Show COLOR LINE REAL UL IL IN I Fight Promoters Say Jeffries and Johnson Cant Can't Battle in Dixie ED CASEY TRIES THE RING Abe Attell and Jem Driscoll Trying to Arrange Match r DY BY JEFF THOMPSON New Now York Jan SO A A recent new dispatch atch sla stated ted that Savannah Ga Go Gain In Intended intended In- In tended to put In u u. bid for the tho proposed Johnson Johnson-Jeffries les bout If It the Savannah fight promoters have any such liuch idea they had just as well veil dismiss It if sr I know anything of ot tho the temper of ot the tho Georgia people and 1 think I do When DIxon was in his hits prime ho fought a battlo with a 0 white boy buy In New Orleans The re result uIt of ot that fight on the temper of the time negm negroes oes was such that tho the mandate went forth that no prize fights between black and white whilo should be bo held in Louisiana and that dictum goes Goos throughout tho the South The Tho color line is it a very real and tangible thing In Georgia and if It the Savannah fight tight promoters go JO against it It its good bye to the tho fight game In Savannah Sa J If the Savannah authorities w wore re to give gl a permit for Cor Johnson to fight a white mau in that city efty which IN It In- In In Inconceivable conceivable able its it's dollars to doughnuts that Governor Smith or 01 Brown whichever whichever which which- ever happens to be In office at ut the tho time would vote veto it and If necessary back bauk his veto with troops It has not b been en so many years ago that Governor Northen of ot Georgia Pont ont thu the entire military force of ot the tho state stale to the line lino in order to repel an Invasion of ot sports who were IntendIng intending intend- intend In Ing to pull pun off the tho Corbett bout bouton on Georgia soil 2011 It may be bo possible that Jeffries and Johnson may meet in the ring but It t twill will not bo be in Georgia Big JJ Ed Casey Cuey tho time Villa Nova Novo college college college col col- lege football player made mado his initial bow how as H R professional pugilist recently In Philadelphia With nothing to offer of offer ot- ot fer but his hits massive build and his hla un- un gameness s ho hu was sent Hont In against t one of ot the tho best beat men anen of ot time tho time Al Kubiak tho young giant from Cram Michigan Kubiak is hi a fairly Rood good hitter hittel very aggressive und mind as full tull of ot confidence as an nn egg ess Is la full fun of ot moat meat It 11 was Wall the tho combination of ot tho time three thieo qualities It ft experience aggressiveness and confidence that brought about the un undoing doing of Casey Had HatI tho the latter been started t against u u. than man oh tl tho the order of or himself or oven ono one a bit susceptible to a punch Casey would woul 1 have his bin friends away shouting his pr praises JIt J AM As AMit Ast it t was wall they filed riled out of or tho club with expressions of or sympathy for tho the way their companion and nd friend flond hud had boon been led to tho the slaughter slaughter for for slaughter it was was after after the tho second round This Tills man Ku Kubiak luk by the way will bear watching Young Otto may Inay ponder tho Immortal Im lm- mortal words of or Scotland's treet songster songster song song- ster stor Bobby Burns no relation of Tom Tout Tommy Tommy my who remarked Tho best laid plans of mice mice- and nd lUauI moo lUau I Gang aft art I I Just before his meeting with Leach I ach Cross hu lie declared I 1 I I inn going tu to knock Jr Cross out out- 1 I will i maho him quit in u u. few I IF I If f niu am going after him at the beginning and amid he be will bo lie soon Hoon on the tho floor After Cross J I am nun going to beat boat McFarland 1 then I will take on Welsh I and unI finally Nelson When th they mot Cross knocked Otto out cleanly and antI decisive decisively In lu ti the tho fifth round all of ot which goes to prove provo that you hOU cant can't almost always sometimes t tell lL Abe Abc Attell the tho featherweight cham chan champion pion plou ut of ot America will box Join Jem Driscoll the e English star at 1 4 pounds ringside ringside ring ring- side if It Jem Join declines the weight there will wm be no match This Is the time ultimatum ultimatum ultimatum ulti ulti- Issues Driscoll coll claims to bo be the time featherweight featherweight feather feather- weight champion of ot Great Britain Attell At At- AtI I tell toll said If Ir ho is all right but b Id t thim h him prove that he is a n. feather b by Ing some Home sort of weight I 1 can call do i 11 1 a k I pounds cas easily II and weighed only a few vv ounces over o that when whon I got on un th iii scales BenJes at 01 Goldfield lust last week Y t I l Iam lam am defending my title at 01 2 1 b band and giving everybody a a. shot at li 11 Here liere is a man calling f u a t featherweight and yet expects t to coal OJ n in at 01 ou 18 pounds I am not fInS fInS' g g.- g. Ing InS to give away n that weight allY mor when my title is concerned 1 I never nerr g s tany t r rany any ony credIt for giving awn awa away n tight i anybody They laughed at rm nu n wl wI li Welsh boated bested me rne Hu lie should hum lm c c- cd d d. J so 80 because he had over 12 II me Another English fighter bus mius laam i ion t ton on our shores und and ho he's hes s a 11 Driscoll T F T latest importation is a Welshman II II mik h his hils more famous namesake namesake- ll II 11 vu mr IJ christened ned Patrick but he lr 1 I known knout di i I over o England as Boyo oyo Joni H Hand land l and Bovo Boyo oyO Driscoll arc aio both natu j of ot Cardiff Wales alos and went to IJ s. s iu i together r. r Boyo fights at llo Uti pound ands In England he ho is la called a 1 J rl 11 ash t h t wel weight ht but he be could make mm eight Ig hl i some of ot the lads who are uio posing pu J as b bantams in this country Driscoll has Joined Fill Gilly ly m r string of ol scrappers and unu tin the ItI Wen of ot the club Is a ii ling j i-j gamble VII omi hull bl hi in Ill |