BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 12

BOXING.

."■ ■'•;'.>■-.■ ;:■:---.: CBy MEnooii?.-). - ; '■■ '.■'■-.;'.. ;f--J" ■;'■' •■ x-;; ; t:;.COMiNGi: events; ';" •:;} ! ';^^>i ;Febrawy-i^^.-Australian:' '': ChamikmshipV i .;> .Squires . r, i.Laug;:; (Sydney).: &. ■>! P ? : ■•: featherweight' chdmpioh,"'has' gone, to 'Melbourne, .and is [challenging:.any ,-Before']ea4g S Zealand,, itlhottwaa: m; negotiation-with the Boxing Association in',Auckland .for' a' : re--;turn, match -with: Godfrey;..with % wKat '■■ result I hare; not heard;:. " ■;'■■.■.'.. ~..-. lias: bition of .'.'in-fighting , ' .m.boxing; matches in, Australia,,and tho,6oz.,.mihimum fop,gloves;i With .the; latter; proposal no pno will quar-- '• ' i! a i nd ;, . Al ??teur: f V' suggests an Amendment to the under which therecent .championship battle was .fought >to deal with.' the'• [Jin-fighting".-'-. olanseV...These',niles- were .publielied. in this column recently, and , the chief, alteration proposed is'the .addition; s ot this : ,",At the; - order jbreak, , .each',contestant:, sliall .stepibacki a pace, without, striking: a blow before' .resuming boxmg. " '.:■■ On, examinatiou ■ this does' not heto matters.';ln tho : first placej-it-leaves overythuig to the. referee.'■ It does not-6ay when :tlut, offioial "shall-'.give ' the' order .."break"—whether:it-is to .be riven when one man is clinching or when'both are.- If the former,..it;isall;infavoiir,of the beaten man, : who .can/clinch.'in; the. sure knowledge of ..dodging punishment' and ■ getting a fresh ■ start,', and if in the latter-case -only, • -then, it will .not step '.'.'Sn-fighting,". because the man clinched can get in his short arm work as; long as. his .hands are free,' as at present. Again,.. what; ooustituteß. a ''.'pace , ' ?. Ihe' men may,_step back;a paceof six-inches and.still be "iii-fighting." It appears to" me that a strict application, of the Marquis of' Queensberj;. rules is., all that '-."is - required in this direction, while'a reform that is'badly needed is-, the total; prohibition of talking either at or. ,to one: : another while in the' ring.:-.- ' .:;.;■ ■•-.-/:■• : •;•;;■,.'..-;.--.,■..,,-..•' ■•■-.-.■ '.Bob Whiielaw defeated.Monty, Andrews;at the Stadium. , Sydney,.,on. Wednesday,. January .13,. in-.tlie;tn-entieth round..-'They affair , was stopped by. thopoliceat' this stage, 'aiidreferee' "Snowy' , ; Baker -awarded the hght to ■Whitelaw.-U :.;-:.:.--<,<':r:Xy.-\':r '; \- -.-;. : p .'■,- Pat O'Keefe,,-.Tommy; Biirns's - sparring . and Mike Williams - were ' billed to at-the. Stadium on January 20,' with, what result is not yet ; known hore. ?,..'■:. V : , , '' Iliglit-crfise" .writes;in the.Sydney "Arrow ".:—There's a fortune:for. Jeffries in-Aus-' tralia if he will o'nlv;come to get Jack' Wren.' offered, tie faraerrsaloon keeper £10,000; " win, -los/), .or .draw," iiv a match with Jack Johnson next X'up ;tiino.- : Just what Johnson would get—"win, .lose,. or draw —has not;transpired, .and. he is the ohampiou. Sam Allen, ■ another- : .Melbourne' bookmaker in a big way, went- .'considerably: better-than:the. first,bidder. Sam says.ho is ' prepared to ■, give £15,000, .- : Jeffries must value extravagantly.highly the reputation'he quitted :_the arena with,.if r one, or other :'of those baits does not lure: him from tho growing of alfalfa for cattle and' the serving up ] of. !'..cocktails,",,"steno fences,". ■and'Eirai-' larly mystifying.decoctions,- recommonded- by : the .lankee barmen as ,surepiok-me-ups after a night of the same poison.,, But: no matter tow Jeff. may : plume,himself.upon.having retired Champion of .the World, or how Ms 1 ' friends may support -his-'-claimi-- he- will' not get i-that.-.credit-.from,"the future, historian of pugilism. Jeffries flrow the colour lino, and Jack Johnson was his bogy. .Tommy Burns was .the .only World's Champion of modern times .who gave, a coloured man a-chanco to win the title.- ■ , ' .; i , •,. ■:..., . Jack Johnson--tips,Lang ; .to beat' Squires on, February 3, and that he wilfS Lang to America with'him should he: justify his ,confidonee.: : .Squires is training in-New-castlo, :and iLang m Sydney,,.where he,giv6s weokly exhibitions, at the Stadium a- la ; ■Burns and;Johnson..: x ■ ■-. ■ '~ ■'.-■■>. ' ~ : : The Ti'Moy-Murpby contest.;was -to' have come off in Hastings; on Thursday, , :but 'at time of nojnewsof thevwsulfis to hand. Howevov, .next' wool:; :I -liope to be aolo to givo particulars of.awiu for "Tim; ,,: ,