AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10168, 18 February 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

JOHNSON-JEFFRIES BATTLE

TOWN HALL ON MONDAY. , Some idea of tlie extraordinary interest taken in the fight between-John-son and Jeffries .Will be gained' front; the following facts regarding the space 1 devoted to the report of the contest by the press of America as compared with" their treatment of other events of world-wide interest. The total space allowed in the four leading New York journals to the battle of Gettysberg, the most sensational event in the American Civil War, and in which .40,000 Avere killed and woiinded, was twenty-eight columns. This is less than one-fourth the 115 columns devoted to the fistic encounter at RenoTh"e assassination of President Lincoln, | one of the most stiring tragedies of modern times, was dealt with approximately at the same length. The, seven New York newspapers printed from three to four pages concerning the destruction of the Spanish Fleet by Admiral Dewey, at the Battle of i Manilla, in 1898, and a similar display was made of the story of the wiping out of Admiral Cerevera's fleet off Santiago. When Colonel Roosevelt made his famous assault on San Jiuth* hill with his roiigh "riders, each" of these newspapers described the engagement in the spp.ee of three pages. recently, when intlie Sea of Japan Admiral Togo annihilated the Russian navy, mider, • .Boshestv;vis;k£, N the achievement was recognised as'-vnn of the greatest in the history of naval engagements, yet the New York o <'iconsidered from four to six columns sufficient. In comp;:risi \ of cost, it is interesting to note that the cost of the cable message from Jap • - was £2OOO, whilst the transmission of the. details of the Johnson-Jeffries meeting overland wires alone was £I2OO- The exhibition of the g*eat fight pictures in Masterton *.vill tale place on Monday evening next, aider the direction of McMahon Bros., who with spirited enterprise have pai' ; a big price for the sole Dominion npht* —a price said to be far and away ahead of anything hitherto expended upon a living picture.subject. The first portion of the programme w'U be devcted to a new and charming sene> of exok'siye picture surorises. Seats may be leservediat Miss Biyes, where the box plan is now open. Greytown will be visited on Tuesday night.