BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 67, 19 March 1910, Page 16

BOXING.

It is again stated that a tour of the Jeffries all-star troupe has in some cases spelt financial failure for local promoters, j Few of these gentlemen have made money out of the bookings, while several ot them have had to pay pretty dearly foi j the honour of entertaining the cx-boi!er- ■ maker and his ponderous companions. New York, New Orleans, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago are epecially men-1 tioned as calamitous from the box-office , point of view. Both Johnson and Jeffries have made a , point of saying that the principal I " sport" at the town in which they hap- i pened to b« showing was tile very man specially gifted of all others with the j attributes of the ideal referee, and. that!

he, therefore, was the only man possible for them to select for the onerous duties on July 4, This bit of " gufi" by Jack and Jim -worked all right for a time, but sportsmen finaJly got wise to it, and took it for just exactly what it was worth. All except one, Buck Cornelius, of Pittsburg. Jeffries came along and "told i him the tale"; a little later appeared Johnson, and said he preferred Cornelius of all others r Thereupon Cornelius, who ; weighed 22Q1b., started out to train for : the duties w-hich had been cast upon him. j lie proposes to take off 401b. of super-fat, ; and has already begun wrestling practice, exercises with the apparatus, and qther things which make life burdensome to the modern Falsfcaft; who undertakes to lemove the buiges friiin his figure.