RING NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 20

RING NOTES.

INTERESTING ITEMS MOM ALL PARTS, In Perth reccnt'y, "Tommy" Jones boxed "Billy" Wenand for tho fourth time for what was termed "the featherweight championship of Australia." On tho last occasion they met, Wenand was given tho fight owing to Jones caliberately fouling him with his head m tho third round. In the contest under notice Jones entered tho ring unfit, and the fight did not lar-l two minutes. Referee Basto stopped it and cavo it "no contest," saying thot Joiws was in no condition to fight. Jones has now challenged Weuand foi 1 a contest to take place in a fortnight's time, the public to, be admitted free, but it is unlikely that the offer will bo seriously entertained, saya the Sun. A NEWSBOY CHAMPION. The best contest seen during the programme of the amateur championships at the Stadium, Ru*hcutters Bay, wa& that between P. Jones (8.2) and T. Wastie (7.11), in the bantam-weight division, writes a Sydney journal. Jones was runner-up in, the bantamweight section of ■ the championships last year, being defeated only in't he -final after a close and exciting strugglo with the champion, J. King. Wastie- is"nlittle, shrivelled-up-lookmg fellow.' He 1 is a newsboy, and king of the 'papersellers anywhere near , his weight in. Woolloomooloo. Wastie' won, tho ban-tam-weight department of the recent South Sydney Harriers' open tournament. B. G-ershon, the champion ballpuncher, tutored him. Jones had tho advantage in youth, ■ weight, height, reach, and strength, but Wastie was quicker with his hands and cloveror, and a veritable will-o'-the-wisp on his feet. It was a most exciting bout. Jones waded right in from the start, evidently with the intention ' of knocking out his insignificant-lookiug opponent right away. But that didn't suit Waetie, who peppered Jones with his loft one-two-tnree, crossed him sweetly with a. jolting right, and bounced away. Just in time, too, for Jonee nearly connected with a swishing right swing. It wae mostly liko i-hat right through. Jones hot after his man all the time, and occasionally sending him reeling with powerful lofts a-iyl rights when ho could get near enough. It was only necessary for him to land with a right properly on the jaw, but Wastta'ls clusiveneeß would not permit of this. RIVERS BEATS CONLEY. "Frankie" Conley, the 'Frisco light weight, who ha« fought Wolgast, Ojiven Moran, Joe Mandot, Abe Attell,and a bunch of good men, all with fair success, got tumbled to' the canvas by Joe Rivers, tho Mexican featherweight, in a ripping battle fought at the Vernon arena, Los Angeles. The knock-out, the first Conley ever experienced, came in the eleventh round of a scheduled twenty-rounds mill. From the start Conley was outclassed by the Mexican, and only once, when he succeeded in landing on Rivers's jaw, did he really reach his man with anything that bothered 4 him. In the finishing found, when Conley was on- the floor and unable to continue, Eefereo Eyton stopped tho contest. RAY BRONSON IN TROUBLE. Ray BronGon, of Indianapolis, In., who made a good impression in Australia two years ago, and who now and then shows flashes of fighting ability, got no better than a draw In his contest with Tommy Devlin, of Philadelphia, fought over ten rounds distance at Jetfereonville, Indiana. Devlin, who haa a record about as long as an inch, and who has been beaten by such boys ac Phil Brock, gave Bronson about all he could hold, and Ray found he had to do some l-cal fighting to keep from being declared the loser. JOHNSON'S MODEST DEMANDS. Johnson is demanding 31,000 dollars for his end in the fight which has been arranged between him and "Jim" Flynn. A writer in an exchange says, apropos: "In the face of the huge sum demanded by Johnson, which if complied with, is going to bring the expense to a promoter of staging a battle close to 60,000 dollars, it is interesting to note some of the gate receipts of former championship contests as complied in the latest Fox's annual : Gans v. Nelson, at Goldfields, 1906, 69,715 dollars; Jeffries v. Corbett, Sail Francisco, 1903, 63,340 dollars; Corbett v. Sullivan, 1892, New Orleans, 45,000 dollars; Fitzsiinmons v. Corbett, Carson City, 1897, 22,000 dollars; Jef-, fries v. Fitzsimmonii, San Francisco, 1902, 31.800 dollars; Johnson v. Jeffries, Reno, 1910, 270,775 dollars." FLYNN'S TRAINERS. James J. Corbett, Tommy Ryan, and "Abe" Attell have been selected as the men to train Jim Flynn for his bout with Jack Johnson. Hugh D. M'lntosli has made a big offer to "Jim" Sullivan to visit Australia as soon after his contest with Georges Carpentier as possible, and name a guarantee of £1000 and expenses, as well as other engagements. No opponents are named, but if Sullivan thinks well enough of it he will accept the offer.

