BOXING INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 10

BOXING INQUIRY.

MISREPRESENTATION ALLEGED. NO PAYMENT TO DELANEY f CHARITY MAY GET MONEY.

Kid Delaney will not get the loser's end of the purse given for the contest between him and Hatton on Monday last, if the New Zealand Boxing Association uphold the findings of the Northern organisation, which promoted the bout. It is also quite possible that the Australian will have his license removed bv the N.Z.B.C. The Northern Association concluded their investigations yesterday at a special meeting held in the club-rooms, His Majesty's Arcade. The main subject of inquiry was the real standing, as a bOxer of Delaney, otherwise Eddie Ross, :and whether he had misrepresented himself m that respect to the Association. It was found that he had misled them in regard to his standing, and, moreover, had not given of his best in the contest. Mr. E. A. Craig, president of the N.8.A., presided at the inquirv, which was attended by all the executive. Delaney was present with his manager. Proceedings were in committee. The following official statement was issued: "We are satisfied that Ross and Delaney arc one and the same individual, but we are not satisfied that Delaney put up his best display. "We are also agreed that he has not shown the frankness required during the investigation, nor has he shown fairness to the Northern Boxing Association .or the public. His statement that he had advised us by letter on more than one occasion that he was not a top-notcher is quite untrue, and is not borne out by | his correspondence; in fact, it was rather to the contrary. - "That the action of the president in witliholding Delaney's end of the purse be approved and affirmed, and that a full statement be forwarded to the New Zealand Boxing Council, with the recommendations: "That Delaney's license be cancelled. "That in the event of the.council upholding our account we hand the loser's end of the purse to the" Jubilee Institute for the Blind." The next step now rests witfi the New Zealand Boxing Council.