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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 193, 10 May 1924, Page 19

Gunner Moir, who some 16 years ago was. one of England’s leading heavy-weight boxers, was the other day summoned in London for not paying £763 upon a judgment obtained against him in a slander case. He pleaded that he was receiving only £7 a week as manager of a kinema, and that he’had a wife and six children. “Is boxing finished” asked the judge. “I am too old,” said Moir, “I last fought in 1916.” He was ordered to pay £4 a month. On December 2, 1907, Gunner Moir fought Tommy Burns, heavy-weight champion of the world, at tho National Sporting Club, London, and after putting up a great battle with the famous Canadian boxer, was knocked out in the tenth round. There is an embryo strong man among the English Boy Scouts whoso friends confidently expect to annex the title of the world’s strongest. He is Saxon Brown, and, at the ago of 18 he has shown that he is possessed of marvellous muscular powers. . He can bend an iron rod IJm. by Jin. thick across the mouth, teeth, nose, . and forehead, and make a hoop of it by winding it round his leg. He holds an anvil weighing 7cwt. on his chest without any board or . padding, while four men bang on it with 101 b. sledgehammers for two minutes. Ho can punch a nail with a single hit through a board an inch thick, and then break the board in two with his bare fist. He can take a chair with a 12st. man sitting on it and place it on a table, and with his body can make a bridge, over which a motor-car is driven.

A report comes from Birmingham of a remarkable case that nas attracted the attention of the police ns well as that of the ground officials of the home ground of West Bromwich Albion Association Football Club. A collie dog. which comes from the neighbourhood of Hockley, a Bii mingham suburb, has been in the habit for some time of attending the matches unaccompanied. He gets a free ride on the trams, enters tho ground while the crowd is assembling, sits at one corner of the ground until the match is over, and afterwards jumps on a tram for home. A. C. Valentino, who has been given his Rugby Blue at Oxford, as a forward. is the fii st American to be included in that ’Varsity’s fifteen since D. G. Herring played, 14 years ago.