WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING FILM.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 8

WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING FILM.

■ The great fight .which took place in" Cuba for tho> world's champion-. «hip and a purse of £10,000, between the negro chatnipion, Jack Johnson, r.ritl the Texas, cowboy, Jess Willard, «- ?3 not heralded in all the newspapers like the previous^ fight between j Jeffries and Johnson. The knowing j ones were backing the giant [exan,, but the. man .in the street could not see how the big negro could get beaten, and especially by a comparatively unknown fighter. G^at was tho surprise and jubilation througtiont the '.world of white people when the cable flashed forth the news^that Willard had knocked out Jack Johnson. Jess'Willard, standing 6ft. 7in. high, won the hardest-fought battle ever known for a world's championship. Jack Johnson has been spoken of as a figliting ■■■.machine,--and/".;this-fiooms to suit him all right. In tho 6000-foot film showing next i'.noay and Saturday at. His Majesty .s one sees Johnson lighting his hardest, but. he was up agipst it, and knew it when "• in the-'.'sixteenth round he Willard on the point—a blow that would liavo.-. "outetl" almost anyone—but the big cowboy hardly wiifced- "Tafo the wife out of the stadium," sairrthe negro,''and this was the beginning of thb "end—m tm> 28fch round Jess AYillard landed a ! knock-out blow and the darky champion was counted out. The plan is at the Central News Agency...- ~.