BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 12

BOXING.

j IBr Mrncqnr ) | j" FIXTURES. B.d. Tourney,'Clarke v.' 70-:w:,'Jackie (Opera Ilonso). B.A, Tourney (Opera House), [■•; ?§■ :;S 7 'sbing3i jiiigiHstid' are quiet' : i'n the Dominion.. during tUo week was' ' tourney, .' which' 'appears. • to. : .?y|'"2gi:-r:httTo/b«)ri" crowned -with, Buccess,, ' >«■ ;■«;■' As generally. expected, despite tbo faot. that he' 1, 1[ 19 not training verv (trenuomly, "Bob" i , Turner had no difficulty m "putting away" (. !;■' tB« rather 6ver-rated. -"Jack" Griffin; but tl».' *

contest, appears to, have pleased, tho local, •people, . although ending . tamely in the fifth ■round,':.,-. Harry Sandow and Arthur M'laglan have signed to fight at. the Gaiety on September 14. The returned New Zfcaland: ' athletes...V report having scan M'Laglah-in action" against Joe Costa" during their stay in Sydney,-and, from accounts, ft' appears, that. ha:.is just such another :ivild,' untutored. "slugger" as 'Sandow showed,•himself' to be when in l Wellington. So this match, would, be an.excellent, oho to stay away from. -'•,

"Dealer" Wells nod F, Fitzjohn, both conqueroM'of: "Billy" Elliott, meet on? Tusday, 'September 14, -at 9st. ring-sidOi. . At West Maitlanc!,. ".Hilly" il'Cali, • recently beaten.by'Maoriliinder "Dave" Smith; iat Brisbane, bent '.'Tun" Jlnrphy : on points over 20' rounds./' Tlils gives'. Smith a jgMd- footing, and he.has now 'been'matched- against; Albert Schn- : lon' ..on ,; Septeriiberv29." Both > these men .are: known: here,/'and ' it- is expected . that the red-" headed': Queensland .blacksmith. will -keep. ojir ex-champion 'middleweight extremely busy. ' : English 'advices report 'that -Welshman Owen Mbran has been:nfatohed',.with "Jim" Driscoll' ;to box- in London for tho world's feather-weight .'chnmpionship.' Where' do • Wijlsh, Attcll, and Co. come in under this arrangement? .It "looks, as though. theyihrfye>beeh -left out, and, if so, thefe.vjvill; he;."something -the big- ; raon, of:.tho small /brigade if 1 the ..tiile;.is : . claimed ,hy:.' tho "winner' of this bout; : ;.'The'U.ttusettting;'wran^|ing'nnd:.publi6 i'wiishing of Unclean linen-yithout which - the rfirstraokt''heaHia'V6e6iii.tnno)>l«^o:(.cinduet - their is-still ; occupying an:', amount " of.--'spaco -in :the - American: sporting press? quite' clispro-' partionate '-.to- its;. value. It certainly ; is .'.not ,-instructive,' :interesting, .or•: amusing,' 'except-'-in-'so far as -it--.indicates * apparently''-' tho fierce -light tbat.-beats upon/ a throno is a guttering thlloV. dip,compared with the.'.blaze of loquacity, tfith whichthese virulent pedlars ".of'-.words: disport-..'themsejv'es. - The': latest affair,' stripped of. a lot. of undecorative detail;, •tells that,, after: the nmtching of "Al. ! ', 'Raiif--iiian' arid-"Jack" Johnson/ the contracting'parties fell .out over- details. Firstly," Knnfniaii, who .'fancies himself as a; loik-distanco fighter, and whp: evidently Wanted to beat tho black by a prpcossVof : exhaustion, or-'by starving "hiin out,-".'wanted 45 - rounds. .'., ; Johhso'n':'iv'anted .20, but;ultimately compromised at ; 3o.';' Then: thoro was tho .usual trickery .over. the-financial .emoluments,' aid just >when- seemed tirranged, and ' seemingly- 1 yerj- favourably arranged .'for .Kaufman/who was to receive' 33- per- cent".' of the:- gate, the' Californian - astonished everyone .by'crying' the wholo'thing off in the', most: cava- - lier. way. .'.This,''.was the stats .of 'affairs.-[wjien lithe Inail left, and . tho sporting journalist opp'ears ;.to'- hn»' •go t' quite. stirred -up over tho then the , cables':h'avo informed .'lis that, a 'matcjr lias been clinched '-between tho men in tho shapo. of a ten-round contest, iVhich would .'-appear ' to;; l» .v simply : ]iaiidiug oyer; to,, the negro''the/decision' in advance.;