BOXING.

West Coast Times, 27 June 1912, Page 1

BOXING.

I K:I |'l JNt: IN PARIS.

I PER PHESB ASSOCIATION. —COI'VKIGH'I j

PARIS, dune 2d

At Uio fill!it :it Diopps there were ■IOOO spectators present, including many women, who were wild with excitement.

Doca nip’s manager, seized Carpenties round the waist. '1 ho boxer was enraged and fought to free himself. When Carpontier was Forced oat of the, ring a Inirl'y figure seized Decamps and threw him over the ropes among the spectators. .Later on, Kvorenden refused to stop fighting, whereupon Jiaitrou, the powerfully built referee, lifted him and twice flung him to the hoards, ’lbis action caused a sensation.

The officials am! boxeri’ friends poured into the ring and about thirty ’roc lights commenced. There was pandemonium in the hulking and the gendarmes had to he reinforced.

The festivals broke up in confusion

THL" WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. RELIABLE WORD RE JOHNSON. WHAT WE DO WANT TO KNOW RE JOHNSON AND FLYNN. Fixture: July 4—World’s Championship, Johnson v. Flynn, Las Vegas, ..Mexico. As the date of the world’s championship draws nearer—it is now no further off than to-day week—so dors the news from the training camps in fai-away has Vegas, Mexico, become more concentrated on the Firm shown by tho two participants in the, big affair, and correspondingly loss devoted to rumours as to the “ tipping el the result by the more or loss prejudiced big ir.cn of tiro sport.

Ami this is what everyday follower or the gai ee wants. lie wonts loots rather than theories. lie wonts figures ns to the men’s weights, and no.ws as-to their condition, rather than paragraphs as to their idiosyncvacios and hobbies. That Johnson has been spending spare time eating up space in his automobiles, and assorted dishes of chicken in his meal times, or that Flinn finds relaxation in playing ping-pong, or reading Bernard Shaw, or playing the Jew’s harp, or however the stalwart fireman iioin I'nehlo dues to while away his leisure hours, may be interesting enough, hue what is more acceptable now is news as to whether the two gladiators are reducing their waist lines and how they are preparing themsel-

ves in general for the affray. JOHNSON’S "WEIGHT DOWN TO lost nib. For this news wo “down under” are indebted to the Independent Cable which supplies Sydney regu--1 lary with the latest intelligence “from the front.” From many reports to hand through this agency, have been culled the following cablegrams received last week as bearivore diorctly on those matters.

LAS VEGAS, June 12. The work of preparing for the battle between Johnson and Flynn on Independence Day is going on apace. Both boxers have increased their daily exorcise. Their road runs have been lengthened and their sparring increased to 15 rounds a day. The result is that there is a noticeable reduction in the smo of each of thn men. Johnson now weighs List. IHh., and Flynn list. 21b. The referee will ho selected as soon as Johnson has chosen from a long list of eligihles that has been submitted to him.‘‘Professor” Burns is delighted with tl io champion’s condition, and says that ho will lie faster than ever when ho meets Flynn. So it will be seen that the champion is within a stone of his best fighting weight of two years ago, and that Flynn has pretty well reached bedrod; in this respect, too. THE PICTURESQUE CORBETT IN CHARGE OF FLYNN’S CAMP. Other reports shew that “Jim” Corbett is in charge of Flynn’s camp, and that lie claims to be working a great improvement in the challenger’s ring craft and “lino work.” Unfortunately, one heard much of the same sort of thing from the ‘Pompadour ’ during Ids brief authority over the Jeffries minago at Reno, and how much his optimism was justified by the results on that occasion is all to) well known. ‘The Johnson “ charge-d’-A(fairs appeal's!:) bo the old negro boxer-wrest-ler “Farmer” Bums, likewise a conspicuous figure at Reno, and it is apparently bo to whom the Idle “ Profcfsor” is given in the above-quoted

cablegram. “I’M; |R)() GOOD ! ! ”

At tho same lime the “puff” paragraph is nut entirely conspicuous by its absence. Samples arc. coming over Ihi wire, and, although they do not reach the heights (or depths) of those handed out In the public regarding tin; fateful Fourth of July two years ago, they show that those responsible are making a praiseworthy elfort to stimulate public interest. Tho following purporting to come from the champion himself, is a fair example:—

VANCOUVER, Juno 15

Johnson says: “I asn ton good for any other man in the world. No one is left for me to lick. After July 4, 1 will meet the rwt, white black, or him hopes, at the rate of one per week. This means Langford, too ; hot 1 must have a side wager posted. I am feeling line, and really believe 1 eonld put Balaer, At’Carthy. .Kaufmann, Flynn and Langford in the ring and whip the bunch without exerting nn self.”

IN DESPERATE STRAITS.

“Aline was a .serious ease. 1 suffered too long from Indigestion before I found relief,” said a strong man to a friend one day. “At last I was willing to try every thin < e and anything that was suggested to me. Someone said that one tiling was good—someone else said another, and 1 tried almost everything without result until at last—” “ You gave up hope,” said the friend, “ 1 gave up hope,” said the strong man. “ lint one day a sympathiser placed in my hand a box of Baxter's compound Quinine Fills. ‘ You’re, the last I’m going to try,’ 1 said, and I look the pills donhtingly. And they were the last—Baxter’s Compmind Quinine Pills cured mo. I stuck to those pills when I found them effective, ami hero 1 unr—cured ! They’re only Is 6tl at chemists and stores, and 1 wouldn’t he without Baxter’s Silver Coated Quinine Pills for anything. 1 always carry them with mo.”