JACK JOHNSON SERIOUSLY INJURED
NEW YOBK, June 10. Jack JoTmson, the former heavy weight boxiug champion, was eritically injured wlien a "car he was driving crashed into an electric light pole and overturhed. | Johnson made his living operating I saloons and nightclubs and acted as ' master of ceremonies at cheap caharets \ l"n 1933 he tried to give boxing and pvrestling exhihitions hut abandoned ! that when he collapsed in the Brussels ■ ring. -Ile reduced in 1936 to the role of a spear carrier in " Aida" at Ihe. New Yorli Hippodronie and then he-' eame a nuisanee araund New York boxing establisliments by predicting :the next opponent ' would' slaughter Joe Louis. Johnson then became a pert'orm1 er at a Forty Second Street Arca.de | sideshow, eiglit times daily lecturing jn boxing and physical culture. Hj pla.i ned a series of bouts on the PacWie Coast in 1943 but physiei'i )s declined lo give a medical certiticate. The samc year lie called on Aimee Semple M>Pherson, Los Angeles Teinple, where hc proclaimed henceforth he was going to do his figliting for God.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1946, Page 5
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