BOXING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 4

BOXING.

• A BIG STAKE. ■ TRAOY v. UNHOLZ. | For some time past the Wellington Boxing Association has had it in mind to put Tim Tracy against a really first- ! class man, and', to that end, has been in communication with its Australian representative, Mr. W. F. Corbetfc : ("Amateur" on the Sydney Reieree), | •who was asked to make arrangements for a match with Tracy at Wellington on the 18th August against a boxer of the class in question. Tho association offered a purse of £100— £75 for tho winner and £25 for the loser, and the visitor was to receive eapenses. This, by-th&-bye, is snid to be the biggest stake ever offered for a boxing contest in New Zealand. Mr. CorOett met with difficulties in carrying out the desires of the association, owing to -certain men suggested having enteied mto previous engagements, but on Saturday he cabled to the association tiftit he hai arranged with li. CJnholz, a South African boxer, now in Sydney, to take on the task of boxing Tracy in a fiftcenronnd contest on the above data and for the above-mentioned stake. Tiracy, it appears, is willing, and tho figiit is (o come off, provided the association, at its j meeting to-night, agrees to b\v aj--rangemont — which it most likely will. ! It would appear that Unholzs las not j made miuh of a stir in Australian boxing" circles oil account ot the "ring * methods adopted over there by fhose who take part m the sport, but he is credited with being a very clever bi&r.er, with "lightning" proclivities, and, one i

who should give Tracy a lively go, to say the least. In fact, a well-known Wellington amateur, now residing in Sydney, writing to a friend in Wellington the other day, said he "believed that Tracy ~would account for any lightweight in Australia' excepting Unholz and A. Douglas." NOTES. • The Wellington competitors who arc to take part in the New Zealand Association's championship competition on the 22nd and 23rd instant, at Dunedin, are W. H. Wennand (bantam), R. Cairns and L. Porter (feather), W. G. Smith (light), and G. Watchorn (welter). They leave for the Southern scene of combat on the 19th, and the association hate arrauged to provide them with a capable trainer during tho progress of the event. J. Clark, who is to meet A. Leckie in a professional 15-round contest afc Wellington on the 29th instant, is training at Blenheim. He informs the secretary of the Wellington Boxing Association that he is in first-class condition. Leckie is training at Wellington, and also reports himself in first-class nick. R. Turner, the Australian lightweight, who is to meet Tim Tracy at Hastings on the 28th instant, is likely to remain in New Zealand for a year or so.