BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 5

BOXING.

IS JOHNSON COMING OUT? WHAT HE IS ASKING. By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-CoDyrlEttt Chicago, August 9. Alderman. A. Ij. Tenrncy said to-night that "Jack" .Johnson had agreed to fight Langford and M'Vca in Australia. Johnson told Mr. Hugh M'lntosh's representatives that tho offer of dO.OOO dollars would be acceptable if ho were given 5000 dollars for training expenses and three return tickets from Australia, aud if 10,000 dollars were deposited with Tearney. Johnson refused to affirm tho report. He added he would enter tho ring as a 'personal favour to Tcarncy. "TOMMY" BURNS IN ACTION. KNOCKS EICKABD OUT. Vancouver, August 9. Fighting at Saskatoon last Thursday, "Tommy" Burns, ex-champion of the world, defeated "Bill" Bickard in tho sixth round of a fifteen-round bout. Burns weighed 185 pounds aud Bickard 205 pounds. Burns played with his man until the sixth round. Then he knocked hini down for nine seconds and again for eight, and Sheriff Calder stopped tho contest, awarding the decision to Burns. Bickard did not show even second-rate form. MAXWELL-TOXMEET HANAN. . Some interest has been shown in regard to wlnt steps tho Boxing Association would tako in regard to the tournament set down for Wednesday last, and prstponed on account of ono of the principals being unable to tako part. Officials of the association have lost no time, and as Murphy was found to bo unlikely to bo lit to box for some weeks, Maxwell, of New Plymouth, has been substituted in his place to meet Hannan on Friday next. ; In sccuririg an exponent of Maxwell's I class at short notico tho association are to be congratulated, as ho is undoubtedly in tho first flight of light-weights of the Dominion, and makes a worthy opponent of the visitor from Australia. Particulars regarding box plan and ticket-holders will be found in our advertising columns,