BOXING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13424, 11 July 1911, Page 6

BOXING.

JOHNSON BROKE. CHARITY MATCH BEING ARRANGED. PUGILISTS AT THE CORONATION. THE BLACK CARICATURED. NEW YORK, July 7. Jack Johnson’s coin is low. A cable to American papers from London states that the big black is prepared to take on practically anybody, and that Manager Flanagan is promoting a fight between the champion and Petty Officer Curran. It is not seriously suggested that the sailor aspires to the championship, but at is supposed that the match is wanted by Johnson to replenish his sadly-depleted purse The promoter thinks that Curran has a chance, because, he says, the negro is soft with good living. Johnson has been having, a tip-top Coronation time, and boasts that he has eaten and drunk more in the last few days than during any other period of his life. He still speaks bitterly of the days that he spent in gaol for autospeeding, and reckons that that spell was the worst on record. He compares his holiday in London with the days of incarceration in the cells. When he was asked by an interviewer whether gaol was not a good training for a pugilist he replied, “Sonny, have you ever been there? Don’t talk about it. Give me a motor-car and oysters.” It is stated that the Johnson-Curran battle will take place at Dublin in August while the big Horse Show is on. Jim and Mrs Jeffries were also in London during the Coronation festivities, and Mrs Jeffries is highly incensed with her husband She states that all the time lie was there he simply slept and snored in an obscure London hotel, and she had to find her own way about to see the sights. Jack Johnson, she remarks, saw all the fun. He was giddily attired, turning out in a variety of glad suits of clothes, and he was the admiration of the populace. The comic papers in London cartooned him week by week, the theme of one scries of pictures being “All courts look alike to,. Jack.” This was a parody on “All Coons Look Alike to Me,” arid the man who beat Burns was pictured as appearing before Judges and Magistrates in various countries for all sorts of offences, from exceeding the speed limit to expectorating on,the sidewalk. Ho was even made to appear as one of the Camorrist prisoners at the Yiterbo trial—in coniedy, of course—and was depicted throwing his set 'of false teeth at the foreman of the jury.