BOXING NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 14

BOXING NOTES.

Burns, the ex-champion "heavy" who fights Lang, tho much-improved Victorian champion, next Monday (11th April), has quite recovered from his late indisposition which was attributed to a toofond indulgence in cucumbers. Latest reports from the training camp of the two men are in every way satisfactory, and each (he says) can win. Bob Fitzsimmons has tipped Lang from Palmerston North, and undoubtedly Lang ha-< a chance. If he does happen to beat Burns the latter may claim a second match. Anyway, a Lang victory would pave the way for the popular Richmond tighter ia America where he would find numerous opportunities of proving his worth against the best of the "heavies" and middle "heavies" so numerous in tho States. For Ketchel, Papke, Flynn, Langford, and others are hungry for fame. Giving away, somewhere about two stone, that relentless battler, Rudolf Unbolz, accounted for Queensland's heavyweight champion, Regan. It gives ono some idea of the calibre of the said ex-champion when a 10-stone lad could stay with, let alone, beat him. The ex-South African heavyweight Williams, who blazedi into Australian ken, waned, and died, has once again entered the region of the outer stars. He mowed down Soldier Bill Thompson in Sydney recently, and hitched 1 up with Pat O'Keef c to fill the date at the Sydney Stadium left vacant by the postponement of tho Burns-Lang battle. Williams won a gruelling "go" in which the loser became the loser simply from lack of condition. The men, between whom no love is lost — O'Kcefe "outed" Williams in a previous contest — fought round after round amid the greatest excitement, laying on the gloves at a fast clip. In the sixth round Williams was spreadeagled with ft double to tho jaw, but he made a marvellous recovery, and returned to the argument with such vim that in the eighteenth round O'Kcefe's seconds, to save their man further punishment, threw in the towel. In both his matches Williams was cautioned for hitting low, and both Thompson and O'Keef e after their battles showed signs of having been roughly handled! below the belt. "Amateur," of the Referee, in hi 3 account of tho contest, talks of Williams's "tendency to glaringly break the laws of the game," which, he says, has brought trouble to him many a time. E. A. Rolins, who in boxing circles will be known as "Young Starlight," a son of the veteran of that name, reached Melbourne last week from New Zealand. After a few satisfactory trials he was matched (says the Referee) to fight the South African Army champion, Eddie Gordon, at the cyclorama, on 11th April. Starlight, jun., is a very fine specimen of manhood, standing 6ft 2in, and weighing 13 stone. He has the extraordinary reach of 80in, about 4in more than that possessed by Bob Fitzsimmons. He is aged 22 years, and is a native of Invercargill. Two years ago he won the amateur heavy-weight championship of New Zealand. Summers, the English light-weight, at present in Australia, and F. Thorn, ••feather" champion, one of Australia's best in-fighters, have been matched to fight at tho Stadium on 27th April. Summers was to have met Mehegan, the Australian light-weight champion, laet Wednesday for » substantial puree and the title. On 13th April tho Stadium featherweight tourney will be continued and concluded, and the following Wednesday will sees the winner pitted against Sid Sullivan for the feather-weight championship of Australasia. Frank Thorn has had the 9sfc crown taken from him because of the absolutely impossible conditions he insists upon before deigning to affix his fist to articles of agreement ] for a match with anyone, says "Ama- ! teur," in Sydney Referee. Jerome, the Australian aboriginal middle-weight, has won another good fight — against Reidy, the New South Welshman. A writer who witnessed the contest, says that tho native is no noodle at the game, and it would be extremely difficult to find a faster fighter on 'hie feet than he. Added to this his keen native eyesight, and unusual method of shaping with both hands ewinging loosely at his side, made the Cobar man's position an unenviable one. Jerome's best work was with his left hand; a slight twist at the delivery of the blow, and a finishing movement given with lightning-like rapidity, which seldom missed contact — this id the main was how victory was secured by Jerome after 20 rounds of an interesting contest. His shiftiness has not been equalled in the Brisbane ring as tar as the writer can recollect, and: certainly it would seem an impossibility to get one to move that left hand quicker than the aboriginal. Lan Hague, one time billed as the heavy-weight- champion England had been looking for, has declined sadly these days. His 'atesfc beating was administered by one Petty-officer Curran, the latter knocking the Yorkehireman out with a clean Wow. In the fourth round Hague wa» gent to the boards no less than three times, but ihe weathered the storm until the fifteenth round, when Curran gave him nis conge.