Show I I HOW 11 JOHN L. L GOT OUT OF A FIGHT WITH BIG NEGRO 4 NEW XE w YORK Jan Tan lohn L. L Sullivan Sui ducked a match malch with Peter Jackson sai said Sam Sani Fitzhu Fitzhugh 1 h yester yester- day ay This is the tho truth about Sullivan and md J Jackson I was wa mana managing in Peter haVin having brought him over o from Australia The Theold Theold old California club then the star club of the tho country wanted to get tet the great reat Boston Doston boy bor to meet Jackson who wagin was wag in iii San Francisco at that time Sullivan demanded as his hit bit Tho The management man mau- jumped at the offer and when Sully found that they were tro so willing ho he made it and n again in the they came canto through Then Sullivan who ho was never a piker at at- an any timo time in in his career said make it They rhe mi might ht just as well WU have made it lO OOOO because John I L. L would have 11 raised it another for h hA had no intention intention in in- in the world of meeting the darky Not so 60 with young Jim Corbett Jim was wall a dapper ba bank k clerk and boxing instructor instructor in- in in of the select Olympic club out ont there and ho listened to the ur urgings of his friends when tle they suggested a tilt between him himself Self and Jackson Corbetts Corbett's a father a proud old oM Irishman was up in arms in a moment when ho be heard hear that his boy was going goin into the tho ring with a I negro Corbett t with all hi his hie boyish enthusiasm took tho the old man titan i into to a 11 corner r and said Dad this black fellow i is the tho greatest man in t tho be world T r want to beat that man titan I Ive I've c got to shove him asi aside e and Im I'm going to do it whether you liko it or not If you ou try to prevent mo mc from meeting him here in San Francisco Franciaco Ill I'll take tako him ou on a barge barRe up tho the river I The The old man tuna never Dever gave in in and even on the tho ni night ht of the great eat battle he tried to have tho the police interfere Corbett jumped into fame fanie in a ni night ht A Amero Amore Amore more mero bo boy boj ho stood off oft the unrivaled Peter Jackson for sixty one brilliant roun rounds They stopped it in that round b it became evident that there wouldn ft t he be a winner so evenly c were wore they matched That light brought Jim Tim i i t Corbett finally into line lino for tho the fight I I with Sullivan an in n which he won the tho I Sullivan once was matched to ll light fight another nc negro ro lIe He was is-as stripped for ac ae- ac- ac I I tion in tho the r ring D at nt Boston and over in iii tho the other corner stood Geor George e God Godfrey i iThe The police jumped in aud and called a halt before tho thio men bad a chance to too the mark Strange isn't it that I r should have havo been manager cr for tho tito two i greatest nc negro ro boxers tho the world ever know Peter knew Peter Jackson and Jack Tack Johnson Johnson John John- son 1 Could Gould Peter have ha beaten Johnson John John- Johnson son son J Ive I've o often thou thought ht of t that at be be- fore You see Peter had one Ino style stylo of i fi fighting straight as 39 a t whip in notion action and the most graceful soft sott gliding boxer that ever cr stepped into 11 It ring He moved movell about with all nil tho cl cunning of ofa a n black panther Ho lie u used ld a straight ht left that WJ was a revelation to the Americans Airmen Ameri I cans of that time I r do O believe that he i revolutionized ro boxing in this country with the wonderful effectiveness of that lightning heart breaking black arm I Those fellows took things in iu a more matter fact vay I You see sec ec Jack Johnson is all that I tho the up-to-dato up tJ fighting machine is and ami more A fight light between these two black j fellows would have been a n truly wonderful won won- I affair Johnson with hi his great j I assortment of punches would h havo worried worneLl wor- wor I neLl ried the tho dashing Peter not n n a little I find fina it hard to say gay who would have havo won I but hut 1 honestly do O think that Johnson's Johnsons s 's later day stylo would woud have boa beaten ten j Jacksons Jackon What a pH pity that the they never nC could coul have havo met |