BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 16

BOXING.

News has been received in Sydney of the death of Rod Standon, the wellknown South Coast lightweight boxer. Standon was wounded early in the war, but returned to the trenches.

A New York message states that Jess Willard and Frank Moran have been matched to meet there on March 3 for a purse of 45,000d015.

Several hundred policemen who thought that tlte first knockout of Jim Coffey by Prank Mo,ran -was all a mistake are back on their beats earning money to replenish their flattened purses, says an American writer. These policemen had Jbet that in the second enooiin'ter leWefen Moran and their favourite, Jim Coffey, 'Which ..took place here-last itigh'it, the said Coffey would do to Moran.whit the latter did to him in the, "first fi|rKt —knock, him out. But Coffey didn't. He got just what he got Jfefore., Otily it took Moran three' times as long to do it. Coffey was' {chocked out list Bight in T-iie Touridß' in a fight that, was from the; etairt.. Moran, thoroughly confident of; winning, ■went to work/on Coffey in the! Very first tounid, and.in the.fourth had; reduced the County Mayo lad to such a' 'state of helplessness -that the Coffey! men left their seat 9 and 'began edging toward the exits. s From then on it was only a qigesison as to whether Coffey would lasifc the limit. CofKy took a bad •beating, and in the ■nirith.found he went. down under a •wi'ole "package of blows" and was counted out. This; ends Coffey as a championship possibility. Moran ia clearly his master, and 'even the Irish boy's mdst loyal admirers are now ■willing to concede 'the fact. Moran after the fight announced that he stands Teady to meat Willard , linder any kind of terms. "I've whipped Coffey twice," said Moran, "and I have whipped Jack Johnson in Paris had the fight been to a finish, as was that between Johnson and Willard in Havana. Willard cannot ignore mc. much >longer. He will have to fight or acknowledge that he is looking, only for easy marks such' as Fred Fulton."

Battling Levinsky, who, Dan Moran says, is the greatest fighter of all time, was the most active pugilist in the ring during 1915. The Battler engaged in 28 fighte, 25 of which were no-decision affairs. He won a fight, drew in one, : and lost one. Jade Dillon was next to Levinsky in number of fights. He had 24, and lost hot one. Ted Lewis boxed 21 times; Charley White and Johnny Dundee 18 tiMes each; Gunboat Smith, "Iβ;?:'Jake Ahearn'and Leach Cross, 15 ■fri.meg ; eaeh;';6e6rge''Chip, 14; Les Darcy 13 r Ed&e .MeGoorty, 11; Sam tangford arid Kid Williams, 10 each; Eddie Campi 9; Jimmy Clabby, 8; Willie Ritchie, 7; Jeff Smith, 5; Bombardier Wells and Frank Moran; 3 each. Jess Willard is : at the loot of the list, with only one fight during 1915. But that was quite enough—a man who wins the world's heavyweight championship is doing all that can be expected of him in one x year.

-On? of the, very first thinge that Jack : Kearns asked about.oh hie, arrival from SBMk-sS>si match, llearae wa3,.informed that the match' had Seen called off because the public refused id fail for Fiilton. ' "Handsome Jack" indulged w a emile which permitted him to show a perfect set of .gold-filled teeth:' ;

"If Tbth Jbh« had put that one orer, ,, he eaid, "he would have been the smartest, man in the .boxing business. ■ "Fulton as a fighter. & the worst kind of bum. I read in, "The Bulletin" of the time he was., tried Put at Joe Millett's and Jijek Heinple kicked the stuffing out of him. I caw- that tiyout. It was Billy Murray who was training at aiillett's when Fulton/went there. . Several mbnthij afterwards Fulton worked out with Murray at Rochester. He was Bffiy'e sparring, partner. We had a good lahgh jn Australia when we heard that Fulton hid fceeh chosen to fight Willard. I was anxious to hear whether Tom Jones had actually put the match over."

. ,k trus'sicrjf,*? ssjs £1 Fellowe, former featherweight boxer, to an American writer. "It was told'me by Sergeant Cedric Southcote Mullins of the [Fiji Islands constabulary at Suva. "On the islands, it seems, there are about 115,000 blacks and 5000 whites, the latter, despite their smaller numbens, ruling by force, though the blacks' are restless in the belief that some day they may rule aga.it. . "The time Jack Johnson beat (Tommy Burns, the Suva., "Herald" had quite an article about the fight, and, of course, the Macks heard.of Johnson's victory, and promptly proceeded to make things interesting for the whites. ' "One day Mnlliris, hearing that Toinm jr Burns and Bill Lang were on their way from the States, arranged to hold a few fights the day the boat arrived thero. "When the day came Mulling »and some of the constabulary rounded up Ratta Bulla, the chief; and'about twenty others, arid locked them jjp. He then ■went to Burns and explained the situar tion. Burns agreed to help hint by knocking out a. few of. the blacks'. "When the audience was comfortably seated in the arena two of the constabulary .-brought Sulla into the ring. They did not have any gloves' .for the chief, so they made a pair out of an old gunny

Mick and tied them on hie hands. Thee Burns got into the ring and the fight was on. : ■ "Burns kept stalling about with the big black after him until, suddenly seem" an opening, jie swung hie right from the heels, caught the big fellow on the chin, and knocked him cold. "Then they brought in another qi the big fellows, and Bill Lang started to box him. Lang was a little afraid of the fellow, on account of his eize, but in the eecond round Lang hit the Wack hard enough to knock him down. The Wack laid on the floor in a daze, and as he started to get.up Lang .moved a little closer to him. The black probably" thought Lang kicked him, for he kept watching hie feet, and when Lang moved towards him again he spread out on the floor arid refused to get up. "The remainder of the crowd, which was locked near the arena, heard the yell, nd broke out, and the constabulary uad its troubles getting the gang under control. "That night the blacks had a talk • with their chief, Eatta Bulla, and also with the other fellow whom Lang had whipped, and at the conclusion of the conference it was decided that the ■whitee should tie permitted to continue in control of the government. "That," 6aye Fellcvs, "is one time that a pair of boxe- prevented a revolution."