N.Z. BOXER MEETS AMERICAN IN SYDNEY TO-NIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 76, 31 March 1941, Page 10

N.Z. BOXER MEETS AMERICAN IN SYDNEY TO-NIGHT.

Tall, without any airs, and talking like be hits, straight from the shoulder, Maurice Strickland has arrived from New Zealand to polish preparations"" for hi* light with Carmen Bnrth. cagey American, at liie Stadium on .Monday night. Talking over things with Maurice, you would never think he had erupted trom the volcanic Dominion, stated W. V. Corbet t in the Sydney ••Sun - ' last week. He is more like an Australian than a lot of Australians. '•High-falutin" praise in tlie United Slates has not turned his head. Yet he put Xew Zealand back on the ; boxing map. 1 Strickland fought a draw with Arturo , I tiodov. the Chilean playboy who put up a meat' Wattle with Joe Louis. He drew also I with Nathan Mann, stopped a few others, 1 and was outrointcd by that master craftsman. Tommy Lougluan, iri|London. Loughran's Ruse. ! Maurice learned a trick in that fight I with l.oughran--a trick he will never forI get. He could knock Longhran all around tin? gymnasium with the heavy gloves I when he was using tough fghting tactics. | Hut Tommy told lvim it would be letter if they fought "cleanly"' in the ring. ! Ami Strickland fell for it. He says he could I have knocked Longhran out in the gymI uasinni. but. there it was. lie eased up on i Lougluan in the fight and got ; the. decision. ) Strickland still thinks he won. I That was the night in London when j Ambrose Palmer beat Kddie Wenstob in j the semi-wind-up. Ambrose did not cars to ■ tackle Longhran. Deck Training. After Maurice hail tasrprised by drawing with (Jodoy, an American newspaper man j v. lote that he looked like a starving cle- ' Hrrtvr from the Armenian arniy. j Now he is a well-set up fellow. 6ft Ha in j tall, expecting to weigh about l&'t 31b j for the Barth light. He would like to meet I I! oi Richards, too. On the boat coming to Sydney he rose I <:t !-i\- Mill morning and ran around the I deck for three milfs and a half, reckoning lit time.-- around the deck to be three ! miles. ' Strickland Siiyjj American condition* are ill,-' best in the world • and you can tell he means- it. He says it would be a great ■ (hing if ever-' country followed the Ameri- . ».:n system. Maurice and his manager. Jack Crowley, are under a £300 bond each to return tn New Zealand witliil a stipulated perioi l lor military purposes. ! It' it. hadn't Ik en tor the fact thut he was to li.i'ivt here.'he says, he would not have :-'"l away from New Zealand at all.