Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Jack Johnson, the Negro, was a fugitive from justice, yet he was
champion prize fighter of the world. He was spending money like a wild
sailor, and his funds were running low. He was getting into precisely
the condition where Jews like to find a man, to use him. Unable to fight
in the United States, but still possessing the championship, he was in
need of a way out. At this time Frazee and Curley made a proposition to
Johnson, said to involve the sum of $35,000, if he would “lay down”
before Jess Willard. And thus Jess Willard, “probably the worst fighter
that ever held a title,” was made world champion. Frazee and Curley then
exhibited Willard on the stage and in circuses, and drew rich dividends.
The crooked fight at Havana did not involve Willard, he was too poor a
fighter to need “fixing.” Only Johnson had to be “fixed” not to knock
Willard out, which he could easily have done. But between the time when
Curley and Frazee gave Willard the title, and the time when Dempsey took
it away from him, the Jewish syndicate made a very rich killing out of
the gullible American public.
But Curley is not the subject here, he deserves a separate story. Frazee
concerns this article because he became owner of the Boston baseball
team. He bought a new show—the Boston club, in the best baseball city of
the American League. John J. Lannin, former owner, was a real baseball
man, so much so indeed that the excitement of the games told on his
health and it became necessary for him to relieve himself of the strain.
Frazee was waiting to cut in, and whether Lannin feared that the
proposal of Frazee’s name to the American League would result in
disapproval, or whether Frazee himself, knowing it, contrived to make it
worth while that the agreement between the American League owners should
be ignored, remains an open question.
However that may be, the American League woke up one morning to find the
little burlesque manager and promoter of a crooked prize fight in their
midst. It was a sad shock to the dignity of “the cleanest sport.”
What could they do about it? Nothing. Frazee had bought and paid for
what he held.
Baseball was about as much of a sport to Frazee as selling tickets to a
merry-go-round would be. He wanted to put his team across as if they
were May Watson’s girly girly burlesquers. Baseball was to be “promoted”
as Jewish managers promote Coney Island.
The American League owners rebelled, but let them rebel! What could they
do about it?
Frazee began his next inside work almost immediately. Ban Johnson was
unalterably opposed to the Frazee idea of sport, and Frazee set out to
“get” Johnson. A split occurred in the American League, with Frazee, Til
Huston and Jake Ruppert of the New York Club, and Charles A. Comiskey
and Grabiner, of the Chicago Club, on one side against Johnson, and the
other American owners comprising the other party supporting Johnson.
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