Boxing.

Opunake Times, Volume XXX, Issue 1647, 21 June 1910, Page 4

Boxing.

San Francisco, Jun 6 2. Jim Jeffries is now in magnificent condition, and, barring accidents, will enter the ring on Independence Day in perfeot trim.' Diseussing the fight, Governor Gillet declared that it was simply a scheme to make money oat of the credulity of the public. "Anybody with the least bit of sense," said the Governor, "knows that the whites will not allow Johnson or any other negro to retain the championship. Johnson knows that, 10 he has agreed to lay it down for money." Offended at certain remarks made recently respecting his courage by Jim Corbett, -who is attached to Jeffries' training camp as sparring. partner, Jaok Johnson has issued a challenge to the ex-heavyweight champion to meet him in a boxing matoh. In bis statement to the newspapers the colored champion expressed a willingness to meet Corbet at any time prior to the big match, and to devote the proceeds of the entertainment to charity. Mr H. D.Molntosb, Tommy Burns, Bob Fitzsimmons and Bill Laog have left Sydney tinder the influence of that huge lodestone now existing in San Francisco, and wbioh for many months turned the eyes and minds of the civilised world towards the city of the Golden Gate, and is attracting people of all olasses, oreeds and colors to that spot. I refer to the approaching battle for the heavy-weight championship of the world between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson, wbioh takes place on July 4th next. Tommy Burns' latest American mail brought an offer of £2OO from the New York World proprietary for an exclusive report of the JohnsonJeffries fight, with which Tommy Bnrns closed at once—signing the contract and posting it back forthwith. It will be remembered that a similar offer was made to, and accepted by Bob Fitzsimmons a month or two ago, and it came from the same quarter. New Yoek, June 16. Governor Gillette states that prize fights are criminal, but sparring exhibitions are lawful. He describes a prize fight as a contest where there is expectation of a reward, coupled with the infliction of some degree of bodily harm. Tex Bickard replied that if Governor Gillette opposes the fight, he will immediately take the fight to Salt Lake City or one of the Nevada cities. The principals have agreed to sell the moving pictures for £30,000, the fighters taking £IO,OOO apiece, and Bickards and Gleason the remaining £IO,OOO. , Rickards asserts that the buyers have not stipulated for the length of the match. The sum of £30,000 will be paid if the match only occupies a single round.