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Show French Are Crazy Over Boxing Game Jess Says He Dislikes to See Women at a Boxing Match; the Arena Is No Place for Her; Champ Is Glad His Fight Was Not Held in Pans on This Account. By JESS WILLAED (Copvrgh lib 4 He A ghta eserved ) IF IT hadn t been for the war don t tb nk there s a loubt that my f ght w th Johnson woull ha e been held n Par s nstead of Ha ana The F ench people were cras o er box ng and he law let them pull off f n sh f ghts r ght in Par 8 For fo r or f e ears Engl sh and Amer can Bee ond a e s ai been pick ng up eas mone o e there and a champ onsh p batt e wo 1 1 ha e set the Fe ch es w Id When Tom Jones started off to Ene land to see Jack Johnson about a match he sa d to n e Jac w 11 want the bout for Par s as sure as ou re born T d ke t n Amer ca I sa 1 but if he wants Par s let h m have t Even before this we had ta ked about a tr p to Pa s hen Jones was man aging B Uy Papke the two of them had fone o er and B ly cleaned up a b g waa j wh pping Georges Carpentier n eighteen rounds Swells Like It They re sure nutty over the game, Tom told me The swells pack the place and the women flock n as well as the men On the n ght that B 11 wh pped Carpent er the f rst two rows ' were f lied bv women n e en ng gowns and the wa they howled for blood was something r erce Wlien we got there Sam Mc ey was the idol of Paris He had been I ght ng there for four vears and, outs de of a defeat by Joe Jeanette Sam was steadr winner Joe knocked him out in the forty ninth round of a finish f ght " Say but t was soft money The fellows he met were third raters 1 ke Jerry Sm th Harry Shear ng Sergeant Sunshine Peter R ce and even poor old Joe Grimm fighters that couldn t get on in a preliminary over here but Par s pays b g money to see them They dont want science Tom said 'They want blood, espec ally the women And it s the knockout they 1 ke best When AlcVey knocked out Shearing a big English dub, they dragged Shearing to h s feet to be pho togranhed with McVey The pictures sold like hot cakes Carpent er is the best fighter they ve got And let me tell you, the bov b some f ghter Papke whipped him bv infighting The Frenchman didn t seem to know anything about protecting himself when he got in close and B lly tore him to pieces. Fortune Beckons. This Carpentier Tom said is a heavyweight now If we can get a match with him oar fortune s made The French people think that he s the best man in the world In a wav I m glad mv fight with Johnson didn t take place in Paris It made me sick to hear about women fill ing the front rows at a prizefight I don t like it and I don t think it ought to be allowed It doesn t hurt a man to see a good rousing battle It keeps hie own fight ing instinct alive and it also teaches him the value of health and strength A fast bout makes a man a blood run Su cker and keeps the color of it red Int it s different with a woman Fight ing isn t an instinct with her like it is with a man It doeen t come natural to her And so she gets nothing oat of it but the sight of half naked men smeared over with blood It s bound to coarsen her And at that I don t say that i s any worse for a woman to see a prizefignt than to bet on a horse race The awfullest sights I ve ever seen hae been at rare tracks where half crazy women were betting money they couldn t afford to lose Scrapbook Scanned Tom Jones keeps a scrapbook in which he s sot an account of about even pr ze fight that eor occurred I looked thro gh it to read up about the fight between Papke an 1 arpont er Tust as he sa d the papers all ga e accounts of the women at the r ngside And I saw a clipp ng there that told aho t the f ght n Paris between 8am I angford an T Joe leancttr It was hel I spits out uss words and ins Its eerj n an open a r park an I hundreds of women n low t dressea saw the f ght I angfor I knocked leanette lown three t mes n the th teentb r un I nn I the women umped u tleir chars and elled I ke Tnd an The bout we t twent ro n Is an 1 