BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 3

BOXING.

* — ■•'■yi-. ;(By Upper-Cut).- --' I Boxall, the Queensland amateur', who arrived m these' parts a fewweeks ago, has secured employment m the city. With Lane, Tresize and j Boxall on the job, not to mention others of lesser note who intend displaying their powers m the, fistic arena, things ought to hum to the satisfaction of .patrons next season. During a visit to Nelson at the New Year, I was informed that "the project of forming a Boxing Association to push the sport ahead was taken up by a few enthusiasts, but the support tendered to -the venture by the general public led to it being quietly, knocked on the head. Nelsonians, m the matter of sport, haven't got enough go to catch worms on a warm summer's day. Bob Rollo, the Sydney lightweight, whose arrival m Dominionland was chronicled last week, has been urged by several loversj;. of the art to start a school there. The difficulty is to secure a suitable building at a moderate rental. .. s For his long-talked-of figlit with big Jack Johnson, Tommy, Burns insists on an 18ft. ring instead of the usual "twenty-four footer." He points out that he wants it to 'be a fight, not a foot race, and that the less room there is the better chance he will have of making the ''big nig" stand up to him. "Twin" Sullivan's opinion is that Burns is trying to side-step him by talking so much about meeting Johnson. Australia seems \to possess everything m the world at the present time with the exception of a decent heavy-weight boxer. There is at present a unique opportunity for some strapping, fifteen-stone slogger to some out and distinguish himself, but the big 'uns seem to be all watching the little 'uns scrap nowadays. A desperate fight took place .m Dublin recently between Jipi Roche, the Irish champion, and Charlie Wilson, of London. The Londoner is identical with the Wilson who once punched thc soul-case out of Gunner Moir. It was recently recorded that Abe Attell, a yid, had turned Holy Roman, and now a Vancouver paper announces that "Kid" Wedge, the local ex-welter-weight champion pug, is now pastor of "the Presbyterian Church at Barnston, Nebraska.