BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 276, 18 May 1912, Page 7

BOXING

it is on the cards that Langford and Tommy Burns will clash for a purse of £7OOO. The fight, it is understood, will be brought off in Alberta, Canada. Sam McVea and his brother black, Langford, will meet again shortly, the former's injured finger having mended, and the threatened legal proceedings by Mcintosh will not eventuate, it was supposed that McVea did not like the job of again facing Langford, and made the excuse that he was maimed. He entered into a contract to take part in a specified number of bouts, and had he refused to go on, of course the other party to the agreement would have had ground for an action for damages. All now has, however, been settled. It is reported that Bob Fitzsimmons, the Maorilander, who won both the middle and heavy-weight championships of the world from Jack Dempsey and .Jim Corbett respectively, and finally lost the latter title to gigantic Jim Jeffries, is tutoring his son to become a worldbeater. It is stated that the boy is 16 years old, stands 6ft, and scales list 61b. This must be Rose Julian's (Bob's second wife) son, for it is much more than 16 years since Bob's Sydney wife and two children left Sydney to join the Timarusian wonder in America, and it is more than 16 years since Fitz. and Martin Julian changed wife and sister, and yet the writer never heard that the beautiful, acrobat ever bore Bob a child. Maybe, the cable man mis-states the age of the lad (and both height and poundage point to the possibility of this theory), and it is the little Sydney native who used to run about the streets of Ultimo who is 1 referred to. i Tommy Burns is really funny. His , craving for the limelight appears to overpower any sense he may possess of • the eternal fitness of things. As he is done as a boxer, he is now taking the centre, of the stage as a singer, and t doubtless the next startler he will send . along will be a challenge to sing Jack ' Johnson for (5(5,000 dollars and the title of champion warbler of the ring. If Noah really thinks he can sing for nuts, Sam McVea can bo backed against him for all kinds of money. For Sam has a really splendid light baritone, and knows how to use it, too. In the name of the saints let us have a respite from Tommy Burns and his hot air.