STRAIGHT PUNCHERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 11

STRAIGHT PUNCHERS

COAST BOXERS PRAISED The West Coast team’ deserved their win the other night as they displayed a better brand of boxing than is typical of the local amateurs at present, (states the Marlborough Express). Most of the Marlborough reps, have developed a nasty flapping style that sounds vicious but loses more fights than it wing, The shortest—and therefore the quickest—route between two poiqts is a straight line, and that is why direct punching is best. Even “Chick” Elsmore and Tommy Robinson, whose boxing previously was impeccable, have fallen from grace, which explains why they are now at the loser’s end so often. Alec Fleming can blame his recent defeats also to an absence of straight,'clean hitting. “Bob'* Morrighgn is tP be congratulated on defeating the Australasia middleweight champion, “Mick” Howson. All the same, it suggests that Morrighan is an exceptional welter or else HowAon is a poor middle to be the title-holder for Australia and N.Z. Howsop has not made the improvement that was expected of him, and, allowing for the fact that he was up against a bustling, hard-hitting fighter he did not exploit the tactics of a champion. Morrighan can feel very satisfied with himself, however, for his own plap of campaign came out on top. He went right out to bustle his man and get in close, and he certainly got the better of the in-fighting. In liis own class Morrighan' could afford to fight a more open battle, and it is pretty evident that whoever prevents him winning the N.Z. welterweight championship of 1935 will know he has been to Dunedin.