In the history of U. S. pugilism, filled though it is with the names of many able Negro fighters, there has been only one black heavyweight champion of the world. He, baldheaded, gold-toothed old Jack Johnson, last week climbed into a New York prizering for the honor of being introduced to a crowd that had come to see the Negro who may well be the second. Presently, Jack Johnson clambered out of the ring and the man the crowd had come to see stood up. Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) of Detroit, whose exploits in...
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