“[Johnson was] this amazing negro from Texas, this black man with the unfailing smile, this king of fighters and monologists... No one understands him, this man who smiles. Well, the story of the fight is the story of a smile. If ever a man won by nothing more than fatiging [sic] than a smile, Johnson won today.”
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