BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 18, 15 July 1911, Page 7

BOXING

ANOTHER JACK JOHNSON. Melbourne, June 28. Another Jack Johnson has arisen. He is a seaman by profession and a pugilist by instinct. He met another meniber of the clan, Edwin Johnson, in Russell street, and swept upon him even a< their illustrious namesake swept upon Jeffries at Reno. For a time a third Johnson—a hardy Viking, who calls himself Vonson -was acting as referee. Rut .lack swung it so vigorously on Edwin that Edwin was forced to flee, and the Norseman followed. Constable MeLeod was the next to appear on the scenp, and the moment Jack Johnson noticed nim he handed out a blow containing all the raw material for a cauliflower ear. Constable MeLeod closed with the fighter, who promptly seized his ankle and caused him to perform some Catherine-wheel evolutions. MeLeod picked himself up and threw Johnson. Then two more policemen came along, and for a few minutes the landscape looked like a picture of primaeval chaos painted by a post-impres-sionist. Eventually Jack Johnson was towed off to the watchhouse, and later was fined altogether .£5. Edwin was fined £3, but Jan, the referee, is understood to have sailed for Guam in ballast.

JOHNSON BROKE. CHARITY MATCH BEING ARRANGED. New York, July 0. v Jack Johnson's coin is l.ow. A cable to American papers from London states that the big black is prepared to take on practically anybody, and that Manager Flanagan is promoting a fight between the champion and .Petty-officer Cnrran. It is not seriously suggested that the sailor aspires to the championship, but it is supposed that the match is wanted by Johnson to replenish his sadly-dcplct-ed purse. The promoter thinks that Curran has a chance, because, lie says, the negro is soft with good living. Johnson has been having a tip-top Coronation time, and boasts that he has eaten and drunk more in the last few days than during any other period of his life. He still speaks bitterly of the days that he spent in ga»l for auto-speeding, and reckons that the spell was the worst on record. He compares his holiday in London with the days of incarceration in the cells. When he was asked by an interviewer whether gaol wa.s not a good training for a pugilist, he replied, "Sonny, have you ever been there? Don't talk about it. Give me a motor car and oysters." It is stated that the Johnson-Cnvran battle will take place at Dublin in August while the big horse show is on. Jim and Mrs. Jeffries were also in Ixmdon during the Coronation festivities, and Mrs. Jeffries is highly incensed with her husband. She states that all