BURNS' EXCUSE.
■» THE POLICE INTERVENTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association.Copyright. Lontdn, December 31. Tommy Burns, ti.*e defeated world's champion boxer, has cabled to the Sporting Life from Sydney that Johnson's seconds influenced the police intervention in the fourteenth round. • Burns says that he was then strong, and he always had a chance, as Johnson was tiring. He was willing to again fight Johnson. The Sportsman, commenting on the cable, says that Burns' challenge is considered a joke. The charge against Johnson's seconds was childish, mean, and contemptible, and was quite unfounded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13948, 2 January 1909, Page 5
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