BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2546, 6 July 1909, Page 2

BOXING.

JACK JOHNSON A POOR DRAW. ‘‘A MIGHTY UNPOPULAR CHAMPION.’\ After a series of extraordinary and most contradictory reports, would now appear as if the Heavyweight' Championship muddle. - will he cleared (says the New York correspondent, of London ‘‘Sporting LifoV).' In the first ■place, Sam Langford will keep his agreement with the' National Sporting Club, London. I have just heard lie. has agreed to meet Hague, but, in any case, he will cross the “pond.” Jaok Johnson will not keep any “agreement” made on his behalf by Sam Fitzpatrick, but will go over to fill a “theatrical” engagement. If lie does not prove a better drawing card than he was here in New York, his trip will be expensive to someone. He has signed to fight the middle-weight, Stanley Ketchell, in October in ’Frisco, and it is said the parties have posted £IOOO each to bind the match. He offered to fight Kaufman ten rounds in the meanwhile, but Billy Delaney’s protege suddenly found that he had a broken arm. All the same, '“Mistah Jolmsing” is a mighty unpopular champion nowadays. Ketchell’s manager,, Will us Britt, says they will follow Johnson to England, for fear he will try to escape the California bout.