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Show JOHNSON FIGHTS WITH BROKEN ARM Paris, Dec. 20 Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, and "Battling Jim Johnson, another colored pugilist of Gaheston. Tex., met in a ten round contest here last night which ended in a draw. The spectators loudly protested pro-tested throughout that the men Were not fighting and demanded their money mon-ey bad; Many of them left the hall The organizers of the fight explained explain-ed the fiasco by assert in? that Jack1 Johnson's left arm was broken in the i third round There Is no confirmation of a report re-port that Jack Johnson had been stabbed and no evidence at the rinc; side of such an accident. During the first three rounds he was obviously j playing with h!s opponent. After that it was observed that he was using only his right hand. When the fight was over he complained com-plained that his arm had been injured. in-jured. Doctors who made an examination exam-ination certified to a slight fracture of the radius of the left arm. The general oi nlon la thnf hie arm was injured in a wrestling match early in 4 the week and that a blow tonight caused the fracture of tho bone. lack Johnson wasn't tbe first man . of his color to reach top notch pugl-. pugl-. lism by any means. The roll of great ijnegrt. fighters is a long one. Some I contend that the negro Is a better natural born boxer than the white man At any rate their bullet heads stand them in good stead when going over a long routp in the ring There was Peter Jackson, the wonderful won-derful Gebrge Dixon, Joe Walcott and ' the much feared Joe Gans, who died 1 recently, while Sam I.angford and Jce , Jeannette miht also be mentioned here. Three of the colored fighters have been world's champions. Peter Jackson started the history of hi?h-class negro pugilism He was in his prime when John L Sullivan ruled the heavyweight division. John L. al ways refused steadfastly to meet a man of another c-lor. leaving the contention con-tention of those who think Jackson the better man really outside the bounds of argument it may be men tioned, however, that James J. Corbet Cor-bet t was prettj lu i: to gain a draw after 11 rounds of terrific sledging with the negro, and this same Cbrbetl was later the man to take the terrible Sullivan s measure. Besides, Jnckson gave the great Jop I hoynskl s trouncing trounc-ing and Choynski never was to be derided. de-rided. It would be tho hardest thing in the world to decide which was the greatest fightur, George Dixon or Joe Gans, for they wen members of different dif-ferent classes. "Little Chocolate" was a wonderfully clever boy and In his remarkably ion- str'ns of battle i,. foucht everybody that could be stacked stack-ed against him. Perhaps the most notable of his achievements were In battles against the man who many-contend many-contend was the cleverest boxer thai ever put on a pair of gloves. "Young" Griffo. Twice they met in the ring the flfSt tin'o for a 25-round eneoun- Wfr ter. with the result a draw. Their Brj second meeting was over the ten- round route and so closely did they Kg battle that the referee was forced to call another draw. There was no one in the big fipld of feathSrwefghts in Dixon s time who ft had anything on him. and he held the title until Ben Jordan, a clever Brit W isher. came along and shaded him in 1 25 rounds at New Y'ork. But he cap- I MBt tured the title from Frank Erne, the Kj Buffalo hoy. in a one-round mill of the fig knockout order Gans hpld his hon- t- ors un il 1908 when Battling Nelson rW scored a knockout victory It can be said for Gans that he as "through" S when he lost the crown, for consump- Ipj tlon had taken a grip on him, and it i wasn't long after that that he passed. l |