BOXING

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 241, 12 July 1928, Page 17

BOXING

WORLDS HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP HAS HEENEY DEVELOPED ' ’THE SPEED? ' Dominion Special Service. Auckland, July 11. S. Chapman, who trained Tom Heeney in England in 1924-25, arrived by the 1111maroa this morning with Jack Carroll, Australian welter-weight champion. "I am not going to predict the result of the Tunnoy-Heeney fight,” said Chapman. "It remains to be seen whether Heeney has sufficiently improved in his boxing during the last year or two’to have developed the speed necessary to stand up against such a great fighter as Tunney undoubtedly Is. Both Tunney and Heeney are a credit to the boxing game. If Heeney withstands Tunney it will be through his ruggedness and his capacity not to bo hurt. It is only during the past two years or so that Heepey has commenced speeding up, taking to the skipping rope and other exercises to make him fast. Tunney lias been trained on altogether different lines and has risen quickly in the game. Since ho fought Grob in Now York in 1923 ho has never looked back. He has been very carefully nursed by hjs connections and an endeavour was always made to avoid throwing him into tough fights which might keep him'back.