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THE BOXING WORLD:
A Referee's Decision at Tonypandy. pay
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technically wrong. In this age of non-recognition of right unless it is right according to the com mon law, it is good to see refereer On and after April at the Western right actually, and if we can tol-Branch Post Office (attuated in the old erate the constant olincher and Harbour Office in rear of the Western Ataka
Market North Block) will be open daily The great question of the not object to his victory is should from 7 a.m. to 9.30 pm: an week days and welter-weight belt is being cleared be able much more easily to tol-from 8 am to 9 a.m. and 6 pm to 9.30 up without the nid of the holder. erste a decision that is not aboy-p.m. on Sundays and Holidays for the transaction of postal business o.g, sale of Tom M'Cormick hes beaten suspicion so far as the letter of Johnny Summers again, and done the law is concerned, but which that do thoroughly that we cannot has in its favour good common think, whatever the decision of eenre. the National Sporting Club may be that the holder of the Lonsdale belt is the best wolter-weight champion that Great Britain cap produce, writes Corinthian, in the Sporting Chronicle of February
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That admirable little fellow ex-Lance Corporal Miller, of the Royal North Lancashire Regimen was fortunate in getting the verdiot over Barry Sterling at tl: Singapore on Sunday the 29th inst, at National Sporting Club last Mon..le due to arrive here on Thursday.
the 2nd April at 3 p.m. In my mind, there has never day. Miller's boxing makes him been a doubt concerning the ex- a favourite, for he oires for no cellence of 'Cormick, and I have body, and just boxes with a smile received a letter frm a corres upon his face whether he is get pondent, who (before Percy ting a hiding or winning, Still that Jones's defeat) wrote some very fact, excellent though it is to good-sense stuff about_both contemplato, should act be allow
Cormick and Jo es. Punched to weigh in the mind of the Vnunt, who writes from Liverpool, refereo, and even though Miller
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is the correspondent, and be still punched harder than Sterling. Siberian. Austria, 2nd April. ssems to think that Basham will he did not punch so frequently, German, P. Alice, 2nd April. beat M'Cormick. This crmand, me a consequence, lost on munication is the one thing that points, though the referee thought makes me afraid about the general |otherwise. supremacy of M'Cormick. Thave: not seen Basham.
Sterling's boxing leoked par
He was ticularly good to me. quick in avoidance, and scarcely over missed a chance of jabbing
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A Great Joke. While some people over here Silencing the Critics. are shouting for a Bard of Con That was MCormick's position trol; boxing France has got one- after he had won at the first the Fronel Boxing Federation, attempt at the National Sporting which is the one great scream of Straits, Club, and now be had done all the b xing world. Surely there that is possible to silence his has rever been anything quite so half-hearted critics who talked funny as their latest effort; which and wrote as if the delivery of a is to accept Kid "M'Coy'e chal big punch was all in boxing. leng to Sim Langford for the If that were so, Iron Hague would title of the world's middle-
Manila have be champion of the world! weight champoin." Sam Ling FERNLY, 2nd April,
Legasp! Hollo One thing is certain now, and ford at 11st Gib!" Why does not Saigon-Per BENALDER, 2nil April 10| Per a.. F. E. Friedrich from Kabe etc. Bacolod that is that there can be no further some one in Francs take this Fe- contest for the Lonsdale bolt until deration aside and talk to it like a Hothow, Haiphong and Pakhoi-Perthe 30th March. Mr & Mr. Chantion, Cebu
HONGKONG, 2nd April, 10 King. Mr Miss Cunningham, H Wid- Labuan M'Cormick returne. Two beatings father? The people who" form it
mana, Chung Lein. Man Him, Reng
Olivercana, & Hersfeld, Mr & of the holder of the trophy men
Kine fami Kine fam. ACM Dinin D. White, She tioned must be taken notice of,
Shin-fat. Mrs Bamolina Matsen, Miss R Hongkong, Observatory, Mar. 3jat." Shirstieff, Mrs AM Sauza. Miss Ferris, H and there is no welter in Great
HJ Bruin, W Barborg, Mrs Young She-Fahrenheit on the level of the aos in in- 1 Barumotor, reduced to 12 degrees Britain who has a prior right to of Sim Langford challenging Shanghai North
ches, tenths and bundredths, M'Cormick to box for the welter Jack Johnson.
Per PERSIA, 2nd Mra Crivitzk, Mrs S Book telahi, Revoko) "balt.
Schmidt, Horuma, Kiku, Kiahl, Aza, H
10 am
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April,
might do some goot some day Haiphong & Pakhoi--For HANOI 2nd with a trifle of advice from some swntow, Amor and Fuochow-Per HAI. person or persons who have heard
YANG, 2nd April,noon,
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What a pity Longford left for Shanghai & North China-For ANHUL, It looks as if the anggested America before this decisison was Philippine Is.--Por RUBI, 2nd April, match between Carpentier and come to; it might have kept him Langford will not take place. It in a constant roar all seross the is to be hoped that that will be Altantic, so that the passage the care, for it is madness for the would have passed like a beauti French boy to attempt to give ful dream. Langford will have
[To make connection with the Dainy away weight to such an opponent.to be older than M'Coy steamer leaving Shanghai on Wednesday I do not know anything about before he can hope to be the 8th April, at 9 p.m.
the weight of Langford, but if heat the middle-weight again. gets down to 12, 7b I eink Carpentier would have some sort of a chance.
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European Champlon. The idea of drawing up a list A Referee's Strong Action... of European chempions to be That was a caricas business anbmitted by France to England, at Touypandy where Mr. Great Britain, Switzerland, and Straits, Indie viu Calcutta-Por NAM- J. H. Tawaites, who iBelgiom is a good one, providing a referee of fearless mind, declared there can be formed a hody Shanghai
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SATURDAY, 4th April,
a verdict of "no contest" between capable of barmonious working. Dai Roberts and Joe Johns It is moving with the times to do because the seconds of the latter that sort of thing, for we can no boxer made the referee's position longer take it for granted that intolerable by frivolous appeals, the champion of Great Britain I cannot think that M, Thwaites is necessarily the champion of was entirely right in his decision, the Continent, and we are not ◄ laasmuch as a boxer can be yet in a frame of mind to allow Philippine
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of his seconds. Still, the judg of necessity be the champion of ment looks rather Solomon-like, Europe.
for it is hard on a boxer if he is
The great handicap that any
ruled out of a bout for something boxing body of the kind suggest- he cannot help. There may have led must always labour under is been some circumstance which the interestedness of promoters,
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a decision that is unusual, for as gentleman connected with the
he
SUNDAY, 5th April,'
MONDAY, 6th April.
AUSTRIA, 6th April, 3 p.m.
far as can be gathered the referee promotion of profit-taking boxing Straits, Ceylon India via Bombay-For would have been justified in entertainments would not disqualifying Johns, as a boxer's allowed to sit on such a body. If seconds may not even shout that were done we might find a advice during a round.
workable committee who could
I was particularly intersted in hold the balance between boxers
this meeting, because I wanted and promoters.
to know that Roberts had been tried out once more ia; view of the fact that I have ex- rreased that he will beat Willie Farrell, who has given you all up north so fine an opinion of his ability. I share that opinion about Farrell, but I think that
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