RAYNOR’S SPORTSMANSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 22896, 2 March 1938, Page 5

RAYNOR’S SPORTSMANSHIP

"WILL FIGHT FDR NOTHING" ! GESTURE TO 0.8. A. [By Hooker.] The duties of a boxing 'match committee these days are onerous, to say the least, but they have their compensations. In the hurried search to find an opponent for Stan. Jenkin last Saturday Clarrie Raynor (ex-New Zealand feather and light-weight champion); was located at Blenheim. Raynor-was most anxious to appear, but nately a.boil on his.arm. prevented him from doing so. “ You are having a bad spin in Dunedin,” Raynor told- Mr Frank Paape, of the Otago Boxing Association’# Match ’’Committee, “ and when I am well I am prepared to fight for you for nothing but expenses.” Raynor’s offer is greatly appreciated, and he will undoubtedly be considered for a match, though he will be recompensed by a little more than the terms he asks for. A Raynor-Baker bout would be well worth staging. w The welters promise to be very active in the. next few months. Les. Adams, former Southlander, has begun training again in Ashburton. Doug. Eddington will be ready for matches in a weiek two, and besides Stan. Jenkin and Dick - Baker there is a possibility of Darcy Heeney, New Zealand amateur welterweight champion and Empire Games finalist, entering professional ranks. He told the writer in Sydney that h« had ambitions, in that direction, and he would undoubtedly be suited by the longer professional distance.