BOXING.
Burns Not Satisfied. Tommy Burns, the defeated world’s champion boxer, han cabled to the London •‘Sporting Life” from Sy<lney that Johnson’s seconds influenced the police intervention in the fourteenth round. ' Burns says that he was then strong, and he always had a chance, as Johnson was tiring, fie was willing to again light Johnson. . . The “Sportsman.” commenting on the cable, says that Burns 5 challenge is confe ide red a joke. The charge against Johnson's. seconds was childish, mean, and contemptible, and was quite unfounded. Burns Visiting New Zealand. The Wellington Boxing Association Las arranged fur Tommy Burns, the exchampion of the world, to visit New Zealand.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 1, 6 January 1909, Page 11
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108BOXING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 1, 6 January 1909, Page 11
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