BOXING.
v BURNS-JOHNSON FIGHT. THE POLICE INTERVENTION. A London cablegram on December 31 states that Tommy Burns, the defeated world’s champion boxer, has cabled to tho “Sporting Life” from Sydney that Johnson’s seconds influenced the police intervention in the fourteenth round. Burns says that lie was then strong, and he always had a chance, as Johnson Avas tiring. He Avas Avilling to again fight Johnson. The “Sportsman,” commenting on the cable, says that Burns’ challenge is considered a joke. The charge against Johnson’s seconds aa’us childish, moan, and contemptible, and was quite unfounded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2391, 5 January 1909, Page 3
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93BOXING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2391, 5 January 1909, Page 3
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