Biff Briefs

NZ Truth, Issue 1294, 25 September 1930, Page 15

Biff Briefs

How Do You Do? CMILING Sammy Chapman and his ** fighting machine, Norman v Gillespie, came off this week's Sydney boat, and oh Wednesday went on to Napier. ■■■■•' . Since his last visit to New Zealand Gillespie has altered very little — he is a little heavier, that is all. Chapman is of the opinion that within a month .or two boxing m Sydney will be back to normal, but while waiting for. that period to elapse he reckons New Zealand money will be gladly paid to see his walloper going. The boat trip o.ver was perfect, the sun was shining when the pair arrived and these two omens have given Sam and Norm the utmost confidence m the future. •■"'•'". ■''■■, For Second Time v — , _ , . • VILLESPI.E is to have his first fight ** against Johnnie Leckie at Napier .on October 4. ! When the. pair met at Dunedin two years ago they gave one of the greatest exhibitions ever seen m the south city.- Leckie Avon, but only. . Gillespie thos& days was Hard put to make the feather limit but now .it is different. He is a y junior .lightweight and at about 9.4 on Saturday .week -will have Johnnie stretching all the way. Where Will They Go? THHE New Zealand Council desires to send an amateur team overseas, but it wants it to be a trip worth while. . - ■ ' •• \ Queensland and New South Wales are willing to meet the team, but the Council wants it to be a meeting of New Zealand and Australia, not New Zealand versus the states. An effort is being made to make it a. national competition. ' In the interim South Africa has replied giving' a favorable answer to the query of sending a team there, and further information is expected to be to hand m a fortnight. •' Opponent Wanted rMSBOF^NE has received Tommy Donovan's promise to fight there on November 1, but, to date, .there is no opp.onent for the Waitara boy. " With Leckie and Blay more or less tied up and Sarron suffering a recovery, there is little" on offer. It is to be hoped a suitable opponent can be found for a fight with Tommy, as one of the principals would put the Association on the right side. . Picking Petals •yOMMY McINNES seems to have re- *■ covered from the effects of his last appearance m the ring, when Dave Palmer beat him on points m Auckland. Anyway, he is out for blood again and wants to challenge any middleweight who cares to meet him.

He ha!s been rusticating m the country ,for the 1 past few weeks, picking petals off daisies, and this has given him the itch to step inside the ropes again.

■ Credit To Tom /"•OING the. rounds is a story to the " effect that Bert Lowe, best prospect seen at the amateur champs, at Palmerston, is a pupil of Archie Leckie. This is riot so, and Archie would be the last one to wish to take any of the creait for- the success of Lowe. * -'-' Bert has learned his punches * and wal- ■'• lops from Tommy Harris, who has had * X the boy ever since he started off. Harris has a high opinion of Lowe and "Truth" shares with him the contention that over a journey he will be a real house packer.' A cool, deliberate fighter, Lowe would be m his element where the time factor of three rounds was not such a bogey. To Te Awamutu ? ON October 13 there will be held at Te Awamutu an amateur tourney under the auspices of the Young Men's Institute, and the Council secretary, ■• George Aldridge, and Earle Stewart propose being present. At the -championships at Palmerston, the Te Awamutu boys were a credit to the- Institute. They entered the ring looking like - fighters, and when they left that impression was still manifest. A Long Wait • HEAVY champion Alan Campbell had his doctor try his broken hand out the other day, and the result was that the medico advised Campbell not to think of fighting, for at least six months. It appears that the setting of the bones V was not just right, and to give them » v ' show of knitting properly the hand will have to have time.