BOXING

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1923, Page 6

BOXING

GENERAL NOTES. (By “Looker-on.”) Tommy Fairhall left for Sydney by last week’s boat, after a brilliant sojourn in the Dominion. Tommy’s victories here are too well known to need repetition, being seven victories in as many contests. Writing in the Wellington “Post”, “Milo” states that Fairhall is the jjnly boxer who has visited this country and competed with such outstanding success. Very much he owes to his popular trainer, Jack Donnelly, who has certainly been his making as a classy boxer. He showed the Australian boy the benefit of “boxing with a punch.” Donnelly has always trained his protege along proper lines, putting him in the ring at a suitable weight and in splendid condition, so that to him quite a proportion of credit is due for the splendid judgment he has shown. On present indications he proposes to again visit New Zealand in January, but it isi quite on the cards that big stadium engagements will come his way and induce him to remain on the other side of the Tasman. I Harry Lasher is anxious for a fight under the Greymouth Association. He writes to says that his recent contests before the A.B.A. were favourably commented upon by the Press, fans and the Association, and were paying projects for the latter. His last contest was in North Queensland some four or live weeks back, and was against a heavyweight scaling 13st. 41b. to Harry’s lOst. 51b., whom he defeated in seven rounds. Harry states that he can make 10.3, at which weight he would be prepared to meet >, Blackburn, Stewart Smith or any other welter, and failing welters he would be pleased to come at any middles or even heavies.