THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 993, 18 March 1909, Page 11

THE BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP.

The latest in connection with the world’s boxing championship are bids from Melbourne for the next match, always provided Jeffries is Johnson’s opponent (says the “Referee’).

Mr. Wren offered Jeffries £lO,OOO to fight Johnson in Australia, win, lose, or draw. What Johnson is to get, or where he comes in, has not transpired. Mr. Wren announces he has secured first option respecting Jeffries’ services in the event of the retired champion consenting to meet Jack Johnson. The option Mr. Wren has obtained is that if a very tempting offer is made to Jeffries in other quarters, he will have an opportunity of making a still better one. Mr. Sam Aden, a member of the Victorian ring, offered a purse of £15,000 for a match in Australia between Johnson and Jeffries. This was just after Johnson won the championship from Tommy Burns at Sydney. Mr. Allen, when asked the other day whether his offer still held good, replied that at present he did not know how he exactly stood in the matter. Johnson had been a party with him to the offer, being exceedingly anxious to meet Jeffries. When Johnson reaches the home of his mother at Galveston, Texas, U.S.A., he wili send a cable message to him (Mr. Allen).

Mr. H. D. Mclntosh has sold the French rights of the pictures of the Burns-Johnson fight for £5OOO. The British rights will yield £12,000. Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger, the principal theatrical proprietors in America, have offered Mr. Mclntosh £50,000 for all the American cinematograph rights. So that it appears Mr. Mclntosh has struck a particularly auriferous vein.