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Black boxers have seized the Cuban fancy. Rumored (not without reason) : that Jack Johnson (L'il Artha), sometime heavyweight champion of the world, is matched to meet Sam Langford (Boston Tar Baby), champion of Mexico and Spain, in the Stadium Marina, Havana...
Irvin S. Cobb, whose side-splitting after-dinner stories have for over a year helped to carry the advertising in some hundreds of newspapers, has apparently made an even more lucrative strike. He is writing advertisements signed by himself. Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Jack Tar apparel is sold by the Strouse-Baer Co. of Baltimore. They have double-stitched seams and re-inforcements at the strain points. They cost $3.95. The ad is illustrated by Tony Sarg. On either side of the display appear the faces of Cobb and Sarg, smirking knowingly...
...Langford, "Boston Tar Baby," has won a championship after 20 years in the ring. It's not much of a title for one who might have been champion of the world, but they say old Tham is pleased. He knocked out Kid Savage in one round and took from him the championship of Mexico...
...great and open West. Having taught New Yorkers how to throw more than one kind of bull, he intends to demonstrate to them the other pastimes that have made the West what it is. A genial Kansan hearing of this, sent in to suggest a good old-fashioned tar and feathering. This, though admittedly excellent fun, was vetoed as being unsportsmanlike. Then a harvesting bee was proposed, but when Tex found out that harvesters were immense machines, he decided that the scheme was impracticable and would have no human interest nor leave any space for spectators...