Johnson-Jeffries Fight.

Opunake Times, Volume XXX, Issue 1648, 24 June 1910, Page 2

Johnson-Jeffries Fight.

GOLDEN FLEECE. Pagiliatio statisticians estimate' that every time Jeffries sends one;/of his mighty blows across he expends no less tban 2 \ horse-power, and in the course of a single three-minute round this amounts to about 180 h.p. Johnson expends a similar amount of energy in the same period. In a particularly active roand these figures might be increased, but, taking one round with another, 180 hp. represents about the average amount of energy generated by eaoh of the boxers. Assuming that the contest lasts forty-five rounds, this would make a total of 5850 h.p. expended by eaoh boxer, or a total amount of over 11,700 h.p. Ooming to the expenditure on the match, the figures given are staggering, no less a sum than £20,000,000 being the amount that will be spent directly or indirectly. The purse for which the "big fellows" will oontend is £20,000. From 50,000 to 100,000 persons will travel to where the battle will take place. In hotel bills, railway fares, and other expenses, it is estimated that these visitors will spend at least £600,000, an average of £6 ahe id. In bets, £1,000,000 will change hands. On the day of the match every great newspaper in the United States will have representatives at tbe ringside. There will be elaborate bulletin services, and hundreds of thousands of words will go over the wires and the cables to all parts of the world. Another million pounds will barely cover the cost of teliing the balance of those interested, and not at the ringside, the result of the battle.

The gate receipts will undoubtedly amount to £BO,OOO. The price of the seats has been fixed at from £1 to £lO a-piece. There is, too, the money which will be spent on newspapers all over the world on that day. Perhaps £400,000 as a . figure is not excessive. Here we have more than £4,000,000 already. The greatest money be the moviog picture companies,. They are reported to have paid £40,000 for the privilege of taking films of the battle. , The Johnson-Jeffries fight will take place on the gold field, Nevada, a local magnate guaranteeing 120,000 dollars. Training quarters for Johnson and Jeffries have been aeoured at Reno.