BOXING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 23

BOXING

BY "CtITU*"

NEXT LOCAL BOUT

TROWERN AND PURDY

SUGGESTED

NEWS FBOM ALL PABTS.

The 24th September will probably bo the date of the Wellington Boxing Association's next bout, but the principals have not yet been announced. It is on the cards that Beg. Trowern will be one of them. A return match between Trowern and Purdy would draw ■a capacity house in Wellington. Now that Les. Murray is in America, these two boys are the best in the land in the lightweight clasa.

Eddie Parker will be making a sec- I ond trip to Australia in the near future. On his last visit he was outpointed by Har-y Collins, the Australian champion, and took the count to Alf. Stewart. It is suggested by a Sydney writer that ho should be matched with Morv. Williams, who thinks that the referees' decisions in his two fights with Parker were all wrong. .With heavy men at present in the boom in Australia, Parker should li&ve no difficulty in obtaining matches. Paul Demsky in America. ■ ■ Paul Demsky, Australian lightweight, is' slowly but surely making good in America, writes "Snowy" Baker. Paul and his manager, Harry Currie, boxing writer, of Sydney, are. in Los Angelos. Both likeable fellows have made friends on. all hands. Demsky won his two fights, the only ones he had engaged in on this sid,e to date. Through a bright young manager, Paul had been placed under contract for three fights by Mr. Tom Gallery, promoter of Hollywood Stadium, a boxing stadium run by American returned soldiers. The | Australian's second clash took place nine days\ago, against Boscoe Hall. It was a ten-round main event. The Aussie hit Hall with everything and from everywhere. A good fight, with our boy always in the lead, and the fact of Boscoe being on his feet at the end of ten rounds is merely proof of gameness and cast-iron toughness. The referee, crown- | ing Paul with victory on points, was the signal for a house full of cheering and clapping. Demsky injured his .left hand hooking Hall on the head in the first round. The lad visits a bone specialist daily with the fractured and lumpylooking member. Personally, I fear the cracked mitt will affect the boy in future rights. The lightweight and Manager Currie believe the break will mend with no load results. New Zealand Wrestler. Jim Heslin (13.6}) had some trouble before finally disposing of New Zealander Reg Anderson (13.7£) in a six-round wrestling match at the Melbourne Stadium. While Anderson's condition lasted he was able to go with Hoslin in everything but guile, and he showed enough to suggest a better performance when his condition improves. The visitor was aggressive for most of the first round, with a fair variety in attack, but he was nearly tricked early in the second. Then he resumed the aggressive, with the crutch hold a favoured basis, but he could not gain any advantage, owing to Hoslin's smart counters. At three minutes in the second round Heslin started a move with a half Nelson, and, getting a reverse head-lock and body press, he was ablo to claim first fall. The end came in the fifth, when, after 4a collision with the ropes, ho went to tho mat with Anderson underneath. Heslin clamped his arm and pressed him for tho second fall.

Gunboat Smith's New Eol#.

There are times when pugilistic facial bumps, dents, and general thickenings become a virtue, states an American writer. Gunboat Smith, eld-time heavyweight fighter, must think so to-dayi Smith has come to Hollywood to engage in motion picture work, under contract with the Famous Players Lasky Corporation. Gunboat's recently signed contract with the Paramount picture people is unique in as much as a clause is inserted by the studio people which restrains iSmith from making any improvement in his looks.

The "unique and individual features and appearance" which the company's production officials prize so highly that they with them kept intact, are the Gunner's ; broken and completely flattened nose, heavy, beetling eyebrows, a huge mouth, and jaws that have been walloped out of alignment intended by Nature in some of his memorable battles with Georges Carpentier, Jes3 Willard, Prank Moran, aud others. And to the world another picture star is born! Notes. At the time of writing the results of the New Zealand boxing championships at Napier are to hand, and the showing of the Wellington boys has been very promising indeed. However, there has been a disappointing feature. Iv the twenty-two bouts set down for the first night there were no less than seven won by default, and five of the defaulters come from the Hawkes Bay district. It is poor fun for a representative from Dunedin or Auckland to make the trip to a championship meeting only to find the local man has failed to come up to scratch. This

method of inflating the entries of the national championships is to be deplored and shows a lack of sportsmanship, eithor on behalf of the Napier Association or the fiawkes Bay boxers.

Charlie Purdy is booked to meet Billy Chambers at Christchurgh on 14th September. On their previous meeting at Auckland Chambers was awarded the thick end of the purse. Fred Zimmerman, the Canadian lightheavyweight, who was in New Zealand about twelve months ago, is back in Sydney looking for fights. The English featherweight, Teddy ilurton, who made himself into such a big attraction by the way he knocked out Midget Kilburn, is to have his second contest at the Stadium on 11th September, when he will clash with Billy Grime. Ever since Murton beat Kilburn, Sydney's boxing enthusiasts have been clamouring for a contest between him and our dual champion. Tommy Fail-hall, the Australian lightweight, who visited New Zealand on two occasions, is returning to the ring after a long spell.

