CALTAUX IS FRANK

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 262, 4 November 1944, Page 6 (Supplement)

CALTAUX IS FRANK

New Zealander Vic. Caltaux, who fights Vic. Patrick at Sydney Stadium to-night, boasts that he is "the world's worst boxer."

"I want fight fans to know that," he told a Sydney reporter. "If the crowd expects to see the finer points of boxing on Saturday they will be disappointed.

"I'm a puncher, not a boxer. I'm a rotten boxer. I have a plan to knock Patrick out, and I think I have the right punch to do it." Caltaux is to be admired for his frankness. The majority of boxers think they are "world champions."

won the hole. He was equal to holing out his approach, while Aldred, with the pendulum of luck having swung against him, could not sink his putt for the 3 which he now required for a half. The unexpected happening increased Menzies' lead to 2 up, and he did not surrender it thereafter.

Against E. L. Bartleet in the final over 36 holes last Saturday Menzies again got a "break" which was most timely. One down after the first round he was 3 up when nine more had been played, and was apparently in a very sound position. Bartleet, however, tackled the hurdle gamely and won back the tenth and twelfth holes in three (after being bunkered at the tenth), and kept the margin against him to one by again getting a three from a bunker at the thirteenth. This was as encouraging for Bartleet as it was tantalising for Menzies. Then came a change of fortune at the fourteenth, which sent Menzies away to the -fifteenth tee with confidence restored. Menzies' second shot landed on the down slope of the mound outside the green and kicked in to come to rest almost against the pin. Bartleet's second was a better executed shot and finished about 12ft from the pin. Apparently there was still a chance of him halving the hole in 3. He found, however, on lining the putt up, that he'was stymied and became 2 down again at a very critical stage of the match, and lapsed into errors on the fairways afterwards.