PRIZE FIGHTING
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.
JOHNSON AND WELLS.
AN UNEQUAL CONTEST.
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, September 23
Lord Lonsdale objects to the inequality of the proposed fight between Johnson, and Wells. The contest is, therefore, in his opinion, not bona fide. The fact that Johnson is to get £6OOO and Wells only £2OOO, is, he says, proof of the inequality. Lord Stanhope, in a letter to The Times, recalls a conversation with a Suva policeman, in which the latter stated that he had had more trouble in dealing with the coloured people since the Burns-Johnson fight. (Received Sept. 23, 10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, September 23. Sir John Robinson has declared through the newspapers in South Africa that he will attend the John-son-Wells fight. He hopes Wells will win. If Wells is beaten he will be willing to give £SOOO to any white man who can beat Johnson.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10432, 25 September 1911, Page 5
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154PRIZE FIGHTING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10432, 25 September 1911, Page 5
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