Boxing.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4303, 4 November 1909, Page 2

Boxing.

MANAWATU TOURNAMENT. The chief items on the Manawatu Boxing Club's programme on 9th will be the profsssional 15 rounds contest between Clarke, a recent arrival from England, and Leckie, Wellington, both middleweights. The amateur bouts will be between Geoff. Watchorn (welterweight champion of the Dominion) and Tancred, Petone, welterweight champion of the North Island- W. Shields, featherweight champion, will meet Dapper, Petone. One of j the clever Havell boys will represent the Manawatu in the bantam class against a well-known Hastings bantam. UNHOLZ AND ARTHUR CRIPPS. RUDDIE EXPERIENCES NO MISGIVINGS. Rudolph Unholz experiences no misgivings whatever regarding what may happen to him at the SydneyStadium on the evening of November 10th. The knowledge that he will be giving away a good lump of weight beyond that conceded Johns is not at all likely to get the Americanised Teuton down and worry him. " I box Arder Cripps when he was in Johnson's camp, and I did not find him a man-eater, though I did not find him easy niither. I don't tink by chance is a schwell one by any means, but I am not making] matches to get licked am I ?" Rudie rambles over hill and dale every morning, and " brudder"! George, an accomplished masseur, j rubs him down "good and well." Rudie wallops the flying sphere, plays handball, fights all-comers, toys with the medicine ball, and does j "any odd thing that strikes him as being proper exercise, every after-; noon at the Victoria Barracks, and " brudder " George rubs him down again. In the evening Rudie visits his friends and talks, or he spends an hour at the theatre. Arthur Cripps will need to be as strong and as well as he is reported, for there'll be a bouncing ball of muscle in the ring after he shakes | hands with Unholz that is sure to keep him moving all the time.