BOXING.
DOMINION COUNCIL .MEETS. tux Teleerann.— Vttsa Association,! Chrlstohurch, April 21. Mr. L. P. Cookery, chairman of the Westport Sports Club, attended tho last meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Council ,to explain the position in regard to the sport in his district. The council,, after discussion, decided to send Mr.' C. T. Aschman to Westport and Grcymoutli to investigate and report. ...• -■■'.
The Auckland Association reported having arranged September 1, 2, and- 3 for tho Australasian championships, hut the council decided to request that alternative dates be arranged, . in the event of 'the first week in Septembor not suiting the. Australians. - A vote taken by mail regarding the bantam weight limit favoured Bst. 21b.,' and a' ,voto on tho amount of subscriptions favoured the minimum of :£3, with a maximum of £10.
It was decided to. take a vote of the Jtssooiatiori on the appointment of a resident representative in Australia. The present committee of tho council has been re-elected for tho ensuing year. . . ......
AIEERICAN NOTES, The following items are taken from- the new Australian cable service:— ■ ."' San Francisco, April 12. The ringsiders opine that cither Burns has gone back in his fighting or that Lang has improved, and they also eay tliat if tho latter is the case Lang .have reckoned with when ho comes to America. Tho possibility of a second match botweon tho two is being eacerlv awaited.
With respect to the contest between Burns and Langford, recently mooted, it is now stated that. it ■ was' not the" intention of the Mission Club of San Francisco, of which Sid Hester is one of the principals, to guarantee Burns .£SOOO, win, lose, or draw. The promoters say that their idea ; iras to-allow the principals to fix the division of the stake. / San Francisco, April 11. ■ In sporting circles the query as to whether Jeffries would get into condition is now being reversed, and is being applied with respect to Johnson. The latter expresses annoyance at. the manner in which Jeffries has been figuring in the press.'
'•° New York, April 12. . Much amusemont has been aroused by the announcement that Jim Sharkey has issued !a challenge to tho winner of' the big fight between Jeffries and Johnson. ■ i: ■___________
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100422.2.109
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
369BOXING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in