BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 17

BOXING.

JIM TRACY IN GISBORNE. WANTS TO COME BACK. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this clay. Claiming the New Zealand heavy-weight title, Jim Tracy has turned up in Gisborne and proposes starting a boxing school. He hopes the Boxing Association will get a match for him, but his prospects in this direction are not bright as his condition and age are both against a successful come back. Tracy will be remembered as the boxer who in 1922 fought Brennan, Firpo and Gibbons, three tough fighters who met Dempsey when the latter was in his prime. He took a beating in each instance, but later had better luck when he tackled the lesser lights of the American ring. His claim to the New Zealand championship was credited in America but disputed here, as the title was then going round among Heeney, McCleary and O'Sullivau. He had a hectic career abroad, but finished without laurels, and since has been lost sight of as far as the general Press is concerned. Tracy must be well over thirty years and, though still burly, seems to have lost most traces of a ringraati.