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Racism in sport 运动场上的种族歧视 The black white hope; 黑白的希望; The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans,Boxing s First African-American Champion. ByWilliam Gildea. 《最漫长的比赛：与首位美裔黑人拳击冠军乔甘斯同行》威廉姆吉尔迪亚著。 THE whitest black man that ever entered the ring, said a famous American sports writera century ago in praise of Joe Gans. Given the place and the time, the comment wasunexceptional. It is Gans s reaction to the insulting words that still astounds. Far from beingoffended, the first American-born black boxer to win a world title regarded it instead as acompliment. So, less remarkably, did his numerous white fans. 一百年前，某位著名的美国体育记者曾这样赞赏乔甘斯：他是拳击场里最受白人拥戴的黑人。彼时彼地，这绝不是一条普普通通的评价。甘斯对别人的侮辱有着惊人的忍耐力。对于首位赢得世界第一的美国本土黑人拳击手来说，这样的评价绝不是冒犯，而是褒扬。就连他不计其数的白人粉丝听后也感到甘之如饴。 Against enormous odds, as William Gildea recalls in his episodic biography, Gans hadby 1906 achieved the seemingly impossible. He actually left the ring a popular winner insuccessfully defending his title against Battling Nelson, a Danish-American, in Goldfield,Nevada. Even grizzled prospectors whooped when, after two hours and 48 minutes, thelongest championship fight of the 20th century, Nelson was disqualified for a deliberatelow blow. | 
