BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 143, 16 June 1917, Page 14

BOXING.

A friend writing from New York says ,, "You ought to have witnessed the Moran-Cowler fight. Cowler did everything in the world to Moran in Jour rounds, had him out on two or three occasions, and he surely looked like a winner until Moran struck him a tap on the jaw and made him quit cold. Jack Grace was in Cowler'e corner, and he left the building in disgust. He said that Cowler would be a great fighter if he had the heart."

Jack McCarron won easily over Mick King, the Australian, in eight rounds in the latter's first American fight. McCarron floored the Antipodean three times, twice for the count of nine.

Tom Jones told an Eastern newspaper man that the earnings of Jess Willard since he became champion, including what he made in the ring and with the circuit, amount to almost 700,000 dollars. The gate receipts of the Johnny Kil-bane-Freddie Welsh fight the other night in New York amounted to 13,335 dollars. The promoters expected 30,000 dollars. The share of Kilbane was 4,000 dollars.

Tommy Burns was commenting on the recently published statements of some sporting vriters that he and Sam Langford, both at their best, would have made a wonderful fight. "The records don't show it," said Tommy, "but Langford and I met in the ring one time. It was in Australia, after I fought Johnson. We boxed a six-round exhibition at a benefit. It was advertised as an exhibition, and we didn't try to knock one another out, but we went at each other pretty fast, each trying to get a line on the other." "What did you learn?" Bomebody asked. "What kind of a fight would Langford have made with you!" "Well," replied Tommy, "I think he would have given mc a good fight. Sam was no sucker."

Tim O'Sullivan, who took Lea Darcy to America and was then given the grand ■bounce, states that he is now bringing over Jimmy Hill, the featherweight champion of Australia. O'Sullivan, who is in New York, ihae the following to say of Hill:— "I am bringing him here with the understanding that Billy Gibson will allow Benny Leonard bo box him. 1 saw Leonard and Mitchell box at Milwaukee and I know Leonard will not be able to lay a glove on him. I am also going to bring his sister-in-law along. She is Mise Fanny Durack. the champion amateur swimmer of the world. You can count but nine men in the world who can 'beat her from fifty yards to a mile. She can give Annette Kellerman 100 yards in 400 and beat her. Why, the man champion miler in Australia has but a second and a-half on her. She will be a eensation here."

Here is Jess Willard's opinion of Cart Morris-.—"He ie the foulest fighter in the iring in my claes. He cannot box, and has no merits whatever as a fighter Hβ doesn't even know the rudiments of the game. He ds big and strong, and that lets him K>ut. They say he is a glutton for punishment. Well, he will be like all the rest is he gete a punch on the right spot. Any good man can oujgame him." - ...

"Willard has no plans for the future in pugilism," said Jone3 (his manager). "He -would like to engage in two or three more fighte before he retiree. But where can you find the man to meet him? Jess thinks, and I agree with him, that there is not a man in the world capable of giving him even a good fight, let alone whip him. We had great hopes of getting Fred Fulton or Carl Morris, and perhaps both, until the two blew up as attractions."

Disquieting reports come out of the West. Fred Fulton wants to box Sam Langford and is that "set"' upon it-that there appears no hope of dissuading him. It is possiWe that Fred has read descriptions of "Tham's" tremendous growth around the middle, and 'believes he will .be aible to sink his long left inbo the place where the Tar Baby livee. It is tTue that Sambo has grown into a replica of the late lamented Kin» Lobensula, and could pose sueees'f'Hy as a cannibal chief with any circus side show, 'but tine Tar Baiby etill possesses the unpleasant knack of slinging a torrifle punch. He is also able to wadd'e about the ring with sufficient speed to make himself disagreeable, and if Wβ carried a life or accident policy on Fulton, we should have a special clause inserted in the contract restraining him from getting in the way of locomotives, sitting on kegs of gunpowder, and boxing with Sam Langford.