BOXING.
A cable mcs'fiago from Chicago to the fcjydney ' Sim nays : —Having no ring I fighting to occupy his time, Jack Johnson ' is hankering after a fight in tlio courle. and its looking to Jim Corbett, Jim Jeffries, the New York Boxing Cummistion, ajtd others to provide the opposition. "I've got my legal training camp all ready," the chmnpi-on declared, "and I don't care who takes first ehot at me. If Corbett wants to go to law with mo I'd just as toon fight there, as in the Ting. 1 have «tlev> got my eye. on that Xow York Boxing Commission, 'which thinks it is miming America. Then, if Jeffrie** has anything to say I am ready for him. I am also keeping an eye on O'Rourke, and watching Tom Curley and Jim Flynn." When .asked whether he was still negotiating with Mr MTntodi for a. fight with Sain .M'Vea in Pario, Johnson replied: " I am too bit-y already, and if a fight wore to come up now I would collapse.. 1 wouldn't go for £20,000. I want to see mv fight with tho Boxing Commission through first." Jeffrie* has replied to Johnson's legal challenge, by offering him a porter'e job in his Los Angeles cafe.
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Evening Star, Issue 14787, 31 January 1912, Page 7
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206BOXING. Evening Star, Issue 14787, 31 January 1912, Page 7
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