BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 7

BOXING.

SIDNEY HATCH TOR KAUFMAN. A cablegram received in Sydney last '.vcek v-as to the effect that" Al'Kaufman had accepted an offer from Mr. H. D. il'lntosh of a match with "Bill" Lang or "Jack" Lester in Sydney next October, Kaufman's remuneration* to be ,£IOOO. Referring recently to his fight some weeks ago with "Jim" Flynn, Kaufman said:— "I didn't fight like I used to. I wasn't myself at all. I knocked this Flynn out at Los Anpelcs. and there's no doubt in my mind that I'm a better man nmv than I was then. It wasn't the real 'Al' Kaufman who toftk the big sleep. It was somebody else. When I was floored in the third round I lost my bearings, and couldn't .seem to get going again. But nobody can say I quit, for I fought him hard until I dropped. "Everybody knows that I can beat Flynn if I in right, and if we ever most again there'll be a far different result. This defeat won't discourage me, for I know that I can show a big improvement after I have trained a month or so. I don't want to take awar any credit from Flynn. but I can't get it through my head how a man like him could put me out. Hβ didn't box any better than at Los Angeles, but simply caught me unawares with a very lucky one. If ho will agree to meet me again he can take tho entire purse, regardless of the result." • Kaufman denies that somebody put something in his tea. Hp. declares that he didn't train at all for the bout, becausehe regarded Flynn as an easy mark.