BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 7

BOXING.

TUM.UY BURNS WILL TOUR. j San l'nwK'i:s('o_, March 4. Tommy Burns has stated at Calgary, where lie is in business, that he will wake a tour of the world, meeting boxer:-. lirst in Ireland and hrauee. unless a mateii ean be fixed up for him cither with Bombardier Wells or Luther Mc-Carty. lie will travel under Larry Keating, who declares that at least .CbO,OW) c.iu | be made out of such a trip. A telegram has been sent to the sporting editor of a Now York paper, in which Hunts oilers to meet. McCarty for a side bet of £''2ooo. Johnny Dundee, the Italian featheiweinht, leaves to-day for Los Angeles, where be. will light Tommy Kilbauc 20 rounds on April 13. Kddie Campi, of San Francisco, ami j 1- l'ankie Burns, of ."Jersey City, have been , matched for a 20-rounds mill at Vernon oil March ■:>!>. "Both men have posted . XiW forfeit. | Ad. Wolgast and Harlem Tommy Mur- j illiv will light at San Francisco again if j (he plans of Promoter Jim tollioth beui | ' fruit, Murphy' luvs practically accepted ,

the terms ofiored, the only proviso lie makes being that he shall get as much: as Wolgast. In an interview that Wolgast had with Coffroth, the latter asked if a contest could be fixed up with Rivers instead, and Cofforth replied that, he would have to see Rivers. . There is a liiteli in the negotiations ifor the match between Freddie Welsh and 3 oung Jack O'Brien. ' A cable was received in Vancouver to-day in which Ivelsh declared that he would not, enter the ring unless he. was guaranteed £1300,. win, lose or draw. O'Brien's brother re-' . plied that Jack had left for England, an<T if Welsh climbed out Matt Wells or Engine Meliegan would qualify at thesame weight. It is evident that Welsh is getting the ■fighter's habit of "watching the coin." Twelve-round bouts have been legalised in Montana State. Ten per cent, of the revenue from eaeh fight will go to the State, and the boxing will be un- | <ler the direction of a State Commission. SAM LAX<!FORD A WHITE MAX. Mr. .T. Jerrod, who was a passenger on the Wyreema to Brisbane, by which boat Sam Langford also travelled, writes as \ follows to the Referee:—"On behalf of the second-class passengers I have been asked to drop you a line re the following: When a day out from Sydney a stowaway was discovered —some pool* chap down 011 his luck—and the authorities threatened to 'send him along,' when Sajn Langford came to light with his fare, Sis fid, without a murmur, or putting it to music, and I reckon he deserves a word. He is 110 friend of mine, or any of the other passengers, but he must j be a 'wjiite man.'" 1 ;1 ' ' I