BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 16 January 1912, Page 7

BOXING

WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. JOHNSON WILL NOT VISIT AUSTRALIA. Jack Johnson has made a definite statement that he does not intend to visit Australia at present. . ' Press comments on Johnson's change of plans regarding the McVea match are to the effect that the promoter is likely to lose money by changing the venue of the fight: Sydney, January 6. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hugh D. Mcintosh received a tempting offer from a well-known Parisian syndicate to stage the boxing contest for the world's championship between Jack Johnson and' Sam McVea in Paris on the night following the race for the Grand Prix, and,, after due consideration, the promoter decided to change the venue of the contest. In.arriving.at .the determination, Mr. Mcintosh desires it to be understood that his decision in respect to the alteration was in no way influenced by the agitation which has arisen in opposition to the contest in Sydney. Naturally, the new arrangements will be acceptable to McVea, who, though more than satisfied at the treatment meted out to him by the boxing supporters of Australia, is naturally anxious that the contest which provides him with the opportunity of achieving liis one great desire will take I place in the land of his adoption. It is. not expected that Mr. Mcintosh will leave for Paris till April. When McVea and Langford met in Paris there was a record attendance established, and, as the championship contest now in view is fixed to take place at the Hippodrome—the largest building of its kind in the world—it is safe to prophecy that Mr. Mcintosh will handle the record boxing crowd. JOHNSON IN FORM. ! ANOTHER OFFER TO THE CHAMPION New York, January 4. The Athletic Club has telegraphed to Jack Johnson making him an offer of £3OOO for a ten-round bout with Joe Jeanette. According to the Chicago Tribune Johnson has not yet lost either his cleverness or his.speed. "That the champion has not lost his form," writes the Tribune, "is the opinion of those who saw him work out the other day. There is a little fat, but the speed for a man who had not worked for five weeks was amazing. "Joe Choynski and Kid Cutler are big men, but they appeared as novices in his hands, the negro bullying and tugging them around the ring. Johnson's judgment of distance and speed was superior to that of the other men." WOLGAST'S SERIOCK CONDITION. Los Angeles. January 4. The illness of A. D. Wolgast, the champion lightweight of the world, is likely to develop seriously. lie is now threatened with pneumonia, and his condition is so grave that only his wife and his manager are permitted to see him. McVEA v. LANGFORD. Sydney, January 5. Mr. Mcintosh lias succeeded in arranging for the return match between Sam McVea and Sam Langford to take place at the Stadium on Anniversary Day, January 2G.