JOHNSON AND JEFFRIES. THE COMING FIGHTI.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 7

JOHNSON AND JEFFRIES. THE COMING FIGHT.

"DISGRACEFUL AND BRUTAL ORGY." By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 26th March. Sir Robert Perks, addressing the Methodist Social Union of New York, declared that the Jeffries-Johnson fight (to take place on 4th July) would be a disgraceful and brutal orgy of wicker), ness, and the United States would be disgraced by countenancing such an exhibition. He appealed to the Methodists to make a protect to stop the fight. Sir Robert Perks, ex-Liberal M.P., is the eldest son of the Rev. T. G. Perks, M.A. He was for twenty-five years a solicitor in London in partnership with I<ord Wolverhamptoii. Later he became a member of the firm of C. H. Walker and Co., contractois, and was interested in the Barry Docks, Preston Docks, Buenos Aires Harbour Works, Manchester Ship Canal, and other big works. He is one of the founders and tho trea surer of the Liberal League, treasurer of the Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Million Fund, treasurer of the Free Church Congress, and the London Wesleyan Mission. Johnson, the pugilist, in a lecture on Manliness at the Coloured "lon's Branch of tho V.M.C.A., in New York, said, according to tho Paris New York Herald: — "To approach intelligently or to apprehend the psychology of pugilism it is essential that the student grasp the distinction between its venal side and that side that makes for the upbuilding of manliness, with all that, in the common acceptation of the term, it implies. By natural cleavage the subject separates automatically into those twain aspects, classifications, norms, terminologies, or departments. I take it that what I say is obvious without further exegesis or elucidation. Good. Depth of lung, then, although of assistance, is not quintessential, nor should its place be magnified in the schemes, plan, or scope of pugilism. Sobriety, application, sobriety. Write those down in your notebook."