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Show L ROCAP CALLS EGRO'S PLEA WHINE BY WILLIAM H. ROCAP. niversal Service. :LADKLPHIA, March 14. Jack on, who reveled tor more than six in tliti success which follows and Is a world's heavyweight champion, dded one oioro offense to the crimes s.s committed. lie has insulted the . gence of every newspaper critic was at. the ringside in Havana on :", i;H5. In a signed interview, perhaps in the feeble brain of his ; atrent, he confesses that his bout Jess Willard on that date in de- of the title was a fake fid that he , ;o "lay down' in the tenth round. smartest ring critics in the vrld, swho know boxing by heart, men trained eyes who can teil the mo--. a blow is "'pulled" and who could ; a crooked round before it was half were at the ringside. Had one of men even suspected that either - was not trying his best, he would so cabled Ins paper or the press : at ion from which he was assigned. did not, ne was not fit to ever draw . ' from any reputable newspaper a dav therafter. ;i Willard beat Jack Johnson fairly squarely. All the scribes present, .he writer was among the number, 3 that Willard had outboxed, out-' out-' t and outpunched the negro in a : -ity of the twenty-six rounds fought. on went clown because nature . no longer respond. He was out- - d in youth, strength, science and :.- :ion, . jr the eleventh round to the finish " on was a beaten man. It became '-istion of how long he would last, nly chance was to catch Willard off . , which he never did. It was appar- j the writer that Johnson's effort to all defeat was a game one and he "limply beaten by a better man. |