FARR NO KNOCK-OUT AS SINGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 13

FARR NO KNOCK-OUT AS SINGER.

Boxer's Throbbing Baritone.

AS a singer, Tommy Fan is a very good boxer. The British champion made his debut in singing on a gramophone record. His method, so far as the London "Daily Herald's" critic can judge, is the So Farr system.'

Both his songs seemed to be addressed to some opponent in the boxing ring, writes that critic. "Remember Me" and "Maybe I'll Find Someone Else" were the titles.

In the first one, in a sentimental baritone that would cause the most hard-bitten ringside veteran to sob just a little, he describes the perfect clinch:

"I'm the boy whose only joy Is loving you."

In the second he addresses either the recumbent body of the man he has just knocked out, or an opponent who has beaten him: "You know the sorrow I'll know to-morrow. Maybe I'll find someone to replace you, Disgrace you, Someone just like you." So that's how boxers feel after 15 rounds! Carpentier's Double. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, roared with laughter at a London dinner when told that he was the "double" of Carpentier, the French boxer.

Lord Mottistone said that in a wartime bombardment he dreamed that he was in the ring, opposed by a ''tremendous boxer." He was told later by

a French officer that Carpentier was fighting at a neighbouring centre.

"Years later, when I took my seat in the House of Lords. I saw the wonderful man of my dreams opposite me," added Lord Mottiston. "It was the Archbishop of Canterbury himself."

The Archbishop said that he was grateful for the suggestion that lie resembled "that vision of manlv beautv."

Boxers Leave England,

Overseas faces are growing fewer round English boxing rings.

A 1 Delanev has returned to America. The Xew Zealander, Maurice Strickland, recovered from his illness, and his manager (Bill Daly) have also crossed the Atlantic.

Manager Dave Sonnenberg and A 1 Roth go with Tommy Farr—Roth with a National Sporting Club gold cigarette case engraved with many names in Burke's Peerage.

A new car is waiting for Strickland at New York. He will motor all the way to Miami to his wife and child.

Daly said that Strickland would possibly have another fight with Nathan Mann and "then Harvey or Phillips in a championship eliminator."

Sonnenberg plans to bring back with Roth and Delanev two men new to Kngli-.h rings—John Burke, former amateur heavy-weight champion of Canada, and Johnny Cabello, Porto Rican feather-weight and champion of South America.