BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10914, 4 June 1929, Page 7

BOXING.

TWO AUCKLANDERS SUCCESSFUL.

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AUCKLAND, - Juitp, 3. : Two professional ten-round boxing contests for purses of- £75. each were .staged at the Town Hall to-night. In-.th© first, Matt Hatton (Auckland) defeated Joe Boyle (Australia/, on points after the bout ltad gqmh.the full distance. It was a poor exhibition, the referee having twice to warn tho contestants to fight, i... vi e. In the second contest Frank •• Taylor (Auckland) defeated Cyril Hurne (Wellington) on points. This was a bright exhibition from startMo finish, and Hurne did well for-his first appearance irt the professional _ ring.

NOTES AND I NEWS. In the three lights lie has had in Australia to date, Johnny Leckiehs earnings have totalled just under £3OO, and this- includes the £175 he picked uj> as his share of the fight with Billy Grime in Sydney. Johnny Leckie anent the talk there has been ;of a . match between him and the hard-hitting Newcastle lightweight, Kill Roberts, says that- there is little possibility of such a bout taking place in the meantime. Leckie has been very light in Australia, his heaviest being Ssi .12:,'1b. against Witson the second time; and, as Roberts cannot make 9st Bib.. Johnny reckons that lie would be foolish,.to agree to such a match, with which good boxing judges will agree. Half a stone is too.much for a featherweight to give away to a good fighter like Roberts. Leckie says that Roberts certainly can shoot his right across.

The Southland Boxing Association is going to Australia for suitable men to match. It has made arrangements with Stadiums, .Ltd., to send over three-' of its recent -importations from America, and it proposes to secure a representative in Melbourne and in Sydney to advise it on the matter of engagements.

The colossal fortunes which are now to be made by good heavyweight boxers in America have created a lure which lias developed a- new “sport”—that of hunting through the wilds of the country for likely raw materia! to fashion into fighting machines. A New York exchange says,that Lew- Smith, race track and boxing promoter, of Montreal, has a flock of scouts out hunting t-ne Canadian woods lor a oig title contender. AI read v he lias in captivity some 300 young husky woodsmen,' miners and lumberjacks ready for a series of elimination bouts. tine scheme, Mr. Smith, but a mighty hard one- indeed. The willing youngster may be as tough as -a. pm© knot and as "game as a fighting cock, b.ut lack the speedy fighting brain of -a champion. It's the slow noodle that-handicaps-.most of them nowadays.