TOM HEENEY’S PLANS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10379, 17 May 1930, Page 4

TOM HEENEY’S PLANS.

NO FIGHT UNDER £IOOO. Just prior to his departure from Capetown. South Africa, to return to America after his shooting expedition, on the veldt, Tom Heeney was interviewed by a press representative on the subject of bis plans for the future. He stated that he would like to fight again, but he did not propose to do so unless he could secure £IOOO a fight. Tom also indicated that he had been hard hit by the smash in American shares which occurred last year, but expressed a hope that some of his holdings might recover. The report of the interview was as under: “Shall I fight again?” A smile broke across the features of “Hontest Tom” Heeney, erstwhile contender for the world’s heavyweight crown, as he collected the refund money on his cinematograph camera from the Customs officers in the saloon of the American freighter, Eastern Glen. “It depends on what offers I receive,” he admitted. “I’d like another fight, and I’ve cabled my manager in the States saying so. But I won’t fight for under a thousand pounds. “The Wall Street smash hit me hard. On paper I figure I lost £19,800. That’s a tidy sum for anyone to lose. Perhaps some of my holdings will recover a bit, and the loss may not be as much after all.” Tom was anxious to talk about himself. He said: “I lead a very quiet life, and am never really out of training. 1 shall begin to work off the superfluous fat as soon as we get to sea, so that I can be in some sort of shape when we get to Boston.” I asked him where he intended to settle down for good. Mrs Heeney, who had been doing the Charleston to some new gramophone records, answered the question for him. “New York,” she said, quite definitely, “That’s where I have a say In the matter.’’ Tom agreed: “I guess it'll have to be New York. Somehow one gets more out of life in New York than anywhere else in the world;’’ Tom Heeney, like a dutiful husband, went to help Mrs Heeney unpack. ’ (A recent cable announced that Heeney had been matched for a bout in America.)