Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-19
AMBITIOUS PLANS
FOR GAME IN
AUSTRALIA
American Fighters Returning
on Zealandia Tell of McIn-
t0Sh'S Proposed Carnival.


The fight game Is falling off I'm Aus
tralia just now. and the pickngs are
not so soft for American fighters as
they were a while back, according TO
reports brought here yesterday by four
iistic lights homeward bound on the
liner Zealandia. Jim Barry. "Porky"
Flynn, Jim Clabby and an Australian
tighter named Jessup were the ring
notables who visited Honolulu. They
were fun of gossip of the game, but
were looking forward to campaigning
in the States once more, Australian
ground being worked to death.
Hugh Mcintosh will stage n big
lightweight tournament In Australia
when he opens the game up again, ac-
cording to the visitors. He has writ
ten to his American representative that
he viii make some handsome offers to
the best 133-pound boxers In this coun-
try and will do, his utmost to get them
to make the trip to the Antipodes
Mcintosh himself has got all kinds
OF coin, but he isn't letting whole
lot of 1t get away just now" said
Barry. THE heavyweights have been
worked pretty hard, and he thinks that
If he gets few good lightweights II
viii be n change for the fans and he
can pick up pile of money. He wants
to make this tournament the biggest
lightweight event ever held In the
world"
Magnificent Pavilion.
Mcintosh is also making improve
ments In his Stadium and expects to
have It ready in a short time. II will
cost In the neighborhood of $4,000 to
put roof over II. but when II IL fin
| ished he expects II to he the greatest
lighting arena In the world He IL also
building two large gymnasiums for the
boxers to train II. so that the fighters
will not be forced to go out of the city
TO train. In the gymnasium will be
Turkish baths for the use of the fight
ers. ..t
Mcintosh, in letters to his American
representative. Tom Andrews of Mil
waukee. has been putting In some big
boosts for Hughie Michigan, the Aus
tralian lightweight who Is going to
campaign In the States. but Jim Clabby.
who fought him, doesn't consider him
u world beater
Barry had five fights while In the An
tipodes, two with Langford, one with
sam McNey, one with Porky Flynn and
one with an Australian heavyweight
lAangford got a decision at the end of
twenty roVnds in the first meeting and
the second was stopped in the four
teenth by the police, who thought Barry
was getting too much the worst of IT,
Barry himself says that there was no
need for this action, and that what
made his condition look bad was a
nasty cut across the lip which bled
profusely. McVey also got decision.
Ryan Does Honors.
None Of the four fighters have very
definite plans for the immediate future,
Barry wants to go South, and Tom Nc
carey has promised to do what he can
toward securing a match. Jim doesn't
| like the game in San Francisco, where
he Is usually PANIED by some of the
papers, not being overpopular by the
Golden Gate. While In Honolulu the
quartet was shown round by Paddy
Ryan. with whom Barry was In cable
correspondence over a fight here for
the Fourth. Barry was passed on to
Ryan by the latter's old pal, Tom
Sharkey. Jim was sorry that there was
nothing doing here for him, but said
that he only half expected being able
To- pick up a match In Honolulu.
lansford's Wife Going Over.
Mrs. Sam Langford wife of Sam
l.angford, the colored pug, is a pas
senger on the Makura, which locked
this mornig on the outward voyage to
New Zealand. Sam expects to be In
the Antipodes for some time longer.
ana finds the game there to his liking.