when I angford got the dec s on the women she 1 p to shake his hnn 1 It m st ha e been ft r rett n ght for them to watch that battl retween those two n kes n Hp m nd In a n on an s i as mu 1 a He 1 v.o hop as an dlen nl n a man Tha e eason wh I an fo q a i ft ate o strong I va t won en to 1 ave the ote because t w 1 g o then someth ng sef 1 to do and th 1 a o t Thousands of won en 1 e n apartn ent houses nowalajs E erj husban 1 wt n oney wants to get a servant so h s wife can 1 pep o t of the 1 tche Ex cept v. e 1 Id en are o ng t e don t take al of a w fe s t e by anj means Many Jobs Gone In a h ndrel wa-vs e e taken o nan ob from her She sed to 1 a e to ea e her cloth n ake her b ei 1 her soap and her preser es b t now t s cheaper to bu those th ngs p en f she had a real liouse to vo k n aDd dot a flat She s got far more die t me now than a nan That s vhy I want to see he get busj v th the vote It s much more he ob to look after school laws health laws p re too 1 laws clean streets pure water and playgrounds than t s a man s And the can talk all the please about the ballot hurt ng wo nan Jbut I d rather see mv w fe w p ng out sa loons and d sorderh houses than to have her loafing around tango jo nts and mo ng p cture shows I J rather have her help to get protection for wo k ng women and children than ha b her d nk ng highballs in cafes 1 ke I see so man women doing We 1 ved n Kansas where women voted and we 1 e now n aliforn a, where women ote anl whene er I hear a New lorker talking about how the vote ru ns homes I always feel 1 ke call ng h m a 1 ar and a fool Speech' Speech' I got a letter from the equal suf rage people some time ago asking if I wouldn t make some speeches for them in New York Vew Jersey. Vassa chnsetts and Pennsylvania They vote on the question thisvfall in those fo r states Lord knows I wish I could- But speech mak ng s harder for me than fighting I showed at Hammerstein s when I got back from Havana, and I don t suppose I 11 ever be as sick again I couldn t get my upper lip loose from mv teeth But I told them the truth I just said that I thanked them for their kind invitation but that when it came to making speeches I simply wain t there That s what I wrote to the equal suffrage ladiee and I also told them 1 hoped they would win KnA it they do win, you re going to see things happen When I waa in New ork I atig to see little kids arrested for playing in the streets And yet the street waa the only place thev had to ptav And 1 saw whole families, men women and children and even little babies living eating and sleeping in one room in some of those tenements When women vote thev don t stand for ch Id labor and jail for kids. Thev go through a town just 1 ke a good woman goes through a house w th a broom and when she gate through everyth ng nicer and cleaner Sissj" rears I suppose a lot of men will iote against equal suffrage hecai ae thev don t want to he called on 1 suppose that fear has ma l more drunkards an 1 more blarkgnar Is than any other one thing If a bov doesn t want to I ink h eraart aleck friends rail him a v So in order to keep from bring a s M he has got to hnng aro u 1 saloons burn off the I n ng of h s stomach and become n bum If a box dnrsn t swra and run around w th the gans he a ss He sn t a regular fellow unless he g rl who doesn t ba pen to have a n an w th her Hea rn known I want i In to be strong an I man I I 1 I ke r r kid n the I n ted States to learn I ot og and I wo Idn t m n I how mu h they fo ght f thr lit with the r fists and shook hands afterwar I But f m lo has got tn Ir nk ao I smoke and swear nud I patr n order to be nan v I m w If g t hate him run the r sk of bel g allr 1 s ssv I don h nk an hoi w II n that I am a ss and vet I e gone through f n I kr t p ett lea ol mo tl nn I Ira of h k If I ha In t l Awn f nn wh k nu garet rs I p I wo Idn t I p hampio of thp w II tola And when I sa I an fo rn nl f fragp ma hp on p nip w tl nk that it sn t su h a siss p. af or all Tomorrow W I ar I v c nl n t I a Havate an I I |