BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 9

BOXING.

(Br Mercury.)

■ The following is from our latest Vancouver excimngos:— - ■ "Toronto, January 17. —Jack Johnston, .the coloured' heavy-weight, who. has challenged Tommy Bums for tho. Chajiipionslup .of ,tho World, caught i Tartar at the Star Theatre, when, in an inter-sllow workout-, -ha took, on Day, the giant Scotchman,; who holds the. Canadian amateur , heavy-weight "boxing championship. Day want right at tho ooloiired man, and mixed it'up so vigorously that Sam Pitapat-rick, who'niariages Jackson, pulled tho bell after 45 '.seconds of, milling. Day slammed Mistah Johnston . with both hands until the bell . called .a ; halt..\

"In tho second they'stood off; and Johnston jabbed Day a bit, but Day was willing, and tho black man didn't get""away with nioro than tho law allows." . .

On January 6; Tommy Burns was matched against Jem Roche, of Wexford, Ireland, for £500 a-side, and a purse of £1500 offered by Mr. Richard Crocker' and three. Irish "sports." Tho match,'which is of twonty rounds, is fixed for March 17, at Dublin. Where tho gato 'money is-to come from is the wonder, for on all form it is 100 to 1 on Burns winning the fight as ho likes, remarks, a London writer.

Tho following cablegram was received-last -Wednesday week: — - . , _ "London, Tuesday Evening.—At. tho National Sporting Club to-day, Jim Driscoll, of Cardiff, beat Charley Griffin, of Now Zealand, in a match for the Feather-weight Championship. £100 aside, and a purso given by t-ho Club. ,r

"Griffin was disqualified intho fifteenth round for' butting, after being cautioned threo times."

Tho'match'was for £200 a-sido, and Griffin trained in tho land o' cakes, where a gymnasium had been specially fitted up for him by his backor—Conjurer Carlton. A man who makes an elfort to keep within tho laws is generally a man who seeks to evade them—in spirit, if not in letter.— "Japan Times," Toaio.