The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 2: June 11, 1920Nobody took Willard, the white hope, seriously at first. One of the shrewd est boxing promoters of New York laughed at the big fellow when he begged for a chance to fight Johnson. That -promoter weeps every time he recalls that incident. Finally Willard did get his chance. At Johnson and he won the title. That title brought Wil lard in all something like $750, 000, though he did not get a cent for the Johnson fight itself.Jack Johnson got The negro is now hanging around the race track at Tia Juana, Mexico, where he 'is running a saloon and a crap game, a combination that suits his tempera ment to a T.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.