RING NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 4

RING NOTES.

¦o» CHAMPIONS 4.ND OTHERS. LANGFOED BEATS The Sydney Sun keeps the Australian boxing world in close touch with ring Jiappenings outside the Commonwealth. Some of its items will bo j found appended. When informed that £10,000 had b2en bid by Mr. Harry Fraser, a New York theatrical manager, for a match between Al Kaufmann and himself, iv London during the Coronation week. Jack Johnson said : "It's too good to be true. I can't make myself believe it's on the square. I'd just hate to take money like that. It wouldn't Ut> right." !But, despite his chatter, Johnson eonsideis Kaufmanu the next best heavyvreight in the world to himself. Jack Johnson has another lawsuit on his hands. The plaintiff is a New York sculptor, who seeks to recover £800, which, he alleges, the negro boxer owes him for making a plaster-paris cast of the Johnson physiognomy. Through his lawyer, the sculptor declares that Johnson posed many times for him in July last, after commissioning him to make the cast. Tritely when the thing was completed, Johnson is said to have expressed great admiration for iL Bui when the . sculptor sought to collect his bill Johnson was not to be found. Indeed, says the sculptor^ when he did E?e the black champion and agked ior his money, Johnson ignoiad him. Johnson has been served wnli tho summons and complaint iv the suit, and the case is expected to be placed for trial soon. Johnson even went so far as to inscribe his name on the base of the cast with ;i nail; according to t!>e sculptor. l B?jn Lapgfprd, who defeated Joe,

Jeanette for the fourth time in Boston on 11th January, caused a scare that bad effect throughout the United States last month. "1 am retiring from the ring," the papers credited the _ black champion with saying; but in the morning Sam had no recollection of it. Then -things were calm everywhere. I While- there is plenty of money to be earned by the front-rank boxers, the tot of the boy aspiring to fistic fame is not always an easy one. Eudie Unholz was paid £1 for his first engagement, but his brother George secured £30 as his share of. the proceeds in his opening fixture. George, however, failed to make good, and he has had to start again at the bottom. He fought eight hard rounds to win on a recent Tuesday night, and received only a couple of pounds — hardly sufficient to pay his training expenses. But he is not despondent. "I will get more next time," said George. And there is no doubt that he will. A boxer» named Morris, who comes from Oklahoma, is the latest "hope of the white race." In a match against Kennedy, another heavyweight, he knocked his man out in the second round, after flooring him four times. The Stadium management has about decided to hold a farewell show for Jimmy Clabby and Eay Bronson on Wednesday night, when both the American boxers will appear against local men in ten round bouts. Bronson has offered to meet Hughie Meeghan, Sid Sullivan, Dick Cullen, or Bob Bryant, ivhile Clabby says he prefers Arthur Cripps to all others. Should Cripps fail to respond, it is likely that Monty Andrews will be given a chance, since hs has challenged all Australia at the " middle-weight limit. The gate receipts for the recent battle between Battling Nelson and Owen Moran amounted to £2636, of which Nelson received £1048, Moran ±5655, and the promoter £917, so that the loser was the principal beneficiary. The San l?rancisco Chronicle announces that Tex Eickard is endeavouring to arrange a return match between Johnson and Jeffries. Tommy Burns has cabled to Mr. H. D. M'lntosh his acceptance of the latter's oner of a purse of d £2500 for a fight with Bill Lang in London. Burns will be guaranteed this amount regardless of the result of the fight. Jack Lester, otherwise "The Fighting Demon," who is Burns's protege, will accompany the ex-champion to England.