HIGH PRICED PUGILISM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 2

HIGH PRICED PUGILISM.

JEFFRIES WANTS BIG TERMS

LONDON, March 26. Mr Hugh D. Mclntosh, the Sydney sportsman who is now in America endeavouring to persuade James Jeffries to fix up a match with Jack Johnson, seems to have found! the exchampion in a very high-priced mood when they met in New York recently. According to a letter received in London from Mr Mclntosh, this week, Jeffries smiled when the Australian made his offer of 60,000 dollars for the match, and stated that he already had an offer of 200,000' dollars from a Scathe syndicate, and he knew from Calif ornian bank authorities that this was genuine. Mr Mclntosh regarded that as "so much hot air," and told Jeffries that he did not think it possible to offer any two men in the world a greater sum than he was prepared to lay down. He said that immediately Johnson and Jeffries gave any indication of accepting his proposition, he would deposit the full amount of the money in an American bank. He also told Jeffries, who, by the way, has really entered into serious training to try to get some proper condition, that if the big Californian considered himself such a draw he (Mr Mclntosh) would give the fighters 80 per cent, of the gross receipts they could derive from the contest, and out of the remaining 20 he would pay all expenses and look for his own profits. In New York Mr Mclntosh met ''Battling" Nelson, and the lightweight champion informed him that he was willing to go to Australia and fight Jimmy "Britt there iinder Mr Mclntosh's auspices, and will consent to make the match at any time that he and Britt can come to terms. Mr Mclntosh has. commissioned his London representative to lose no time in signing on for a fight in Australia.