RINGSIDE TOPICS

Dunstan Times, Issue 3517, 13 April 1931, Page 3

RINGSIDE TOPICS

MFHF AND THIORI'j. ill-health has caused Artie May lo relinquish the welter, middle, ami lijrjit heavy-weight championships ho lias held so lone, and Ids retirement will he regretted, though he has not l)ecn seen in the ring so much ol late years lie heat Salvino Jamito in Dunedin, and also had a bloodless victory against one Hoy O’Hrien, a New South Welshman, but in-and-out lighter though he was, May could keep the best of them moving when he was in the mood. Me went to Australia some Lime ago, hut made an indifferent showing against Jack 1 Lames. Jimmy MhLarnin fought seven chantpious in his ring time and won over them —yet he never won a title Idm--1 They were Kaplan, .Man-Jell. Fields, Thomson, La Ihirba, Villa, and ■ Singer (states an American writer). Tile Otago Boxing Association will have an opportunity of negotiating with some lirst-dass Australian boxers •shortly, as Blew Edwards (wiio did so well tin his previous trip to New Zea I land). Ambrose Palmer (middle-weight | champion of Australia), and Jack Oar- ! roll are all prepared lo come to the | dominion. Just how things are in the I light game in Melbourne may he gleaned from the fact that for a recent > contest Kdwards’s share was only TT2 10s ! Hull Montana and John Kiloms, j wrestlers, and “Cyclone” Fox, ie- ! force, in their bout, put on a threej cornered list tight in Dallas, Texas j (savs an exchange). The fight started when Montana tried to bite Kiloms I and accidentally nabbed the referee's ! leg instead of his foe’s. Kilonis was in 1 New Zealand a few years ago. I Tommy M‘limes, the Scottish middle-weight, has written to tin: I Otago Boxing Association ottering to 1 meet any welter-weight or middleweight in the dominion. M‘limes, who 1 is now farming in the Auckland pro r 1 cinco, has not shown the form he did j on his iirst visit to New ZealandI Max Schniehng, heavy-weight chainj pion of Ike world, except in the State of I New York, arrived on the North Cer- ( man Lloyd liner Kuropa (says an Ame- | riean w'riler). Schmeling aimonnced I that he was glad to return, and gave out that his health was good and ins weight as 10211). Me asserted that lie was confident that he could whip Strihling when they meet in Jane, and then go on to dispose of Camera in Sep tom her. The Bnndren-Palmei contest has been arranged to take place at the Sydney I Stadium on Faster Saturday (says an exchange). This bout is being picked to be the best to take place since Palmer fought Haines. Kvcrctte Marshall drew close to TIT.001) with (ins Soinieiiherg at Wrig- | ley Field last May for a wrestling bout, j Their return match drew To.-IDO. an inside show. Lewis and Marshall drew T0,<500 in their lirst inatcii. and TTJiOil in their I'cimitch. The Engiisii light-weight, Kid Berg, has been malehod to meet Canzoneri tor the world’s liglit-weight title, hut no | date has yet been fixed for the clash. As Berg already holds a points decision over tlie present champion it is considered that ho will be the next holder | of the title. \ U'iUy Crime way have a few more vieI lories in the light-weight division, hut i lie showed plainly at Leichhardt when I Wally Hancock outpointed him over (dI teen rounds that lie is through as a | welter (says an Australian writer) At I 5). 1(1', he was conceding iUih to Wally. | who sent him down once in the first: session and four times in the following I term. Hancock then gave an inipresI sion that he was carrying his opponent. Crime's exaggerated crouch makes him j a most unattractive boxer. Once he 1 placed his gloves on the canvas when ' evading a blow. Some tnonglit he j -Tumid have been distpialdiecl, hat this lis not legally “ down. ’ Hancock was j cautioned for tlie rabbit blow. As in i the case of the boxer who jumps and ! receives a blow otherwise legal—below j the bolt, it is diliicuit lor an _ opponent j to avoid this punch when Orinie keeps j his weaving head so low. Wally irei (piently scored with the left, hut, ex- | cept for an occasional right, Crime was j not aggressive. Sammy Chapman is particularly i anxious these times to know exactly i what is doing in New Zealand with re--1 gat'd to an invitation being extended . to his heavy-weight champion. Jack O’Malley (says an Australian correspon ; dent of the ‘ New Zealand Sports- | man'). Now that Alan Campbell has I signified his intentions ol continuing