BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 142, 7 March 1908, Page 3

BOXING.

(By Upper-Cut)

" Monty Andrews, having found book--making -to be '.'not nearly the game it's cracked up. to Tse," has determined to enter the fighting ring again. Prom America is caibled hews ot the death of George Dixon,- the colored feather-weight, who was champion of; the world a decade back. Even m America, the home of boxing, Dixon was always recognised as one of the : very cleverest men that ever donned a- glove. < Kid McCoy has broken out m a fresh place. He has turned detective., and started an agency o£ this kind m New York, at which he is making money. McCoy is a very clevver, good-looking young man, with, brains enough to discuss any topic, and when m evening dress no one would ever have taken him for a fighter. . . Characteristic note from Billy Murphy to a friend m Stratford : "I am doing well up here now. lam working for the best tailor m Auckland. . .. ...vl am sticking close to my work, for I have got to up here, but lam longing to get down to see my friends who. are my friends m Stratford. I will most likely be coming through your way, travelling to Wan^anui with the Young Men's Bible Class, so if I do I will stay for a while. G-ive my best wishes to all my white or black' friends, 'but no counterfeits wanted; Tl The latest achievement of Tommy Burns m defeating Jack Palmer is nothing ■ to ' brag about. In fact the Yankee papers, as soon as the fight was arranged,- criticised it m no unmistaken terms as so much "bally rot." They could scarcely have done otherwise,- seeing that Palmer' once fell a victim to a poor old slow third-rater like Mike Williams, who had no chance m this country with Bill Smith and Bill Lang, to say nothing of Squires. It took Burns only four rounds to polish off Palmer, and even at that he may not have been bustling himself to any extent. Tommy's next engagement is with Jem Roche, the Irish champion, m Dublin, on St. Patrick's Day, and here ho looks like having another cake-walk. The writer saw a letter from a Dublin sport last week, who advised a Melbourne friend- to lay any odds at all' on Burns. Whether Johnson beats Burns ■ or not, Jim Jefiries how declines to figjht 'Mm. He believes the nigger will dish Burns tip all right whenever they meet, but declares that he(Jeffries) doesn't want to fight anyone unless he goes stone .'broke, which: is not likely. Some of the Yankee sporting scribes, however, say that if Johnson does beat Burns, then Jeffries will be forced out of the position he has taken- up, and made to fight him.