BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 18

BOXING.

A promising heavyweight has turned up in Sydney from Mackay, Queensland, and is under the bare of Dave Smith, says a Sydney writer. His name is Jerry Hansen. He is just over 20 years of age, 6ft lin high, and weighs a little over 13st. Recently Hansen was tried out by Dave Smith at Ms rooms in Castlereagh Street. No light sparring was indulged in. Smith punched hard, and drew Hansen's fighting qualities to their utmost. The bout was of four rounds' duration, and at the end. of it Hansen, although carrying the marks of battle, was ready and willing to continue. He put up a game tussle with his much more experienced opponent, and showed that he is likely, if he spars daily with Smith, and follows instructions, to develop into a first class heavyweight. "The newcomer," said Dave Smith, "will in a short time be a hard fellow to beat. He has two victories to his credit in Queensland. He is a heavy puncher, and will make himself felt before long. I really think he is the most promising heavyweight we have seen for some time."

Francois Descamps, who has acted as Georges Carpentier's manager since the pit _>oy'_ first ring essay, will act aa such until until his retirement. Nowadays Descamps lives in the provinces, about 200 miles out of Park, and only occasionally runs up to town, he being very busy with the management of a cheese-box factory he purchased soon after war broke out. The object of a visit in December was to confer with Carpentier about his boxing plan of campaign, now that the other great campaign has to all intents come to an end, writes Victor Breyer in the "Sporting Life." The young champion seems full of fight, and anxious to get into the ring again. But Descamps' advice once more prevailed, and its object can be summed up in the one famous sentence —Wait and see. In other words, it seems quite unlikely that Carpentier, as keen as he appears to be, will be baited to jump into contracting for his re-appearance in the ring. First of all, it must be borne in mind that he belongs to one of the young classes — Georges will be 25 next month—and, as such, may not be dymobolised for many months yet, so that he is not free to do as he likes, by a long way. Then, again, Descamps is* literally submerged with offers from France, as well as England and America, and, shrewd business fellow that he is, he realises that the competition to secure the first services of his man may result in some lively bidding, ont of which neither will come a loser. He showed half-a-dozen of these offers, and without betraying any secrets one may say some appeared quite decent. A_s to names of suggested opponents, they included Bißy Wells, Frank Goddard, Eddie McGoorty, Mike O'Dowd, Jack Dempsey, and one* certain Battling Levinski, who it must he borne in mind, holds in America the "cruiser"' tiHe corresponding to the one of which Carpentier is the undisputed owner in Europe.