BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 124, 12 October 1912, Page 7

BOXING.

JOHNSON SUBSIDES ENTIRELY. Jack Johnson seems to have subsided entirely since the New York Commissioners refused to allow him -to box in the big city (writes W. W. Naughton, special commissioner to Sydney Referee in America). He has turned a deaf ear to offers made him by Philadelphia ■ and Cirieinnati'pfoinoters, and lias made iflo reply to the Paris invitation to engage in a. 30-round bout with Joe Jeanette on French soil. I hardly think, however, that Jack will remain silent much longer, and I am' wondering what the nature of his next declaration will be. I have an idea it will bo to the effect that he has definitely decided to go to Australia. It is surprising to note how little adverse comment the action of the New York Boxing Commissioners caused. T.t seemed, indeed, as if the majority of the sport writers did not look for anything insufferably brutal when Johnson and : Jeanette got together. More than one : critic remarked sneeringly that Jos and Jack should have been permitted to hold their eighth re-union. One scribe said i that at the best the public might have ) looked for a slap-stick alignment between the two colorfrd cracks, while another thought that Johnson might hold on l from bell to bell, as the pictures of the ! Las. Vegas contest showed him to have I done, with Flynn. [ "And one thousand dollars a minute is too much' to nay a man for a display of masterly inactivity," remarked the writer in question. Judging from what has been said since t!:e Commissioners squelched the arrangements, there seems to have been no particular clamor for a glimpse of Johnson and Jeanette in action in New York. And. such being the case, the McMahon Brothers are probably exchanging handgrips stealthily and felicitating themselves on being rid of the attraction. Meanwhile, it is currently reported tiiat the Commissioners are going a step further in the work of reform, and that before long a rule will be framed virion will forbid the matching of white men and colored in the eastern metropolis. While such a move has been talked of for :i long time, it is understood that Joe Jeanette is mainly responsible for matters being brought to. a crii;is in the connection.