Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-09 | Page 1 | Johnson's Good Side

JOHNSON'S Colored Champion Remembers Re-members Those Who Aided Him Galveston. Texas. July 9. Eight men here were made happy by Jack Johnson's winning the championship, without having to wager any money on the light. They are former associates asso-ciates of the Galveston negro, who, j at different times In his career In this, i his native city, befriended blm. j The remembrances from the champion cham-pion wore in the form of remittances ranging from $2.0 to $730. The biggest big-gest remittance wa.s for $750 for Ed Harrison, an eld timer here, who taught Johnson how- :o fight when a young boy, and gave him his llrat lessona in the ring along the docks. Jack appeared anxious to become a lighter and years ago promised his volunteer Instructor that" when he got to be champion and wealthy, he would fit him out in fancy clothes and a red necktie. Sure enough he kept his promise, and one of the first messages he sent after the fight wss to Harrison, telling him to order two suits of clothes and not to bo stingy on the price. While swimming in the bay from the 'docks years ago.' when Johnson was a small boy. he was sucked under a vessel and would have drowned had It not been for Cafferty -Willlama,- an associate, who saved him. Williams iti rememl nred for $500.