BOXING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 13

BOXING.

The Northern Boxing Association will have an evening at His Majesty’s Theatre on the 13th inst., when Jim Ross, of Auckland, will have a fifteen rounds’ go with Tim Tracey, of Wellington, for a purse of £5O and the professional light-weight championship of New Zealand. Ross has a good list of wins to his credit and he should give the present holder of the title a good go.

On the same date, Jim McCarthy, of Palmerston, and Blewden of Auckland, will box six rounds for a trophy. Both are clever amateurs. Two bantams, in Montague and Menzies, will have a go, while Fulton and Leslie will wrestle for the lightweight amateur championship. This is something like a programme and should pack the house.

BURNS’ MATCHES IN AUSTRALIA.

Bill Squires has signed an agreement to fight Tommy Burns, the world’s champion, in Sydney; and also Lang, if required. Squires sails for Australia on the Orient R.M. steamer Oruba, which left London on June 26 The Australian champion says the fight in Paris convinces him that, if he is in slightly better condition, he has a great chance of beating Burns. Bill Squires has cabled the Sydney Syndicate to lodge £4OO of the sum guaranteed him with the Sydney << Referee.*’ Lang is. to receive £6OO to meet Burns in an encounter of 20 rounds, one to win, and if the contest should take place in Sydney, Lang will receive £2*s Additional for. expenses,.

It is understood that Squires will receive £B5O for his appearance against Burns in Australia, plus travelling expenses from England (says the “Referee”). Burns is to receive £2OOO to come to Australia, and in addition £lOO 0 for each of two contests —£4500 in all, and £5OO for saloon passages for two. It has not yet been definitely settled which match will take place in Sydney and which in Melbourne, but there will be one contest in each city. Contracts have been signed by all three men, and it is understood that the syndicate’s contract with Burns binds him to fight in Australia only, and wholly under the syndicate’s management, and that when his series of matches is concluded he must leave Australia. Although there is no possibility of Johnson and Burns fighting here —owing to Burns drawing the colour line —Johnson will probably return to Australia on the offchance of Burns being beaten, in order to challenge the winner.