BOXING.
* WILLS AND FIRPO.
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED. (BT CABLE—PKBSB ASSOCIATION COrXBIOHT.) (itECTEll's TELEGRAMS.) BUENOS AYRES. Juno 14. . Negotiations for tho TVide-Firpo match have been resumed between Firpo and JuaL Horn's, Tex Richard's agent, on file basis of a new offer by Rickard considerably reducing the original offer of 250,000 dollas. Rickard lowered tho sum because of :?io failure of Wills to knock out Bartley Maddon, the New Yoitk Irishman The now terms arc not dif ——: nut it i 3 believed that the largo re - l "-"v- t-"i the guarantee i 3 balanced by an offer o. >* aoeral percentage of the gate receipts. . • Firpo has requested for, time to tmali lus cinema production. He does not want to leave for tho United States beioro July 17th.
NO MATCHES IN AUSTRIA.
A POLICE BAN
(BI CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION COI'IBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AKD N.Z. CABLH ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 16th, 8 p.m.) VIENNA, June 15. The Austrian police huve prohibited boxing matches, alleging that they conduce to brutalisationi cause waste, of money and keep tho young from work.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18101, 17 June 1924, Page 10
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