ENGLISH HEAVIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 July 1927, Page 14

ENGLISH HEAVIES.

WILL THEY RETURN? Asking the question, “AA’ill the heavy-weights return to the limelight?” the editor of “Boxing” recently answered quite in the affirmative." He also disclosed that John Bull has a couple of rather likely heavyweight prospects who, unless they are knocked horizontal too frequently, may be seen in action over here at no late date against some of our own big fellows, says an American boxing writer. “At least there have been signs and portents which suggest, that the heavies may return,’’ the editor writes, “even in this country. They still present the chief attractions in the United States, but. it is certainly encouraging to learn that the promoters are making one more effort to find one or more useful representatives of a British Beef Trust. Until a few days hack we had to rest as contentedly as we could contrive with Phil Scott, plus the melancholy realisation that it was necessary to go abroad, if one wanted to find any qualified opponent for him.

FULLY FLEDGED AND BRITISH. “To-day, we can look to one other, fully-fledged and British-born, heavyweight at that, who wants to engage Scott in fistic, combat, and whose connections are prepared to support his chances with some substantial backing. Needless to say. we refer to Charley Smith, the Deptford heavy-weight, who lias returned from South Africa fully a couple of stone heavier, and with a definite increase both in strength and experience. “Smith ‘made good’ in .Johannesburg. Since, although he lost his first contest before he had got fully acclimatised, ho won his second and was winning his third, when this had to be closured owing to an ‘early closing law’ for boxing bouts under the law of the Transvaal.

“Fred Dyer, who opened his new Health Institute, the headquarters of the ‘‘Keep Fit Brigade,” at 429 Strand, has assumed charge of Smith, and is even more confident than he was before that the Deptford man is a certain future heavy-weight champion of Great Britain.”