Show I IS SENT TO PRISON Jack Blackburn a Welterweight Who Has Ha Whipped the Heavyweights July Black Blackburn Blackburn burn Saturday pleaded to mur murder der In the degree and was sen to lo 15 years In the penitentiary B By Ed WT W Smith Chicago July the lengthy Jack Blackburn or of Indianapolis was given tien 15 years In a Pennsylvania pen they slowed away the best welterweight boxer the world has ever seen Tho They had Jack dead to rights on the charge of f manslaughter In a family quarrel and his sentence was tho Blackburn was a Kentucky negro and at present time Is only 26 years ears I old He first discovered as a good boxer In although the greater greiner part of his fighting was done through the east where he was wasn wasa n a great fa 0 rite Think or of this fellow who could do pounds with ease having such names namos ns a Jim Barry Jack OBrien Tony Caponi George orge Gunther Sam Langford Jack Bonnor Bonner and George Cole and ancl n a dozen other giants In his record Think of this slender young I slip Blip of a fellow a to lo all I intents and and purposes but with ith the i courage born of pounds going j against the toughest of the whole uni universe verse and getting awa away with It When we wc read stories about how sharp matchmaking has favored I thin fighters and how shrewdness has been a big factor In helping boxers get along we e wonder what this Blackburn chap could have hao been thinking of when he made matches with hea and made them as much as batting an eye eyelIe lIe He told me once that thal had he been beena a white man lie he would never have I thought of such a thing but because lie he was black and could box quite a afew afew few as he put It the whites would have nothing to do with him and he was forced to take on such matches as lie ho could find And lIe he starve slane and that Is what would have happened for him had lie ho waited ho he said aid for the warriors or of orthe the ring to meet him Jack has only ono defeat in his hi rec record orI ord and that was n a shade decision ob obtained tamed over him by Joo Gans Gaas a nuin ot of his own color and In Gans Gaas own town back in March llarch In a 15 1 round battle baLUe that wag a marvel mancl or of viciousness and skill Soon after that Jack Jacl cooked his own goose as far as light and welter welterweights weights were concerned by cleanly bC Gardner the Lowell star In a battle In BOston After that Jack fairly throw threw himself at al all corners comers He took them on as fast as thoy would stand lip up to him and never neer once lid did ho ha meet a man mant t could trim him or eVen hold bold his with him Though Blackburn Is feet 10 Is decidedly slender and andIn In iii l 1008 DS made mado pounds mi fot George In iii anti lit the Bohemian fighter Into ribbons I In a go golIe golie lIe lint had little muscular development hut but he had the knack of hitting down downto to such Perfection that his jolts jolls car ned this force or of those administered b by a heavyweight Thus iy hy this sentence Is lost to one o of Ils greatest exponents But lie he was a black man and got few chances cli ances |