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Show I THAT PRIZE FIGHT AT HAVANA. Jack Johnson once more Is in the Ppot light Between now and April 4 accounts of his movements, of his physical condition and his antics tend to displace the war news In Importance Im-portance Havana Is sending out thousands of words from the training camp of the colored champion. Yesterday spice U -was given to the news by a story of ' how Johnson's wife, entering a tonsorial shop, had been refused 6erv ice by Monica Valdez, a manicurist Mho declined to trim the finger nails of a white woman who had married a j negro A fight ensued and Mrs John- I son had her hair pulled and her face slapped hat a fine couple, this man John son and his paramour, to be holding the attention of the reading public! The Standard hopes the day will come when newspapers will agree not to j publish sporting news of the prize rmg in which the principals are men I of Johnson s baseness Here is a 1 fight being staged that the average sport believes to be a "frame up," in which a white man of no extraordl nary qualities, except size, is lending himself to a hippodrome affair in order or-der that the public may be made to 3 ield several thousand dollars to a colored man who is a disgrace to his j race and a stench in the nostrils of the public. |