THE JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 864, 12 July 1910, Page 3

THE JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

New York, July 9

Numbers of adoring negroes, unable to gain an opportunity of shaking hands with Johnson on his arrival in Chicago after his victory, kissed and stroked his motor cai

Tew York, July 8

Some 01. he newspapers state that Jeffries ’’l probably lose the sight of ont eas a result of the punishment inflicted by Johnson in the recent fight. - i London, July 9.

There is a growing feeling here against the exhibition of the kinematograph pictures of the JohnsonJeffries fight. At a meeting of the London County Council the Rev- Scott Lidgett (alderman, and editor of the Methodist Times) gave notice of a resolution notifying all music halls and kinematograph theatres that the pictures are undesirable. New York, July 8.

The syndicate which intends the exploitation of the JeffriesJohnson biograph pictures declare that they will not attempt to force the pictures on communities legislating against them, and promise to permanently shelve the pictures if popular sentiment is adverse to them. Cape Town, July 8. The Union Government has given an instruction to the police to prohibit the exhibition of the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures in South Africa.

New York, July xo. Johnson has banked ,£22,000 at Chicago. He gave from ,£SO to ,£l5O each to eight men who had befriended him years ago at Galveston.