Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28
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Promoter Hugh Mcintosh Will Try to
Arrange Meeting Of Ieffries
|. and Johnson.
IS COMING FROM AUSTRALIA
Total Receipts from Last Weeks
Fight Were $4,000, Largest Ever
Taken In at Ring.

Sydney, N. S. w, Dec. 2S.-Jim
Jeffries will have to come out of his
shell and fight again.
This is the statement handed down
by Promoter Hugh Mcintosh, who
carded the Johnson-Burns battle and
who will set sail for the United States
early next month in the endeavor to
get the former champion back into the
ring.
Mcintosh is prepared to hang up a
purse of $4,000 for such a bout AZ
ter vain attempt to get Burns to
consent to a return meeting, he has
decided to set sail for the States.
| Burns is still suilen and Respondent
over his beating and says that he will
| stick to his intention, announced once
before-that is. that he will not enter
| the ring again He claims he has won
100000 in his pugilistic career, and
says this is enough to suit him.
| Gate Receipts Are Huge.
Statements of the receipts show
that the bout drew more patrons than
any other pugilistic event in the his
tory of the ring. The total gate money
was close to $150,00O, exceeding by
twice as much the returns for the
noted Jeffries-Corbett bout at Coney
Island in May, 1900. This has long
stood as the biggest house drawn by
a pugilistic event.
| Receipts for the Coney Island bout
were close to 100000.
| Mcintosh is much elated over the
toutcome, particularly as he stood a
chance to lose a fortune in case the
match had been prevented. He had tC
secure a tract Of ground, build the
arena and then take long chance or
guaranteeing the men their expenses
He has made a success of the whole
affair and now wants to schedule {
more decisive battle.
| Jack Johnson is still placid ant
cheerful over his victory. When Bill
Squires challenged him he Immediately
said he would box any man and would
make side bet up to $4,000. Squire'
was scurrying around trying to find 4;
hacker yesterday, but no one likes hi.
chances.
VI Johnson I'm Good Trim.
johnson is in perfect condition ant
shows no signs of the bout with Burns
( He is entirely unmarked, whereas Tom
my carries around discolored pair o
eyes and a swollen jaw. 1t was a
first thought Johnson had broken hi
, jaw by one of the punches he landed
! but this has been found incorrect.
III Prepare for 45-ROund Battle.
Il Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 2S.-The AZ
] round prize fight, scheduled to be he'll
before the Jeffries Athletic club a
Vernon next Wednesday night, be
SItween Al Kaufman of San Francisc
I and Jim Barry of Chicago, is one Q
the most important heavyweight fisti
battles to be fought in recent months
because of the likelihood that the wiz
( ;ner will meet Jack Johnson, the co
ored conqueror of Tommy Burns, 70
the championship of the world.
Z Barry has signified his willingness
4 to meet Johnson if he is successful i
( beating Kaufman, but Billy Delane.
s manager for Kaufman, declares thu
under no circumstances will he pc
NIT his man to meet negro in tn
: lring. Delaney declares that if Kau
imam fights johnson it will be unde
management other than his. Kau
imam has nothing to say, leaving tn
3 decision in che matter to his manage
z lKaufmann and Barry are both
i training near this city. Betting O
3 lnext Wednesdays fight is at odds {
z 10 to s and 10 to in favor of Kau
3 mann, although little money has bee
= lplaced SO far.