WANTS TO COME BACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

WANTS TO COME BACK.

Jack Haines Yearns to Be in Boxing Revival. Former middle-weight champion of Australia, Jack Haines, intends to endeavour to accomplish the task that has confronted many great fighters or boxers who have voluntarily, or otherwise, retired from the ring—a comeback. For two or three weeks Haines hae been training without any ostentation in the gymnasium of Paul Harbulot, and the assurance is given by Harbulot that in his'class of boxing it seems as though Haines had never had his career interrupted. He has been sparring with the island native fighter, Bernardino, and Harbulot states that his weight is now down to about 12 stone. It is the desire of the one-time popular champion to engage Koi> "Richards or Al Trulmans. But before any thought of sending him into the ring, Harbulot declares that Haines will undergo thorough medical examinations, and upon the result of these will depend whether or not he will fight again.

Three years ago Haines reached the peak of his fighting fame, and was considered practically invincible until Ambrose Palmer, then a comparatively unknown young man, defeated him on points at the stadium on the night of October 4, 1930. It was a sensation. They met again and the result was a draw, and then came their third and almost fatal encounter on December 27, 1930. Before 12,000 spectators, Haines was knocked out in the twelfth round.

He collapsed on arrival at his home, and, Buffering from cerebral haemorrhage, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he lingered between life and death for a long while.

Some time after his recovery he entered the- business of gymnasium proprietor, but did not continue for any great length of time. He is now 20 years of age.