BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 15

BOXING.

RAINSFORD V. KELLY. "However the decision goes," says Jack Rains ford", the New South Wales heavy - weight ft hamp i on, and -contender for the ctown of Ambrose Paliiier, "the Beacon "will* know he has been in a fight." And the ebony churchman-pugilist smiles confidently and widely, for Leo Kelly, No. 2 world rating, is satisfied that no one in the world can beat him at his weight. However, Jack Rainsford, who went fourteen hectic rounds with the dynamic Lao, retiring with a fractured ankle in the fourteenth, desires nothing better than the opportunity to turn the tables oil.his conqueror, and is very confident that lie can do it. Jack advances no claim for super-scientific boxing skill, but -his scraphook bristles with evidence ot his lighting ability. He is training daily at the Auckland Gymnasium, and has impressed those fans ivlio have watched his workouts as a non-stop walloper of no mean ability. Leo Kelly; with a t.k.o. decision oyer the speedy. Australian Claude: _ ]Nichol (whoso arm is nqw in plaster of Paris), goes through his training schedule each afternoon at Gleeson's Hotel gymnasium. This,-should be a fight, as Rainsford, knowing the dusky Deacon as a slow starter, intends to make the pace from the start.