HEiiua't Tom-HEiiua't you fee that von . .K&trln a doubtful light? VHtoa k asy to lick and HtKbpn to the suspicion JciaJtm before because flHttti were patting Pelky SKftiW him actuated by rH&elHsb motiresl jBfti'u though there is to VB&t old order of things, JH.fc only one who has jHiio tbe principles of the tfehopeEj for ''Gun- MHifbting both Jack John- jBJsdB Tom SIcOarey lii'tspeiue of offering a TMwalp belt. Tho fat ia in 1 the firo and it, looks as though magpie matches will bo aa common as iltoy were a few years ngo nt least in places whero the authorities and tho promoters will stand for them. Having shouted to tho winds that the bars are. down so far as ho is con-corned, con-corned, Mr. Polity will scarcely bo allowed al-lowed to confine himself to halfway measures. Uavijig signifiod a willing-nesB willing-nesB to'meet ,Tack Johnson, he will have to extend similar courtesies to Sam Langford. Arthur might get around tho dilemma by announcing that Langford is ineligible in-eligible on the score that ho is not "easy to lick," b.ut. it is doubtful if Bnrn's's protcgo would humiliate him-solf him-solf thus. Langford Demands Match. No, sir. If the Johnson-Pelky fight took placo and Polity enmo out on top, Langford would be ready with his demand for a match, and the public would stand behind hiin. And even if nothing comes of the Johnson-Policy proposition and to be truthful, I do not think anything will come of it Pclky has Jcit himself wide open so far as a challenge from Langford is concerned. Since ho was willing to box one. negro he cannot very well refuse to box another. If the bar is to be removed in connection, con-nection, with championship contest's, it probablj- remains that America will see very few such' events in the future. It "is easy for white hopes to turn ilip-llapsj but the present places which have set thoir faces against mixed matches will stand pat. Mixed Matches Barred. There can bo no mixed matches in New York and none in Los Angeles. While the local administration in San Francisco has not declared itself emphatically em-phatically against such affairs, the course pursued by tho governor when Johnson and Jeffries wore matched to box in San Francisco may be taken as an indication of what willhappen if such a contingency arises again. Nevada is through as a convincing ground for championship battles, and with conditions as described in other pugilistic centers of this country, it can roadlly bo seen that the United States will only witness such championships champion-ships as have whito men for principals. AH things oonsidorod, it might have been better if "Gunboat" Smith and Arthur Pelky had restrained their ambitions. am-bitions. If they had allowed their minds to carry them back to tho time surrounding the Jeffries-Johnson affair at Reno they would have recallod that boxing "became almost a dead letter. It took years to revive the sport and restore re-store interest in it. Even now the sport of tho gloves needs nursing, nnd another magpie world's championship would be a men-ace men-ace to it.