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A Note on Jack Johnson. The Times today has a glowing pen pic ture of the famous Jack Johnson, the heavy weight champion of the world, who appears last night at the Oxford Music hall.We have had a good many newspaper descrip tions of Johnson of late, but The Times man’s description is the best of all. The note is one of admiration for the skill and artistry of the pugilist, tempered here and there by a word of good counsel. But the humour of the thing is delight ful. “Johnson,” we learn, ‘has an un easy look when he plays his big fiddle: one would think that he suspected it of a desir to present him, having got well] inside his guard, with a stiff jolt to the perfly stomach which is known to be his vulnerable point.” Then Johnson is warned to take better care of himself or he will become too “ streaky ” (to use Jem Mace’s phrase) ever to get back again into hard condition, and w!! degene rate into a vast human punching-bag. This description of the champion i: «rch quoting :— A grinning copper-coloured Ce.o
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London Evening News
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Jul 04, 1911
Page 4
Full Page
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David M.
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