Yin. Parker, brother of Eddie, is seeking matches in Sydney.

Leo Wax, who was in New Zealand a short time back, and who is now seeking fortune in America, could stay only three rounds with a Mexican, Clyde Hull. Wax bills himself as "champion welterweight of Australia." This practice of usurping titles is doing the boxing prestige of Australia and New Zealand a gi'eat deal, of harm. Modrich was another false-alarm who gulled the American promoters with a mystic record.

The retirement of Harry Collins, holder of the welter and middleweight championships of Australia, was cabled this week, and came as a surprise. Eye trouble is given as the. reason .for his withdrawal. Collins is but 23 years of age, and his rise to championship class had been rapid. He won the welter title by sending Archie Bradley down for the count, and then bowled Tommy Uron over for the middleweight crown. Collins is said to have invested over £ 6000 during his short career. as a fighter.

Fernard Blampion, a member of the French team, boxes Jack Cameron at Melbourne to-night. Raymond Jansen (France), who was beaten by Bert M'Carthy at the West Melbourne Stadium, has been booked to fight Norkey Fowler at Sydney on 4th September.

Kene Boitaert, French featherweight, will meet Joe Esler at the Brisbane Stadium to-night. The time has arrived for Em Sheppeard, heavyweight champion of Australia, to defend hig title against George Thompson, who defeated Wally Walker at Newcastle, states a. Sydney writer. " ' '

Mr. Earl Stewart's report on the class of the amateurs at the. New Zealand championships should make interesting reading. He was commissioned by the New Zealand Council to bring under their notice any likely representatives for the Olympic Games in 1928. It is to be hoped that the report will contain suggestions for tne improvement and encouragement of the amateur.

Harry Casey and Artie Hay will meet at Napier on Ist October. The latter has been suffering front a damaged hand, but expects to be fit on the date mentioned. Casey is a rugged boxer, but he may meet his master in Hay, who is speedy and forceful.

Since his meeting with Phil: Scott for the heavyweight championship of tho British Empire, Tom Heeney lias defeated Bartley'Madden, an American, who is regarded as a tough proposition in his own country, even by those in the first flight. ■■-. The French welterweight, *yah Laffineur, won his first contest in Australia

at the Stadium, says a Sydney writer, defeating Fred Brock, of Newcastle. The winner is a decidedly clever boy, but'has not yet become thoroughly acclimatised. He is sure to d,o much better in future bouts, as he demonstrated that ho possesses a heavy punch in both hands, and can take blows without flinching when hard pressed at close quarters. The Frenchman has had less than twelve months' experience in the ring, but has a good future before him. He does not make the best use of his left, and on many occasions he relied on punching with the heel of the hand. The result was that he was made at times to miss badly by his opponent. Brock's performance was full of merit, when it is remembered that he had been'out of the ring for many months, duo to a severe ill T ness. For this engagement he had trained less than a month. He was game and full of confidence/ Many a dangerous position he extricated himself from, much to the surprise of the visitor. Laffineur drove home, many lefts and rights to his opponent's head and body, and though he felt the strain severely Brock saw the distance out. He congratulated the Frenchman on his well-won victory. M. Thuru was born on 9th July, 1903, at Trith St. Leger, France, and commenced boxing in 1923. In that year he won all of the twelve fights in which he engaged, and in 1924 suceeded in winning ten out of. the eleven fights in which he took part. ,In 1925, he again appeared in eleven contests, winning ten and dividing the honours in the remaining bout. Weighing list 61b, he is sft llin in height, and is the middleweight champion of the North of France.

Ono of his best performances was to win from the redoubtable Ted (Kid) Lewis in the very first round of a contest which was scheduled for fifteen, at The Ring, Blackfriars, London, and he followed up this very fine effort by fighting a draw with George (Guardsman) West, whom many of the English critics regarded as being a better man than Tommy Milligan. In a return contest, over fifteen rounds, Thuru improved on his previous performance by beating West by a large margin of points. Simon Bosnian,.champion of Holland,- was generally looked upon as a world-beater until Thuru stopped him in four rounds—also at the Blackfriars Bing. " .. '. ■.'•'.'

Some months ago Thuru fought a very close fight over ten rounds with Pierre Gandon, the present ■ middleweight champion of France, but the distance was a little bit too short for the debonnair MarceL He had Gandon in a very bad way at the finish, and it says much for the good sense of Ganaon 'a manager, M. Bobert Endeline well known to all Australians as Oriqui's astute manager) that since that encounter he has persisted in his refusal to allow the two m.en to step into the same ring together. .

It is" the opninon, not only of M. —jon See, but also of many of the good judges of the game in Paris, that, should they meet again, Thuru would sureiy hand Gandon a scientific lacing.