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I•ATTI’XI/S CIIARGK (IK \ “IKAMK.U”’ AIJi BOSH.I OUGHT TO KNOW,- 'MMHandsome .Ilium)’** Wealth \\ *»u|lt;j Have Ihsn InrrcttMMl, Sajs Hr,If Affair Wu* Crooked.IAbe AttoU's recent declaration that the fight for ho heavyweight championship of the world was “framed* up” has been branded us a false l statement of facts by ex-Champion, James J. Corbett, who was in Jeffries’ corner and tried his best to dis. j concert the negro during the heat of the battle.Attell told friends that be had dis-j covered that Jack Johnson had '‘eroded” Jeffries by first agreeing tu bo the loser in the big battle and then [•‘lighting it out” on the white man. t In reply to these accusations, Cor* j beit. defending the big boilermaker says: ■“There's nothing to this talk of At* I tell’a. I would know—If anybody—if there was a frame up. There was none. Worry and fretting beat tbe i big fellow, i could have won from i him myself July 4th. So could you.I “My brother was official betting commissioner of the big fracas, i could have made many a. dollar on jthat, go if there was anything doing.’ Maybe Jim did?! It didn't take long to get a ri»« out of those concerned on the John* i son end. Both the black champion and his former manager, George.,, deny by wire thatthey know anything of such a deal.,Johnson has an ingenious way of not dodging the issue when it is pus up to him directly. He says that he never sanctioned any such agreement, and it one w as made it was somebody i in whom he reposed no confidence and whom he would refuse to recog* nize as authority for such a move, i
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Canton News Democrat
Canton, Ohio, US
Tue, Nov 01, 1910
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IL, USA 02 Apr 2017
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