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Show Johnson's Great Record in the Prize Ring 1 Since James J. Jeffries retired and Tommy Burns claimed the championship, champion-ship, Johnson has boon trying to get the Canadian bov to meet him. and he has trailed him throughou the United States and even to England in quest of a match, it was not until Mcintosh, the promoter of this fight, and -who also acted as referee, offered a purse j of $35,000 for a battle at Rus-hcutters Day, a suburb of Sydney, that Burns consented to meet Johnson. Then he stipulated how the money should he split up. the size of the ring and all the conditions surrounding the fight. Johnson immediately accepted and sailed from London for Australia Aus-tralia to begin training. Johnson, during his ring career, has fought f.4 battles, and 22 of his opponents op-ponents have gone down to defeat by tho knockout route. Prominent among thrive whn have been put to sleep by the big black are Jack Jeffries, a brother broth-er of tho former heavyweight champion, cham-pion, who was knocked out by Johnson at Lr.s Angeles in 1002 in live rounds, and Bob Fitzsimmons, who, in Philadelphia Philadel-phia in 1907 was unable to withstand Johnson's shifty work more than two rounds. He has lost but two fights, one a 20 round decision to Marvin Hart pnd the other on a foul to Joe Jean-tcttc. Jean-tcttc. . Not since the days -of James J. Cor-bett Cor-bett has tlje prize ring seen so perfect a boxer as Johnson. Ing and lithe, he Is as graceful a a dancing master r.nd as true as an arrow in placing- his blows. Especially deft is he with his left, and few boxers, unless they have great skill, are able to keep the bis black man from beating their faces to tatters. In courage Burns was a bull dog always; al-ways; Johnson. It was said by some, had a "yellow streak." In nono of his many battles, however, has it been proved that Johnson would not take .1 good beating. 'Neither Burns nor Johnson, John-son, however, has been considered a man of the stamp of Jeffries, Sullivan or Corbett in the fighting game. Well we're satisfied now. we have read of the downfall bf another champion, cham-pion, but that satisfaction 'is 'going to be short lived, for this very same thing is what we are going to be looking forward for-ward to happen to the new. champion as soon as Jack Johnson lands in this country. Let's be fair with ourselves and admit ad-mit that .what wo want is the chance to sec champions beaten.-- It has been so ever since there was such a thing as a fighting man and it will be so until un-til such time as the game of combat with padded gloves between humans has been done away with. What a hopeless task it is to look over the present list of ellglbles and pick out a man who has a chanco to do the trick to this olever fighting man, Jack Johnson. However, Jack, for. the I present, at least, you are alone and now worlds for you to conquer,. are lnichty scarce. In fact, it is the opinion" opin-ion" of the majority that we will have to discover new material beforo we can hope for your downfall. |