BOXING HEAVY-WEIGHT CROWN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 8

BOXING HEAVY-WEIGHT CROWN

Heeney’s Challenge to Tunney BATTLE AT YANKEE STADIUM i Meeting of Modern Gladiators Thirty-Seventh Fight for Title At about two o’clock this afternoon according to New Zealand time, but with the clock indicating nine o’clock on Thursday evening in America’s commercial capital, the world’s champion heavyweight boxer Gene Tuimey, will be defending his title against Tom Heeney, of New Zealand. The Yankee Stadium, New York, is the venue of the contest, which was schedjpled to go fifteen rounds. The official list contains thirty-six former battles in which the heavyweight- crown has been at stake, the last being that staged at Chicago on September 22 last year, when Tunney received the decision on points after ten rounds with the challenger and former champion, Jack Dempsey, who lost the title to Tunney at Philadelphia on points in aj fight of ten rounds just a year previously. Both splendid specimens, Tunney and Heeney are of distinct types of the modem gladiator. Tunney in action is a tall, reachy scientific boxer. Heeney in the ring is a hard battling “nugget” of a man, who revels in the strenuous exchanges and has wonderful powers of withstanding gruelling punishment.