Show p u. u DEMANDS j FOR LOSING TO WILLARD 1 K don Paper Charges Negro Has Han Cabled to America for Money Promised Him to Lose Losee the e Fight I any ny any attacks on the genuineness the less Jess Jack Willard-Jack Johnson Johnsont it t for tor the worlds world's heavy weight have been made but worst worst Jolt appears In the tho latest 10 o e of ot John Bull which has just hed ched this countr country from England atlo Bottomley the editor of oC ther the cr r stands by any disclosure his hi makes Ho He charges that neon declared that the fight wasand waso was kc o and that Johnson now Is forced i limit It because he has not re reed reed reed re- re ed a guarantee that way was him him for Cor laying down to Wll- Wll Here IH la John Bulls story Ye We are art sorry we have to return to tor r old uld friend Jack Johnson of oC whom I hoped we wo had taken a n final fare fare- II 1 I after ns as wo we thought he hc had been deprived of oC the champlon- champlon title by Willard In April h last sl evidently c cannot go bO Ight and we now put before our tiers lets ers certain further facts acts which I I satisfy them that this man manold manold old aid nut not any longer lonser be tolerated In country Thc They refer reter to his rol re- re l fIght with Willard and while winS wing grave rn c doubt upon the genn gent gen- gen t n ll sll o of the contest prove ly thru that Johnson Is a man who rEI uld be he warned ot off from tho the ring are nut not entitled to sa say ay that there Blany B any compact cl with Willard It 4 Ile that thai so su tar far as ho he is Iii concerned affair w wao straight and above l ird d and that he fought In Igno- Igno Ice ce ice of ot tho the fior sordid bargain to which Ison pleads guilty but In view at c we arc aie about to disclose le te explanation from him would win appear ar to be desirable and need neld scarcely say that our col colue col- col a ue are open t to him for l' l that purpose We are arc not aware of ot tho date upon Ich leh John Johnson on reached I England after l fight but he could not have been o 0 long before belore he was bus busy formu- formu IOK claims for tor havin having agreed to tor r f down to Willard whom he de- de from the tho boxing point of ot w aa as merely a Joke and offers tight rIght for tor a side bet het of or twenty five presumably usand presumably dollars the dollars the iner to take all the purse mone money ae sae e admissions admIssion and challen challenges eR are tamed In certain cables s sent to tow tow w 5 York early arl in June We e do not obvious reasons reason a at present dislo dis- dis 10 lo the name of or the person to whom p y y II were ad addressed especially In y w of or the fact tact that hp he I having been heen party to any such euch dishonest dis dis- honest honet arrangement as that suggested although of or course Johnson cannot cannot can ean- not nol escape from his self confessed d fraud The first cable was dispatched from rom London on June 9 and this I Is how It reads You signed contract to pa pay me mc fifty thousand dollars to 11 lay down to I Willard which I did cUtt You never nc kept your our promise I did Now you ou must pay according to contract Litigate all you ou like I J will put m my ea case e be before ho- ho fore tore any court and press In the world JACK JOHNSON JOHNSO We Ve Wedo do not know the exact terms of ot the reply which John received but It Is 18 obvious from tram his next message message mes mea sage a E that It was not of or a satisfactory satisfactory actor ac- ac tor tory character and that his demand was characterized by a somewhat ugly name For on Juno June 11 we find hl him wiring again l proposition I Want avant ant payment first mane money tak taken n. n Willard Villard as 1111 fighter joke If you OU confidence confidence confidence con con- his ability to beat me wilt will bet het twenty five thousand Winner take all and purse money JOHNSON Now as 6 we have so often otten said we WC have no desire to pursue unduly this dusky gentleman but hut we do call c ll upon him to clear himself If It he ho can of this latest scandal or scandal or to clear out When hen we wo exposed him before he first challenged us to come and fight tight him which him which Is not In fir our line then he offered to stake against a similar sum Bum from tram us If we wo could prove the genuineness of oC tho the documents which we reproduced To this wo we replied to the effect that we would l lod lodge odge e 1 2000 against his s and forfeit It ft if iC we failed tailed to substantiate our our- charges s. s But this did not suit sull Jack So 80 next he 1 a writ for tor libel against us us subsequently us-subsequently allowing allowIng allow allow- ing the action to drop It Il will be remembered that we c charged him with having endeavored ored to square the fight tight In Parin with Moran and that we ue reproduced a document signed ned by him and by W which a ho ie agreed to allow Moran a certain percentage of ot the gate fiats mone money provided provided provided pro pro- vided he laid down don within eight rounds The scheme however did not work Johnson had got hold of at r rho the tho ho wrong rasa man in Dan l i Morans Moran's manager whose whose- instructions e to 0 his boy boH were to go in n and d win win win- w with ith the tho result that ho went through I the twenty ro rounds much to the surprise sur Bur I prise of or Jack Jacl who was constantly 1 calling galling on him to give glue InAs inAs in I I As we sec have said we have no color r prejudice We VEl do not target forget that i prince of ot the ring the ring the acme of ot all a J sportsman black hll or white should be he J d. d a r i e I I 1 I I r i J J Peter Jackson and if it Johnson had only taken Peter as a model of whet what real champion should b be w t e would have haie forgiven him much and held out the glad hand to him but he lie really Is Impossible impossible and and he ho must go goVe We Ve therefore now call upon over every recognized boxing club and authority in n the world to rid tho the grand r nd old sport spoil of or this menace to its good name Allour All Allour Allour our proofs are areat their disposal BoxIng Boxing Box- Box Ing Ins Is the white mans man's sport Let us keep It clean So Ion long I aa as the game was played straight we put up with the taunt of oC having no white champion cham cham- champion pion and we treel freely acknowledged the negros negro's skill If It he lac has hns lost the title It t Is 16 1 his own fault fRuIt but never again must he hp be allowed to seek It back 1 Jack ack Johnson Is finished |