THE JOHNSON- WTLLARD FIGHT.
The i thrill that was caused by the news of. Jack Johnsiph'a defeat at tho i'ha'ndVbf Jess Willai'd is recalled by the :anripiiricjfement.. th&t ' til© great fight will be shdwri upon the screen at His Majesty's Theawb oil Saturday and Monday next. Willard fought Johnson 'for something more' than the champion of the .world. • He entered the inhg to prove that the white rac© could produce' a bet- ; ier ftghiirig ; ina-n inaii the black race, aKid tli6 knock-out blow that he 1 delivered In the ' 26tli round echoed over three, 'continents. " Thd big fight, the. nic^t-famous fistic battle of recent times/ isa thing of the^pnst'asvfar as^evon'fs gp, but eyery moment has been tabu-, irt-t^d, eveiy ' Hit as it 1 was delivered,
every stop record eb^afrbm the sound of the first gong:. :to the fatal count of "out" when' Jeis' WiUard. ■■'■ the great cow-puncliing rauger, wha>e early train' ing of a' streiMiotis life fitted hint for ilk greatest contest of all. rewarded \ ■with the coveted priz-?, the- champion ship belt. Twenty -six rounds of solid figMmg v will be shown m. this picture, and during the perfonna-ne'e' tlie World's Pictures Symphony Orc.hostra will piny appropriate music. Tho box plan i:now open' at Miller's corner. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 5
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207THE JOHNSON-WTLLARD FIGHT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 5
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