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Show JACK JOHNSON BOXED SIX TAME ROUNDS Heavyweight Gave an Exhibition Wednesday Wed-nesday in Vancouver. Just to be a good fellow and please the colored sports of Seattle and Vancouver Van-couver who gave him such a noisy reception re-ception upon his retum from Australia, Austra-lia, Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion cham-pion of the wr.rld, appeared before the Vancouver Athletic club Wednesday night in a sparring exhibition. George Paris, the colored bov h was a well-known sprinter in Seattle several years ago, persuaded Jack to take part in tho show. It was first announced that Johnson would box with Denver Ed Martin, but at the last minute Victor McLaglen, of Tacema. was substituted Foxy Jack did not care to go on with a man as clever as Martin even lu a friendly I sotto, ' for he would appear to much better advantage with a slow mover I like Mrlike McLaglen, who knows little lit-tle nr nothing about the boxing game. In the first round, while coming out ot a clinch, Jack slipped a left Jolt to McLaglen's midsection. McLagden was smiling when the blow landed and he sank to his knees with the smilo frozen on his face. After that Johnson John-son had to work hard to keep from hurling the big Tacoma man, who has the physique to win the championship of the world. , Johnson looked a bit fat around tho stomach, but he went through the six rounds without sitting down between roun.is. ur counie icLiagien couia not make him extend himself. After the entertainment Johnson was given a banquet by the colored ' sports, at which aboutlOO men' with' full grown appetites sat down. Johnson thinks the fight pictures have been doctored. He is quoted as saying that the pictures do not show him knocking Burns off his feet in tho first round. As that was the winning punch of the battle it was poor business busi-ness to leave that out; If Jack is right in his contention, the films have been changed. Had Burns landed that punch In the first round Instead of Johnson, he would probably have won the fight. But. Buras . walked right into a right-hand right-hand upporcut that lifted him off hl3 feet, and he never recovered from it. Jack also says that the fifth- round. In which Burns made a decent showing, show-ing, has been duplicated and substituted substitut-ed for the ninth, round. In which he had all tho better of the milling. From Australian newspapers It can be read that Burns was the favorite during the fight and after he was licked, but If the films have been doctored to f.how him to advantage they are valueless. |