Jim Griffin Again Snuffed Out.

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 3

Jim Griffin Again Snuffed Out.

Writing' fova Wellington friend -be: fore meeting Nelson m the hempen, ring, Jim 'Griffin, had this to say :— I "Before you/ get this my fight with Nelson , will, be over. lam m the best of helath and m real good trim. The hot' weather which we have here has: brought me down to middleweight. I had the bad luck to have the. decision given against me with Costa. I was robbed, as I won the fight all the way. He save his weight as list 2R> : , .but he was-much heavier than I was . .I ' have tried .to get him to fight me again, but he is afraid, and. will 'not make a match. Tommy Jones asked me to -write , -to you about you .getting him a nxatch with Godfrey, r I think he 'would-; be sure to beat- Godfrey. I won over Sterling and. Q'uigley easily and am very confident.of beating Nelson." ,■ • •■■•; ;. ;' As events "proved the Maoriiander went ' under, .to Nelson m the.thirteenth-, round after a s splendid battle! The "Sportsman" describes the concluding round m this strain :— "The" thirteenth saw the finish. Just ' ak the., gpds . hsd ; made up" their minds j^aL^-^ieyi'^y^uld see no gore things became, sudden. Griffin's .. crowd of &4'V;iJ?£rs had'been urging him' to !'s6 n m : 'and 'fight all along and at last he paid, /attention to their behests.. .'.He kr ought,; left and right to play on the enemy.. : It war* a disastrous policy.Scarcely had:. lie brought the right hand -, guard' down than Nelson sent over right swing, which connected' fair on his left jaw and down the hero of Noo Zillandwent. ,He stayed for eight while the crowd rose m in 1 tense excitement to see how meitters ' fared. Coming up, again his right guard went to. its old place,' but Nelson shot out a left to the jaw. Down went Jim. Day/son got m the ring to do. the count. It was, all over — the count and Jim. It was a splendid fight, and while" the big end of the purse went to Nelson honors were even. Had it not been for the urging oi his seconds and the cries of the crowd Griffin would have weathered the : twenty rounds with a chance of landing his knock-out blow." '* Bob Rollo, who is teaching them the noble art at so much a time or . on weekly or monthly terms; as v is-' most convenient for pupils, reckons on haying a few "dead birds" for the local championship competitions m June. Bob's instruction school is located at 174 Lambton Quay, and the support he : has already received ,is.a guarantee that, if the venturjs.'is ■carried but on , the right lines, 'the •financial results will, to.him, be most satisfactory. During their stay m Smelbourne the Fijian cricketers were entertained by the local fire brigade's. In the gymnasium the great heavy-weight fireman, Waldie, put on the boxing gloves with Meliti, who promptly knocked out the white man, to the utter astonishment of the firemen. The niggers were correspondingly jubilant.