BOXING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9463, 4 June 1909, Page 5

BOXING.

JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON. NEGRO DANCES WITH JOY, London, April 33. An announcement was made in New Tt rk on Tuesday that Jeffriea had ; g:.'o i to meet Johnson. Both uiiu now appearing at local music bails. Jeffries receiving £SOO a week and Johnson £4OO. The world’s unbeaten champion’s four years on a Californian tom has made him look more-like a fit subject for a circus than a prize-ring. Two months ago he weighed SOst; now he scales 17st. He couldn't box one round without being breathless, but he is now getting back to his old form, and says that by the end of the year, after some weeks at German' spaa and giving the finishing couches to his training in California, he will be ready to put on the glove* to Johnson or anyone else. The nego, when interviewed, danced with joy. “Well,” he said, “surely I am tickled to death at th* news. I fight Ketohell in October, and when I have knocked his ? head

off, Jeff and yours truly will hook up. You can hank on my putting him to sleep. He was a wonder once, but bis oay is past. Every pitcher has gone to the well once too often, and Jeffries will take Ms lasi trip, to the watering place when he enters the ring with me.”