LATEST BOXING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 4

LATEST BOXING NEWS.

KETCHEL TO TOUR AUSTRALIA, After having the match fixed and the articies signed by Mike Williams, the Stadium management at Sydney were informed by "Gunner" Moir that he could not go on with his contract to meet the boxer named because ho wanted to get to England as quickly as possible. There was no help for it but to look about for a substitute, and. Les. O'Donnell offered himself, with the result that he and Williams will meet at the Stadium next Wednesday night. ■ . . Lang is now actively preparing to meet- ■ lomtny Burns on Easter Monday night. Burns is already in very good shape, having shed over a stone of the heavy load of.superfluous tissue with which his bodyhad become burdened during fourteen months abstention from vigorous eier- ' cise. Tommy is training on 'somewhat new. lines. There are no long,'wearying. out-trudges now; he contents himself in the morning with a four or five-mile, walk, and in the afternoon dons the gloves with three or four big fellows, and varies his work with some games of handball, at which the ex-world's champion is an expert. ....... ;: W. Elliott has .sustained another loss—> this time at the hands of "Seaman" Duffy Describing the contest the- "Referee" Sa ys.:—"The .boxers certainly put ■up'.'a clever go, and the expert considered that on the whole'Elliott did a bit better than ' Duffy, aud should have been declared the winner,, .despite- the burst of- applause which: greeted the .ruling: l "Duffy wins." ' Elliott had a lead in' nine rounds, Duffy had the better of sefen, and there were nve as; evenly battled through, as ever " ™?. nd s were.-. Thus it will be seen that i/Uiott had two rounds to the good, but Eefer.ee Frank Fitzjohn evidently, gaw it a .bit differently. Duffy showed" put in the concluding five rounds, and thai ■fact. probably pulled him' through." : ; '.'Thus a New Tork message with're* spect to the trouble which recently - over* took "Jack" Johnson:—"The cause oj-' the. attack, according ,to .complainant, Pinder,'was his refusal to. buy: cham. pagne when Johnson/wanted a drinks When, he , was at- headquarters, Johnson said to the captain at the deski - Honest, captain, I'm sorry I didn't.hit him , harder. 'He has been casting aspersions on me for a. long time, and I had to hit:. him.' . The blotter entry against the fighter' said : : 'Hit ■ him' witfi his right, hand, causing him to fall to .the- floor, and then kicked -him, i threw a chair:at him,ppusherd r tho_\table ovei on him, ,and ■ then .got ■ iis hand in.;hig ; back pocket-and pulled out a gun.'-"../ '."The;six-round king is remarfci an 'American journal,'which' wp see'tuat'shadow of-ffie ' ring— J.. O'Brien—dance: around^'coming . champions, closing their eyes, ; making. -•.■ them; miss him two feet, : and quit'the ring disgiisted at the.end' of the' bout. , Poor 0 Brien's days as the six-round champion' are : over. His contest against - Al. Kaufman proved beyond doubt that Jack is a "second-rater, "even'in a sixround go. O'Brien was shy everything that went to'make him a greatlihan ii , bygonedays. He had no judgment'of distance, was poor on liis feet, ducked into ; swings; and pulled haymakers, from the . floor that would have looked"a weakness ■ even in a novice. "Stanley Ketcheltbok all the go out of Jack, and Father' Time pud ' the Oregon boot •Oα his ankles." ■'■' '■ According" to the American' commisi ■.-. sioner of the Sjdncy .'"Eeferee," . Papko : declares that he will- go on' to Australia and arrange' a, ,; match'-'with Lang. •." Hβ ■" the; look 'of .'things . .there will be.a kind ofp'ursuit race, wifli Papke in' the van and Stanley following. 1 Ketchel declared- a few"daygi ago . that he had been matched -against , Tom' Thomas in liondpn,^'June; and'that he'%iiild j posably''niake. fhe"-'journey' ; i»'' Au'strilia ■ later arid endeavour • to --tirf farige' a contest with •": Tommy. Bnrnsl '■'.' Ketchel announced'from his nqmei .in Grand Eapidsv that Hugh ilintosh, the Australian promoteri-'had. cabled- Kim- an,. o(ter:.ofj.a' series of three matches "in : Sydneyj'aijd';_had:.assufed'him'that his.shar» - of the prize money.would amount to ak .most 40,000 dollars. . . _ -,■■;.,«>!?« "Tommy Burns""was" named, as one of my opponents, and Bill Lang as another, said Ketchel. "The other man was to be named—later. I declined the offer,.-beeaesor-l .want- to be-in a. -position.: to call myself undisputed middle-weight, champion'of the'world, arid I cannot do this until Ihave beaten Tom/Thomas, the Englishman.' I am to box him before tho National Club in London in June, and after that I may. go to Australia and sign, up with Burns." ' ■ ... ■.; .■' ■[

' .With Papke and Ketchol going abroad, ii will beTiald to-find a suitable opponent for Xangfofd. The'negro is to bos; Jim Flynn'at Lost jAngeles early in February, and'-aafterr r that he..'will' come to Sari Francisco, and 'talk : over.' the prospects witlr :Blot., The latter tried to se-v cure Al. Kaufman as an opponent for ,Langford,but ; Al, who is in the East at present, has not delivered himself of anything that suggests over-readiness to hooki up with-the Boston coon. 'They have an. idea.here-tha.t Bill-Lang is-on his.way;.fo this country 'from' Australia. , . If he ar*. rives' here-within'the. next few weeks : hef. can have a niatch wth langford for tb* asking. "■ ; .>."' ,!, ,; ■;'■ " .;' I "