BOXING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 71, 4 January 1935, Page 3

BOXING.

WORLD'S HEAVY-WEIGHT TITLE. JACK DOYLE A CONTENDER. Jack Doyle, singer, film actor and prize<-fighter, who is making thousands by crooning Irish songs, declares that he is out after Max Baer, world's heavy-weight champion. Very soon he leaves * England for America, and this will be the beginning of his battle for the world's title. At the moment he is "on the set" at a London film studio, his handsome Irish face almost lost behind MeClusky's beard for his role in the film "MeClucky the Sea Rover." Before he starts on., the trail of Amercia's play boy champion he will have to disentangle himself from a maze of contracts, alleged and implied. General Critchley, of Greyhound racing and other sporting fame, says that he has a contract which entitles him to 25 per cent, of Doyle's earnings, no matter where they como from. This is what Doyle says:— "I have only met General Critchley once or twice/But I have never put pen to paper for him. It's not fair. It's getting me down, this wrangling an! haggling over my! future! It's playing old Harry with my nerves. , "If I allowed myself to think about it I'd go 'nuts' within a few weeks. "But I'll have the laugh on them yet! Jack-Dempsey knows Avhat he's getting in me ! "I'll show them whether I'm a gigolo or not! "Remember what I said a year ago —that I'd be champion of the world? Well, you're going to see it. "I'm to have fights in the States—five of 'em to begin with. Who is there over there \yho can stnnd up to me? I have to laugh when I think of Max Baer. Why, I'd knock the stuffing out of him in> a couple of minutes! I know I'm a better man than he is. . . "But don't worry about this legal business. It's just jealousy. They're trying to crab me. They know I'm a potential world-beater. They want to cripple me, to ruin my nerves, to prevent me from fending for my parents and my brothers and sisters. "Well, when Christmas comes and goes and my film is shown here for the first time, I'm off—off on myi big adventure. You'll hear things, then."