HEAVYWEIGHT INVASION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 134, 13 July 1914, Page 2

HEAVYWEIGHT INVASION.

AND A MILLIONAIRE BOXER.

Lately England Las been invaded by a number of American heavy-weight boxers, but so far they have done little worth mentioning. Writing in the London "Daily Express" recently "The Old Guard" said:— "After, a stay of four months in England, during which he was only .able to fix up one contest, Jim Savage has decided to return to America. The big fellow has been a sad disappointment. He came over with a flourish of trumpets, and much was made of the fact that he had compelled Frank Moran to retire in lien' founds.

"Against ,P< >O. Curran, however, Savage failed to capture any of the critics whose judgment is worth considering, lie beat the. Plymouth man, it is true, bjitj ; the manner qf his doing so inspired so Ifttle \ respect that he is perhaps well advised to return home. "Despite", the, departure of Jim Savage, the white hope brigade in England continues to grow. Tony Boss is on the road, Al Kubiak is in Paris with Frank Moran and Tom Kennedy, and will shortly be seen in London, and Gunboat Sinjth is due at Plymouth this afternoon,

"Kennedy is known in-the States as the 'millionaire boxer,' because he has more nioney. than he knows what to do with, and his defeats in the ring are invariably put.down to the fact that his wealth occasionally makes him careless about his condition.

"At the; present time Kennedy is busy with Frank Moran preparing for the much-boomed s contest with Johnson, but after that affair is over the ' mil-

lionaire boxer' intends to 'clean up' some of the British brigade. He has a great ambition to meet Wells, but should the coyness of the Bombardier prevent such an arrangement then efforts will be matle to induce Curran,. Bell, M-Guinness, Rice, Dick Smith, or. Denis Haugh to take the ring against him."