ABOUT SPORTSMEN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 June 1936, Page 3

ABOUT SPORTSMEN.

ACTIVITY HERE AND THERE. Big Offer to Baer. Max Baer, former world heivywcight champion, has been offered £OOOO with privilege of -30 per cent, of gate receipts to fight Leroy Haines, the negro who recently boat Prime Camera. Billy Petrolle Retires. Billy Petrolle, one-time “Fargo express’” has given up boxing to run an iron foundary at Duluth (Minnesota). He fought several terrific fights with Kid Berg, who was once in world championship class. Richardson Sees Mistake. Mr. A. W. Richardson, the Derbyshire cricket captain, at the annual meeting of the county club, confessed that he was wrong a year ago in condemning the new l.b.w. rule. It had certainly made the game more interesting to spectators. Holtzer Preferred to Tarleton. Nel Tarleton, British featherweight champion, creeps into tenth place in the 9st. division, according to the American ranking, in which Maurice Holtzer, holder of the French title, is fourth. Holtzer was recently beaten at the Albert Hall, London, by Dick Corbett, Southern Area champion. Too Much Tennis. A proposal to limit the number of events in which junior players may enter in tournaments is believed to have the approval of the Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria. In Australia many of the most promising youngsters in the game are capable of reaching finals and even winning senior open events, and as there arc usually junior, intermediate, and senior events on the programme for each tournament there is a great temptation to these youngsters to play in too many events. This pvas demonstrated at a recent tourna.rnent in Melbourne, when some of the young players, taking part in several finals on the last day, showed obvious sighs of physical and nervous exhaustion, some of the girls having to receive medical attention after their matches. Most young Australian players of outstanding ability arc employed ir. the sports goods business and are

able to get as much practice as they want. Too much match play, however, is held to be a definite menace to their progress in the game, and it is likely that in future they will be allowed to participate in a maximum of three events at any one tournament. Negro Stops Camera. The come-back bubble that Primo Camera was inflating towards titlechallenging size is shattered. Leroy Haynes, a brawny negro battler from the Pacific Coast, with explosives in either hand —particularly the right—blocked the former heavy-weight champion’s return effort in three battering rounds before 10,'000 fans at the Arena in Philadelphia recently. The gate receipts were estimated at 16,000 dollars. The negro jolted Primo with two crashing right hooks in the first frame, tumbled him to the canvas twice in the second, and then finished him in the third, when the ponderous one, unable to take any more of the beating he was getting, turned his back and quit In his own corner. It was one of the year’s surprising victories. Haynes’ triumph was more convincing in that although he weighed only 19741 b. to Camera’s 2651 b., he stopped the Italian in half the number of rounds it took Joe Louis and in slightly more than a, quarter the time it took Max Baer.