BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 137, 10 June 1911, Page 16

BOXING.

Clas-es in boxing are now Iteing held al the Leys Institute gymnasium, Three Lamps, on Monday and Friday evenings. The instructor is James Young, who has had extended exeperienee in tea-ching boxing in Australia and New Zealand, and whose style in a recent carnival at the theatre here was the subject of very favourable comment.

Yet another hope! The youth who some day in the near future counts on getting a trial for the highest honours in pugilism is Oscar W. Stuckey, iiO years of age. and a veritable giant, probably as big a man as ever stepped int.. tbe ring to don the padded mitts. Stuckey's debut into the ranks of topnotch pugilism is still remote. lie is trainiug earnestly at tbe present time ou a Florida ostrich farm in America, tin.l if size and weight count, for anything, bis climb into the championship class is practically half finished before 'the start. The most phenomenal feature of the "hope" is bis height, which measures no less than Oft !)in. Yin taller (ban Carl .Morris, and half a foot more in length than the title-holder. Jack Johnson. llis reach is about the same as the dusky title-holder, being Sit inches, whilst Morris boas.s a span of K-l inches. His weight, when iv good condition due fo training, is just 2JG pounds.' Stuckey has a chest expansion of Ci\ inches, measuring 110 inches deflated and 4."> A inflated, being 42A inches at normal. I'ro.n shoulder to shoulder is a length of ,V 2 inches, while the neck measures 1 IU and the waist .'l7 inches. The other measurements are: Abdomen. 411 inches; wrist. S; forearm, 12.1; upper arm. 13*; biceps, 14 * : calf, 131; and thigh, 20.