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Show JSiM 111 TO ' lEHMGFO! Detroit, Aug. CO. Unless Jack Jnhnson experience!? a chune of heail in the luture. Sam Langiord and his manager, .foe Woodman, nMgbt Just as will cease the.r clatter clat-ter and effoits to inveigle the ne;ro champion Into a match lor the heavyweight heavy-weight title. To a party of friends cslerday afternoon the conq.ieror of James J. Jeffries -xplalncd his reasons reas-ons for refusiiiR to meet the llosion "Tar Ilaby." Fear does not prompt Johnson to evade the challenge of Landlord, There Is no doubt exlrtlng In the mind of tho hup,? black that he Is the master of Largford at nuy stylu of milling If that was tho case, Johnson would use different methods of dealing with AYoodman's protepe. Jack's refusal to meet the persistent persist-ent Langford Is for financial reasons reas-ons only. Like every champion, Johnson 13 ia the game for all that he can get out of It and Is perfectly willing to meet anybody an 1 ever) body the public pub-lic selects for blm, providing, however, how-ever, that the cha'lcng'ng party Is of the caliber to draw a good gate, Johnson says that Langford is not a good gate card and for that reason rea-son absolutely refuses to listen ,to his plea for a meeting. "if Langford can draw well in a match with me why don't soro? pro motors who are always on tho look-cut look-cut for a good attraction offer a purse for Saru and myself? So far there harn't been a dollar offered by sn of them, and from the present outlook none will. It's a plain case of free advertising on Langfords part, but at the present rate it is not eoing to get blm anything. "If Langford wanted to meet me as badly ns he would like to make it appear, ap-pear, why didn't be cover the check for $20,000 which I posted the Inst time I was la New York? I was there two weeks and Woodman also was In the city at the same time, but tho money remained uncovered. To tell the truth. I dm't believe that Woodman had a nickel Believes Lanrjford Bluffing. "Langford knows he hasn't a chance in the world to defeat me, knows it as well as he knows his own name, yet he is continually yelling for a meeting. If be figures to get the loser's los-er's end, the idea on bis part is a good one. Langford realiies that the email end of a purao for a battlo with roe would be a tidy sum, and It Is that more than his bel ef in his ability abil-ity lo beat nie and win the championship cham-pionship that he is after." When asked what ho thought of the Doston man's "crawling" out of his match with Kaufman at Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Johnson paid he believed that Sam was alraid of a I cklng at tho bands cf the Callfornlan, whom Johnson John-son picks as the b?tt heavyweight In the countrv next to himself. "I got it straight." snl 1 Johneon. " that Sam wa-n't In very Kod condition that night and look the eas'est and best way out of It by demanding something be knew the promoters woulj not listen to." Jack had sonieth'ng to say about the men who now aro assorting that Jeffries Is possel of a saffron streak in his make-up. and n the unprejudiced un-prejudiced mind bis words should carry car-ry some we'gbt. Johnson declares that it wasn't courage that was lacking lack-ing in Jeffries, but ability. From the footlights the champion said that Jeffries bad fought a eWn, came battle, but was defeated by a younger young-er and stronger man. |
