BOXING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 187, 23 July 1920, Page 2

BOXING.

THE CLABBY-HOLLAND INCIDENT. THE AMERICAN’S VERSION. In connection with the refusal of Jimmv to fight Fritz Holland nt Wannanw. for a nurse not leas than the following. from the "Wanganui Chronicle.” will prove of interest to local boxing enthusiasts:— ~ O, TT. “I nih verv sorry, said Jimmv < lanfiv ,- n ohn+tinn- to a "Chronicle” renorter. "hut y con’d not agree to accent .-£’oo !e«« than was offered to Hren. whose place I agreed to toko pt short notice. To have done so would have been to cheanen mv reputation as a boxer- and T bad furthermore mv fellow -'boxers to consider. When mv trainer wired accenting the terms. I naturally thought the purse offered was the' same as hod been offered to T’ren* otJrerwise I would net have agreed to come over.” The manly. well-set-i’P young ex-Amen-can. who by ’ho way. was 30 wears »f fl"-e on the ’4th of this month, stated that he did not come over to Zealand to boost professional boxing. came under contract to *he Hawke’s Pav Boxing. Association at Hastings, and had since his arrival i„ (|,» Dominion on o'-ery time of asking attended at the public and secondar’" schools and coached the lads in the art of self-defence <‘j have at all times.” proceeded fj«bhv. "taken a keen interest in encouraging amateur hoxinv. "and. T am hapnv to sa.v. the offoials of the Boxing Association nt Auckland. Hastings, and G>"shorne._ nar’innlarlv. reab’sc that the onlv wav in which to imnrove | amateur boxing is bv having comne’ent professionals to train. T am ver--sorry that the Wngganni Association would not agree to give the extra .£lOO to a Inca’ charity, as; T should hove very much liked io hove boxed in Wanganui. ’t is understood that -fFOO had been re. •ceived i” guarantees for the fight cn Friday night, hvt ns n»Mw had wired accenting £4OO the comm:’*ee of the Wang.’nni Bovin- Association refused to agree t>, increase the purse. It was a care of belli siifts Standing f?r principle, "anti when hnnnena an irresistible force meets an • rnmo’-a’-le object. It is a thousaijd pities, nevertheless. ' flabby arrived in Hastings to-day on his way to Gisborne.