'Now, there is another thing that hurts me, and it's the unjust way some of the papers have treated Jeffries. It's a crying shame to try and intimate that he quit. A gamer man never drew on a boxing glove, and I have the highest respect for Jeffries, but can't say the same for some of his supposed friends. Jeff was worried sick and his supposed friends were to blame for it all. Just recall that when I returned here with the title of the world's champion that the whole country raised a hue and cry for Jeffries to return to the ring and fight me. When he answered that call as a soIdier would, and went through a course of training that would have been a severe test to any one - and no one but a game man could have gone through with it as he did - and then when he made the best fight he could, the knockers came out and roasted him. Why not give him the credit that's his due? Does the country malign a man that fights for it if he goes down to defeat gallantly? No. Then why attack Jeffries? He is a fine man, and I hope he will not hold any hard feelings against me, for I want to be his best friend, and I stand ready to do anything that I can for him.' - Jack Johnson, Vancouver Daily World - Saturday 6th August 1910
Nothing p1sses me off more, not an American thing Aussies are the same, actually dare I say it Aussies are worse - hear how most talk about our fighters after a loss.
