HENRY DUNN BACK AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1938, Page 25

HENRY DUNN BACK AGAIN

CLASSY BOXER TO MEET GANZON

MOERA BOY'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY

It will be interesting to see what sort of showing Henry Dunn, classy Moera lightweight, will make against Dommy Ganzon, the pleasing personality from the Philippine Islands, in their scheduled professional boxing match at the Wellington Town Hall on Thursday evening. Dunn has been out of the ring for some considerable time in an endeavour to equip himself better physically for the toughness of professional boxing.

I Dunn, as an amateur in Wellington, | had a brilliant record, and was regarded as one of the cleverest lightweights in the city. After a splendid win over the late Stan Smith at the Wellington Town Hall early in his professional career, he was beaten by Colin Craib, then of Timaru, at Timaru, and Jackie Sharpe, of Australia, at Wellington. As both were technical knock-outs, it was decided to give Henry time in which to develop, and the result is that instead of the -more or less under-developed boy who fought last year, it will be a husky individual who will step into the ring on Thursday night to meet the Filipino.

The Dunn family are -well known in Wellington boxing circles, brothers Henry, Tommy and Peter all being trained by brother Richard at the wellknown Moera school. Henry, the oldest of those in active participation, is

IMPORTED BOXERS

EXPENSES QUESTION

"Difficulties have frequently; arisen In the-past in regard to imported boxers and associations paying' to the importing association a share of the importing expense," states a circular, letter to all , New Zealand Boxing As,n, sociations from Mr. George Aldridge, secretary of the New Zealand Boxing Association. i

"The purpose of the circular is to make the position clear so that there will be no further imposition on the association which goes to the expense of bringing outside boxers into the country. The interpretation of. the new rule in regard to this matter is as follows:—

'"Supposing the Opotiki Boxing Association imports Jones from Australia and give him £20 to come over. Opotiki uses Jones three times before

MIRAMAR V. TARANAKI

"A MACHINE"

RAY STEELE IN ACTION

releasing him to accept engagements elsewhere. In this case no association would be under obligation to Opotiki. But if Opotiki uses Jones oncd, Auckland uses him once, and Wellington once, both Auckland and Wellington must pay Opotiki a third of ,the ; £20, as those will be Jones's first three contests in New Zealand.'

"The position therefore is clear and simple.

"Therefore, in future, associations will be expected to make the importation expenses a first charge against their tournament, and the council will insist on the obligation being met not later than seven days after having used the imported boxer. Failure to comply with this rule will place the. council in the position of having to take drastic action against the association offending.

"At the moment Auckland has imported Cyril Pluto (£2O), 'Snowy" Clark (£2O), Wellington has Billy Hamilton (£25), and Christchurch, Dommy Ganzon (£20)."

THE NEWTOWN CUP Representatives of the Moera and Newtown Boxing Clubs will oppose each other in a match for the Newtown Cup at St. Thomas's Hall next Wednesday. The trophy is at present held by the Hutt Valley Club, and Newtown intends making a strong effort to bring it back to the city. There will be seven contests to decide the teams match and also five special bouts. Prominent among the fine array of talent will be Jackie Parker, the Newtown bantamweight.

possessed of rare boxing skill,, and it was only his lack of physique that told against him in his two losses last year. That he is in peak form, strong and confident, is shown by the fact that the Wellington .Boxing Association, with an eye to attractive matches, has put him up against the Filipino. Dunn should provide an ideal opponent for the wily Ganzon, and the bout should be even.

Ganzon has an excellent record, including a win over Joe Hall, of Australia, and if Dunn should hold his own there can be no 'doubting that the Moera boy should quickly find his way to the front rank of New Zealand lightweights.

The Wellington Association, after its last tournament, the main bout of which ended in the second round, is this time taking the precaution of running a double-feature professional bill.

AMATEUR TOURNEY

What should undoubtedly prove one of the outstanding events of the Wellington amateur boxing season will be the tournament between the progressive Miramar Club and a strong team of amateurs from Taranaki, for the Morse Cup, to be held at the Miramar Club's well-appointed gymnasium in Miramar Avenue, on June 23. A feature of the evening! will be the return encounter between Jack Jones (Miramar), Wellington amateur heavyweight champion, and Schimisky, of Taranaki. The latter holds a decision over Jones. A team of five or seven will be coming and will be pitted' against the best Miramar boys. The Morse Cup is at present held by Miramar. PARKER'S GOOD FORM Bantamweight, champion of Wellington and New, Zealand, Jackie Parker, of the Newtown Club, has been showing excellent form in recent weeks. A clever boxer, he has developed ia more solid punch, in both hands than formerly, and If he carries on in the amateur ranks, as it is anticipated he will do this , season at least, he is almost certain to have a trip to the national championships at Gisborne in September. He had an exhibition bout with Billy Hamilton, .lightweight champion of Victoria, at Dick Dunn's open tournament, at Lower . Hutt this week, and he gave a splendid performance. The tournament, incidentally, was a great success, and a large programme of interesting bouts was conducted. Some of the midgets had one-minute rounds, which added to the entertainment. GILDO MAY RETURN The Auckland Boxing Association has decided to make an effort -to induce Young Gildo to visit New Zealand for a match with Snowy Clark, probably on June 20. Gildo has been showing line form in Australia and, in a recent bout at Brisbane, gained a points decision- over Joe Hall. The Filipino forced the fighting from the opening round and had the clever Australian on the back move throughout the contest.

. "A wrestling machine," was how a Wellington wrestling enthusiast who has closely followed the sport both in this country and overseas for a number. of years described Ray Steele, whom he saw matched with Abe Yourist at Auckland on Monday night. He said that he was not the only one who left the hall at the end of the bout feeling convinced that New Zealand had secured as fine a wrestler in Steel as had ever visited its shores.

"I have seen wrestling matches in Australia, America, South Africa, England, and many other places," said this enthusiast, "but I cannot recall an individual performance that impressed me morfe favourably than that given by Steele. Yourist, of course, is a useful wrestler and he put up a very praiseworthy display against. Steele, but he just had no chance.'

"Steele is not an out-size wrestler— a useful 6ft and 16-stone-odd—but he gives you the impression that every muscle is playing its part and working in complete harmony with a keen mind. Although he has been in the sport for nearly twenty, years he is still quite a young man and none of the men I have seen here has anything on him for speed and vigour,

"Some of the people at Auckland were inclined to think that Steele, although admittedly a great wrestler, might be too much a member of the old school to put on an exciting show, but they were quickly disillusioned. He doesn't go in for dropkicks or flying tackles, but he does carry an elbow jolt that will command the greatest respect even from experts like Fraley, Blomfield, and Moen. Even apart from that his display simply grips one the whole "time and I am looking forward to seeing him against Moen, when he should be more seriously extended than against Yourist." I