| Show GOTCH TO FIGHT JACK JOHNSON NEVER report that champion wrestler will turn pug list and become the white mans hope Is only an advertising scheme trouble again threatened in the national league by KNOCKOUT do you remember reading in this pa per along about the time the jeffries Jeff rles johnson match wa wao made that there was a plan to have frank gotch the world a champion wrestler turn pu gillat and feht jack johnson if the big boilermaker failed to wina well it was printed nether you fead ead it or not and now the scheme has been spring let me say right at the start off that frank atch never will b seen in the ring with jack johnson gotch Is too smart intact in tact hes he s about the smartest athlete in the co intro if not the world gotch Is strong gotch is game and as a wres tier has no peer but tt tl ere a s all the dif terence in the world betm between een wres aling and fighting and a different set of muscles entirely Is developed in the tv efto 0 games jim tim corbett according to report was going to give several months of hia his valuable time to teaching gotch the fine points of th tha fight ng game to make of the wrestler wrestle the hite man s hope a position Jen rifca held until july suly 4 corbett is in the all show 0 w b bus I 1 nets nebs gotch has been on the at stage and probably will be again next win ter that a the ans ver dear reader both know the i alue of getting their names aames in print in connection with such a story no frank gotch never will light johnson and it if he does he a too smart to have any oid has beens teaching him the itsines bi bt siness sines it would be gotch for tommy pian or billy delaney corbett houlda t do As I 1 predicted last tommy ra ran an bas has come out with the declara tion that he intends to prime his pro tege legs coi cori 0 kelly to tight light johnson foxy tommy aa a he can make 0 kelly into a scrapper in a year and will then challenge johnson tor for the championship about a I 1 the harp las now is 14 size but be he 11 know how to fight when ryan gets through with him they all do but will he be able to whip bip Johnon 9 its it s a safe guess the odds would be five to one on john son should the pair be matched at the end of a year fighters ire not made that quickly they must have plenty 0 of t hard I 1 nocks ind they don t get them in a gymn gymnasium aluni it 1 ia probable that at the end of a yer year thedell ell be no place in the united states where a chimi f can be pulled off anyway tt a remarkable how th s agitation against the showing ot of the moving pla pictures ct u re of the peno battle has bas grown maj J dick sylvester supera of polive in washington started it the dai after the battle when because of a riot between blacks and whites in the national capital he saia sala he would t tot ot permit the pictures to be shown because of the anti negro feeling en gendered there other cities picked it up and the movement grew into such proportions that the men who bought the right to shonn the pictures and exhibit them grew alarmed and decided not to show them just yet it Is understood that jeffries received 66 johnson 50 50 and rickard 50 or 60 for their share in the pictures which in addition to the expense of taking and staging them probably n bant an out lay of no won ler the promoters were alarmed bv by the move ment started in washington they ex acted d to clean up a million dollars maar big cities do clo ed against them they 11 do well to get their money back which means the prizy fight game in this country is on its last legs the johnson I 1 ittle quarrel and counter charges of faking be bc tween them has added another blow and it its s safe to bet that bohnson wl wi I 1 have to go to england or australia if it he wants to fight again about the line fine the baseball season closes you ou 11 hear more talk about troubles in the national league from all accounts the official lile of thomas J lynch the president of the organ is by no means a bed of ross there s dissatisfy action among the magnates and it Is probable that tha mr lynch will not be re elected without a feht the faction thai that wanted to make john M ward president last winter 1 Is said to be still in favor of putting him at the head of the league mr lynch didn dian t add to his popular ity when he stopped the newspaper ers taking pictures of the players while the game Is going on |
