Show I I DIfFERENCE IN INI I SIZE OF I II I I By Br w V W r I Sm San Francisco Oct ity in size between Johnson and ICet I eke hel is IE causing Instances or of unequal In the last to be recalled I ISome I Some o of those who are arc discussing i I things along these lines hark back baek to Torn Tom Sayers the thc champion anti I IJohn John C the Benicia boy who Were Wele itS as a pall pair at as ever contested the championship of the world There has hui boon some queer pairing I when worlds championships ps were not Hol involved Hero Here In San Francisco about 20 O years ago wo we hi big Joe I hue a man who stood six foot fool four and fm far O over I JO IO pounds In Inaction inaction action with Frank Glove of Chicago whose height was WiS barel barely live foot Cot eIght and who scaled around Hill Jut In ChIcago once the tho spectators wit cl a strange match when little Joe oe Wolcott Volcott tackled hea heavy weight Ired Fied Ru Russell sell of Seattle who towered neal cucar h two feet above aboe him Dempsey Smaller Th Than n Reverting to championships Jack Dempsey was handicapped when ho mN int Bob Dob In New Orleana lint bitt on only I In l Dempsey cd five Iho feet ight and ns the he feet Ceel and th incites Inches The Tho m lI boxed for Cor the lice mid ht title tIlle and the limit In those years ears I as 15 pounds who weighed Ui lund had about four pounds in this respect When Jim Jini and Fitzsimmons met lUot at Carson It was a case of a champion and a middle middleweight weight trying conclusions At that thal Corbell whose height was six i fent one was only an Inch and ii a l I taller than Corbett who weighed c about lS pounds was rob bl 20 O poun pounds s heavier than his opponent nent Willm hen Tommy Burns and Jack John Johnson son boxed for the worlds champion championship ship at Bay Bar S Sydney Burns had great odds to contend with Tommy stood lood live feet Ceet seven Inches ns Its against Johnson oll six feet feel and a quarter of an inch acid aud weighed 1 to Johnson Johnsons Towered Over Sharkey The greatest contrast In bulk and stature cn in u a world champion championship ship fight was vai when Jim and Toni foOl were the tho principals The I content tool took place at Conoy Island s stood six feet ono one and a half to lo live feet eight and a half Jeffries had therefore Ire Inches lee Ice leewar way war In height As near as could lIo ho judged weighed pounds and Sharkey l 6 so that Jeffries had bad badan hadan an advantage of 50 pounds In weight Is It an any wonder the sailors ribs wore fractured It was Ls au an uneven match so far Car faras itS as th meus physical I I wore It was the hardest light for the championship probably that ever evor took It has often been said that the main differ difference once ence between and Jeffries W was S the difference In size Ketchel Taller Than Comparing the af affair affair fair with the contest the principals cIo do not seem to be so badly matched Johnson stands six f feet Bt and a quarto of an Inch Ketch ci 1 feet nine nIno and and three quarters or two and a 8 half Inches less Johnson declares he will weigh not more titan thun pounds when he enters the ring Willus Britt says sars Ketchel vili scale not less than so 50 that on paper It does docs not nol seem such a terribly one sided contest The writer will be bound however that when the negro and the white man stand erect In the ring the contrast will be such Buell as to evoke continent comment |