BOXING.

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1921, Page 6

BOXING.

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. “AMATEUR,” Dunollie. —The rounds at Saturday night’s tourney will be three in number and of three minutes duration. COOK AND BECKETT MATCHED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 28. Geo’.-ge Cook, the Australian boxer, has been matched to fight Joe Beckett on July 22nd. There is a side wager of £lOOO. HOW COOK BEAT CURWIEY. (By “Looker-on.”) U-ider date of April 30th, a London correspondent forwards the following clipping of an English paper to the “Star,” giving an account of George Cook’s first tight in that country. Since then Cook met and defeated Goddard, and. great interest now attaches to his meeting next month with Beckett. Following is the report: — Few, if any, of our heavy weights could have made a braver show than did Jack Curphey, of Salford, against Australia’s big man, George Cook, at the National Sporting Club, writes Mr. Eugene Corri. Curphey, though i.e has not done a very considerable amount of fighting in London, has always been accepted as a very courageous fellow, but l\;w of us thought he was capable of going through such a strenuous contest as that with Cook proved to be. For many days the liability is that much will be heard of Cook;' already 1 notice he is being written up as a boxing demon, and one critic is sure that he is the best heavy man Australia has sent to us since Frank Slavin. ’this Cook is the type of man you would pick out of a crowd. He has an unusual face; it is a fighting face; without bumps and corners having been knocked, into it. From the beginning of the match. Cook favoured in-fighting. He does not do this in the most expert way ; rather is it all sufficient for him to know that he has got to grips with his man, and to punch the body, whether when holding with one hand or not did not concern him unduly. Curphey very unwisely did not attempt to make anything like free use of the ring. He seemed to say: “If you want a fight at close quarters you may have it. Now let us see what will happen.” M hat did happen was that Cook C'vne very near to staving in the ribs of Curphey and very often punched him about the face with short half-arm jolts. Curphey was never idle in the punching direction, but his heaviest blow did not appear to disconcert the Australian. Few men have I known to be so indifferent to hurt as Cook is. He must have hurt Curphey ven severely so that the wonder was that the Englishman was~on his feet at the end of 20 rounds.

(look had won by a very handsome margin of points. But I would not have Curphey forgotten, he was so splendidly fit and dead game. He lost because if the amazing staying powers of the Austiaban, and because he did not bring out all the boxing skill which I know he possesses.

The Canterbury Championships are being held on July 11th and 12th, laminations closing on the Gib. Competitors have to nay 10s at the time of nomination, the money to be refunded if they take part.

The receipts in connection with the Williams-Gleeson bout at- Christchurch wgo-o £235 17s, and the expenditure £234.

The \ train arrangements for next Saturday’s tournament are suitable to country fans, the Rewanui, Blackball and Hokitika trains Being eonsideraby delayed. The Railway Department have an advertisement in this issue stating that the Rewanui train has be°n delayed until 9.45 p.m., the Blackball train until 9.50, .am] the Hokitika train until 9.45.

The lads who were disqualified by the Gisborne Boxing Association for going on strike are appealing to the Boxing Council.