BOXING.

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1922, Page 6

BOXING.

McQUABEIE KNOCKS McCLEARY. I DUNEDIN’, June 26. 3'he contest between Brian M<■(. leary, heavyweight champion (• hri st church ), and Paul Mcfjuarrie (BhilT) .for the New Zealand In avyweight title, attractcd a big attendance to 11 • s Majesty's Theatre 10-night. The purse was £l5O, he winner to get £lOO and the loser McCleary’s weight was 11.9, and AlcQuarrie ’s 12.7. The champion’s chances were generally fa\oured. his opponent being about io years his senior. McCleary early proved that he was easily the better boxer, and for round after round piled up points. MuQuarrie stood heavy punishment and had the champion’s blows carried weight, the challenger must have been knocked out. On t-ho other hand MuQuarrie, though larking McCleary’s knowledge, carried a heavy punch, especially with his right. When the 13th round opened McCleary had a big margin of points to his credit ami the end of the contest came so suddenly that the big crowd could liardls realise what had happened. M<*dcarv connected with a straight left and before he could recover MuQuarrie swung a hard right to the jaw, tne • champion going down for two minutes. PRESTON TO MEET O'NEILL. ! At last week’s meeting of the Greymouth Boxing Association it was de.I eid<‘<l, owing to Harry May being engaged for the next three months, to L-h Billv Preston : gainst Frank (.) ?,v’.il, the bout to take place on the plight of the day of the representative’ | match between Buller and the West Coast, viz., July 29. j Groat interest is being evinced by boxing fans in the coming tourney of the Grey Boxing Association, for which Secretary Andy Grogan is now busy making the arrangements. Considering the large number of contestants in training, the tourney promises to be i easily the best the association has had for a long time. There has always been good fistic talent on the Coast, and the records of these p: rts in the amateur arena have been excellent. Therefore, in view of the coming Dominion championships, it behoves all interested in the good name of the Coast, so far as boxing is concerned, to put forth their best efforts to secure a strong all round team for the championships. The North Island protagonists promise this year to be exception: lly strong, and it will take good, fit mon to wrest the laurels from them. However, if the best the Coast can. put forward is available, the northerners will have no runaway victory. 3’he Coaster Whittaker proves to have beaten Jack Heeney comfortably. Cyril must have fought well and should now be in line for a fight with Caiman, and he migbj do better than McCleary rfgainst the hard-hitting Aucklander. Gleeson expects to be fit ami very confident for his fight with Paul Dcm’sky. Pat beat ’Perry Monaghan ai)d beat him at every department of the game. P: ul will have no light lunch when he meets Gleeson. The fight between Tlughio Dwyer and ITarrv Holmes must have had the fans going. Hughio bent the clever Holmes, ami now must get a fight at the Sydney Stadium. Duke Maddox', the featherweight (champion, wants to fight any feather or 'bantam, waiting for fights will not do Duke much good. The more the mer rier for a champion. I Mr B. Jeffries says there are two good boxers in Hawke's Bay that were 'not sent to Palmerston North, one was that real good lightweight Shorty. ' Woodward, ami the other, a real ily- - weight, named Piercy. ‘ A good boy is Love, of Petone, he out fought Gunn, who by the way, is 1 :• brother to the bantamweight pro- ■ fessional. Love is a Maori, but he r knows how to take punishment and - more will be heard of him if he gets in 1 the right school. i Some say Tommy Uren must be con- ) sidered amongst the ‘‘has-beens’’ for ; a very doubtful decision was given him - against Jack Cole, at the Sydney Sta- | diurn. Ring, who beat Frank Griffen, - has a decision over Colo, so Frank , could probably shake Tommy up to . some tune. Frank continues his train- , ing under Les O’Donnell, at Sydney, . and is doing very satisfactorily. When t are we going to see him back boxing in the ring locally where ho first made . his name? It is time our association matched Frank with some one of the best in this country. Paul Hannah had a very trying time in the first two rounds with Harry May. Local reports in Hastings says * that Paul was knocked down for seven and eight seconds, but weathered the ‘ storm and there was only one in it after th: t, and it certainly was not May. Hannah won well at the end of 15 rounds. | Wellington fans were recently delighted to see Paul Demsky, who meets I Pat Gleeson on July 11, step into the ring to box a three-rounds exhibition. ! Alf Lewis was his opponent ami Lewis I put up a great go with Demsky. Lewis ■ would be a good match for any feather- . weight in the Dominion. Lewis and ’ Maddox would be a great fight for any . association. Jim (Kid) Harris, who is ex flyweight champion of England, is now boxing in I the featherweight class. A short time . ago he came over to Australia, where he recently met ami defeated Fitz s gerald, in the championship of Qneeiis- . land. Though II- rris won on points, the championship was withheld from j him, as he was a pound overweight. I Since he went into tin’ ring, nine years ago, Harris has fought 175 fights. 1 Among the<o includes a no-decision bout with Frankie Britt. Boston, U.S.A., I also a no-decision bout with Jimmy T Donovan, New England, U.S.A. He | k.o. d George Mendies in seven rounds, at Port Said. Lost to Paul Demsky, after a close battle. The latter is too heavy now for Harris, or a return match would be a good draw, but as George Mendies is at present in this country looking for fight, he might do well to get in touch with Harris, or his manager (Mr Fred Goodey, Occidental ; Hotel, Palmerston North), both ef whom are confident Jim will do the trick again.