BOXING.
• TOM HEENEY INTERVIEWED (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov.- 22. In an interview Tom Heeney said he was not certain about continuing a ring career, hut he would like to keep on if he could fight only men suited, to his style, like Sharkey, Risko, Uxcuden, Dempsey. He said it would he better than fighting somebody like Tunney, who is a boxer, rather than a fighter. <£ l want to fight more, and then again I don’t. My wife wants me to get out while I have a sound body and mind. There’s no new ones around for! me to tackle and I’ve little money and would like to get into a business which would bring in an income.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19281123.2.60
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1928, Page 5
Word Count
122BOXING. Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1928, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in