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Show hornet's nest of public denounclation In England, which would have wiped out a lot of prestige that still is his despite the fact that Jack O'Brien gave him a six-round battle that ought to have placed him where he belongs. COLORED BOXERS IN PUBLIC EYE Johnson, Langford, M'Vey and Jean-nette Jean-nette Are Active. (By James J. Corbett.) The colored fighter has been in the public eye moro prominently the last two weeks than ever before In the history his-tory of the ring. Even the palmy days of Georgo Dixon and Peter Jackson Jack-son and the championship reign of Joe Cans aro nothing when compared to the limelight that has been shining on the gloasy pates of Jack Johnson ond Sam Langford. And then In Paris, whero the mitt sllngers have been reigning supreme for several months, the colored man I has It all his own way, with both Sam McVey and Joe Jeannette heroes in the public eye. In America the black man received a setback at the hands of Jack O'Brien but along comes Lancford and places himself on a pedestal in the eye of tho British public by mauling the tar out of the much overrated and inexperienced inex-perienced Ian Hague, whoever he might be. Langford today has a higher high-er position in the Englishman's mind than Johnson ever had, and yet I don't believe he deserves the honor that Is being heaped upon him because of his quick disposal oT Ian Hague. Hague Like Jack Munroe. Hague In many respects is a second sec-ond Jack Munroe and the American fight fans have never forgotten the way they boosted and worshipped the Butte miner because he had staid four rounds with Jeffries, or did some other oth-er puny little ring stunt that brought him notoriety as cheaply as Hague's defeat of "Gunner" Molr. Hague In every respect has more than Munroe had, but to put him up against Langford Lang-ford was like trying to put an untried novice against Jeffries. But the British public had a good opinion of Hague and thought that with his big advantago in inches and pounds he could surely stow away the husky Boston colored boy, or at least Rive him a tough battle. The old saying that "the bigger they are the harder they fall." applies to a fighter when he hasn't anything but bipness to boast of. Langford. aside from his flght with Hague. Is a touh fellow, and had Johnson not suddenly changed his mind about maklug the trip to Europe he might have stuck hlg head In a |