UNHOLY "Rudie" I'nJiolz, tlu; Botr lightweight, waß ba-ck in. Chicago some time since, and is trying to got, a match wtt) " Battling " Xeison. FIGHTERS,' NOT BOXERS. The following is from an expert in America, -where the, "in 1 * and "all-in" fighter was fire,^. made and encouraged :•— "^Nlore attention, however. I fear ieboing given to developing a class ot fighters rather than^boxers, too >nuoU stress Going laid on tho knock-out as against esdontific glove work tor points White thwa aye exceptions, the result us a wholo is a lot of sturdy chaps.., husky and game as pebbles, who ar<? inferior in tho art -of boxing and who will not stand one, two, three against a clever boxer with a straight .punch aad any stMMi. bed j l)loW6 - Ad - Wolga&t, "One R °una ' Hogan. "Knock-out" Brown, nnd l'rank Klaus, a-rt promiuent exantpl«j of this type. While it must l)& adnutted tnat their style helps them, to win hghfcs, it ifl also true that did our referees strictly interpret the Queensberry rules, they would be on tho losing end fully a* ofyen. Were Battling Nel«.pn, for mbtance, to employ in a, British ring, tactics that find favour here, he certainly would be disqualified- in very short order, lo prevent our -vingmeii ac a class completely overlooking all of the fine pomfe. of boxing as exemplified by such mciijis, Corbett. and M'Coy in their prune,', and. Langtord, ' A be .Altell, and % Jimmy" Walsh, of the presont.date, it is necessary .that the -rules of the game bP strictly enforced. , 8 FLYNN-THB, GREAT SACRIFICE. By 'present um'augemente we are to bo spared the humiliation of seeing tho world s heavyweight championship comnoted for by a couplo of Ethi&bians, though it is to be doubted whether, tho alternative is -not even worse in come respects, for if the most recent cables are to be believed, yet another white mains shortly due to be beaten to make a Johnson holiday, eaya a writer in an English exchange. Tjie particular lump which is destined to be offered up aB a, human eacrifice to the "hero" of Reno is 'Jim Flynn, who should prove a tastier morsel than either Burns or Ketchel or even Jeffries. It is coivceivablo that Flynn might beat a drum providing the drum was in complacent mood, but his chance with Johnson is about as apparent? as a "point" which our old friend Euclid informs us hath neither part* nor magnitude. What puzSsles_ me is this : Who are behind the affair, and what do they imagine they are going to get out of it? According to the cable the men aro gomg to fight in Nevada some tinie in J»J,V. and tho coloured man is to get £6250. Just what Flynn is to getoutside of a thundering good lickinghas not as yeb transpired, but I should very much doubt whether he would accept less than £2000 and the same share of the pictures as Johnson. • Assuming, however, that Flynn got none of the picture money, 1 doubt whether this would make such a very great differenca to the promoters, for fight pictures are at present the. veriest .drug ;in the market, and it i$ questionable whether films ■of any contest in which Johnson made one would be permitted to be displayed m any part of the world. If it & purported to hold the fight in Nevada the promoters will have to pay a license of £200, and unless they stage the battle at Reno, which is, under all the circumstances, most unlikely, they will have to erect an arena which will run them into anything up to £3000 or so. Add another £2000 on for expenses, anc you have a grand total of £13.450, which must be taken at fhe box office before the promoters get a cent. Even assuming that they have sold the pictures for, say, £5000 (an outside estimate), and that Flynn gets no share of the loot, the promoters would still have .to draw about £10,000 at the gates before they made a cent's worth of profit.