BOXING

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 14

BOXING

TO-MORROW NIGHT’S CONTEST. One of the best contests staged in Dunedin for a long time is promised when Norman GillespiCj feather-weight champion of Australia, meets Tommy Griffiths at His Majesty’s Theatre tomorrow night in a fiftecn-ronnd bout, Griffiths is one of the cleverest boys in the Now Zealand ring at the present time, and Australian critics hail Gillespie as the best feather-weight seen in Australia since Billy Grime’s advent. Gillespie is a powerful puncher and a good boxer, and Griffiths will require to show his best form to stay the pace that will be set by the visitor. It should lie a stirring contest, full of incident from start to finish,-with very little between the pair. Two good preliminaries will precede the main contest. Particulars of the box plan are advertised. BILLY GRIME’S FAILURE. Press Association—By Telegraph— CopyrigbV NEW YORK, April 11. An interesting explanation for Tom Heeney’s success in the American ring and Billy Grime’s failure to establish an eminent position, despite the fact that the latter is regarded as a great boxer in Australia, is given by Jackie Pilkington, a New York light-weight, who recently returned from Australia. He said that Australian fighters do not get much experience, due to lack of boxing tests. The Australian boxers were clever, but not half as rugged as the Americans. They are weavers, but cannot stand up against the hard hitting of rough American fighting.—Australian Press Association.