Boxing.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 4130, 15 April 1909, Page 5

Boxing.

STRAY NOTES

Tim Tracy and Jack Griffin are matched to meet in Auckland on May 6th. Bob Kane, of H.M.S. Pioneer, who sparred four rounds at the last tourney given by the Hawke's Bay Boxing Association, was defeated in a bout with Starlight in the 13th round on the 3rd of this month in Sydney. "Old Star." who is now in his 54th year, is described by the Sydney papers as a wonder. Elliot, the N.Z. featherweight champion, won from Ted Green on points on April 6th, at the Gaiety in Svdney. Ellio' is a very popular fighter in that city at the present time and is described in flattering terms as a game and plucky little boxer. Gault. another New Zealander. who, it will be remembered, boxed Murphv in Hastings, is matched to box Bob Humming, of H.M.S. Prometheus, on tbe 24th inst., in Sydney. It is somewhat surprising that a game little fighter like Gault has not secured a match before this, his previous appearance in Sydney has "been'a preliminary only. It is stated on good authority that Tommy Burns has been approached by the Scientific and Self-defence Syndicate to name his terms to go to America to box Stanley Ketchel, the champion middle-weight of the world, or A. L. Kangman. the American heavy weight. Burns replied that he would go for nothing less than £4ooo—win, lose or draw. Nothing else would suit him, especially as he had made up his mind to quit the ring for good. " I cannot make 20,000d0l any other way in the same time," remarked the gritty Canadian, "and it seems to me that it would be foolish were I to refuse the chance. If they won't give the money, well, there's an end to it; I can settle down in Sydney straightgway, but should my terms be accepted," I will go over and fight and come back here again very soon," Lecturing at the Y.M.C.A. (England) recentlv on education. His Excellency Lord Chelmsford laid down three great rules for the building up cf a nation. The first was "Love your country" ; the second was "Tell the truth" ; and the third "Don't dawdle." Referring to the latter, Lord Chelmsford said he very much regretted to notice how willing crowds of people were each week end or on other public occasions, to pay their sixpence or their shilling to see a game of football or a boxing match. He believed in football as a form of sport, and he also approved of boxing. He, however, thought that the thousands who went to-see the Burns-Johnson fight should have done so with the idea that if called upon to test their skill as boxers against someone else in the crowd presumably their own equal they ■were prepared tc do that.