BOXING & BOXERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 15

BOXING & BOXERS

THE GAME IN AUSTRALIA MATCHES ARRANGED. The Stadium management in Sydney .has, completed arrangements foi 1 a series of matches, which .will take until June to run through. To-night Jimmy Hill and Frank Thorn are to discuss the feather-weight championship of Australia. On the 9th inst. Mehegan is to again try his luck against the successful Milburn Saylor, who has been carrying everything before him. At their first meeting in Melbourne Saylor knocked out the tough Australian champion. Young Shugrue, who has just arrived from America, will have as his first opponent Herb M'Coy, and this contest is scheduled for the 16th,, and qn the following Saturday (23rd) -v 'Jimniy Clabby, America's middle-weight champion, will make his first appearance, meeting clever Jeff .Smith, who put up A grand battle against Eddie M'Goorty. Herb M'Coy will have his return match with Saylor on the 30bh, and Mehegan will oppose Kid Lewis on 6th June, The following boxers of t greater or less repute have been assigned dates in Melbourne : — ■Savior v. Williams, 25th May; Jack Daniels, the newly-arrived Englishman, v. Alf , Morey, 2nd May 5 Saylor v. Fred Kay, 16th May ; and M'Goorty, v, Jules Dubourg, 23rd May. At Brisbane, on 'Monday night, M'Goorty is to meet aboriginal Jerry Jerome. To-night that sturdy little Wellingtonian, Frank Ellis, is to tackle Hector Melville. NEW ARRIVALS. A fresh contingent of boxers arrived in Sydney this week by the Ventura. They are I'-tTimmy Clabby (middleweight champion of America), Jflhnny Siff (feather-weight champion of the Pacific Coast), Ketchell, Willing, and M'Queen (trainers). Young Shugrue and Bob Moore with manager, Lee, were also on the game boat.' Latter artists of the boxing .square loee no chances of the sweet advertisement. Mr. 'Liphtenstein, Clabby '& manager, before 'arrival , wirelessed :-"'.'HaVß * Path© Freres ready." MILBURN SAYLOR. ' The hard-hitting Milburri Saylor is in ;great demand. Besides the matches arranged with Mehegan and M'Coy, Fred ■Kay, a West -Australian, is asking for a [chance to JAeet the American. His nteator^ Charles Lucas) advocates his claim in this manner :—"My one desire is that Kay should meet Saylor. Some people say it's n tall order 5 but I fail to see it. I reaso:; it out in the following way:-— Saylor hns beaten all his men because he had a much harder punch than they. tSaylor's punch is not such a terrible one as most people seem to think. He has never knocked a man with one blow. He has beaten them simply by wearing them down with th« force of his hits, and then knocked them with a wallop no harder than any of the others, he landed. I think it, may bo said, even, without taking credit from Saylor, that had Morey, Mehegan, and M'Coy been able to punch with the same force as Saylor any one' of the three would have boaten him. I may be wrong, but that i« my opinion, which 1 am .entitled to have. Now, in Kay (I might state that 1 have had him""" well tried with one of Baylor's opponents, and he proved beyond doubt that he would make Saylor travel faster than he &ver knew how to beat him), Saylor will meet a boy taller and with a longer reach, and one who has the punch that will bo effective. Kay ha* the speed arid thft gameness, and, above all things, the confidence And coolness. Being 6et up like 'So, I ask why should Kay not get this match? He w an Australian, and it is Australians we want to «£e meeting .imported iheti." Kay won the lightweight division, of the Olympia Club's £600 tourney. A GOOD MATCH. There is one boxer in this part of the world who, I t^hink. might give Milburn Saylor more trouble than any other his weight here has given him (writes W. F. Corbett in Sydney Sun). I 'refer to --Frarik Thorn, the cleverest t of all the 'lighter men, if not the cleverest boxer we' boast to-day. As Thorn can fight and do himself justice at the new lightweight limit, a match between him and the hard-hitting American might be worth considering ,by the Stadium management. If Frank could get Saylor at 9st 61b or even 9st 7lb there would not be more than a couple of pounds be- j tween them. lam moved to making this suggestion by the fact that Alf Morey put up the best display of all who have ,tip to the moment of writing tackled Saylor, and also because a little while ago Tliorn announced that he wag out of

the featherweight class for good unless Jimmy Hill could be induced to meet him. "GENTLEMAN GEORGE." "Gentleman George" Dawson, one-time clever and highly popular lightweight champion of Australia, intends paying a visit to Sydney shortly. ♦ ARTHUR SCOTT. Arthur Scott, who for some time was referee at Sydney Stadium, but who was retired from that position after the M'Goorty-Jeff Smith fight, is to be honoured by pupils taught by him as instructor at the New South Wales Sports Club. In the contest mentioned, Scott, gave the decision to M'Goorty, but universal opinion was against him.