THE BOXING RING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3107, 28 December 1921, Page 6

THE BOXING RING.

AUSTRAT,.IA’S HOPE. COOK IMPRESSES A CRITIC. LONDON, Dee. 19. Mr Bemdson contributes to the Daily Telegraph it remarkable, appreciative study of George Cook, (he Australian boxer, who is io meet Carpcntier next month. “A strange, and rare man is this Cook,” he writes. “Facially, physically, and temperamentally he is different from the rest of his fellows. He is an impelling and an

unusual figure. Fashioned on Ihe lines ol Tom Sharkey, 1 doubt if ho will ever claim Io he a master of boxing .science. Ho is quiet and shy, and happiest when alone a I his work". He has an astonishing capacity, for endurance, and is a stranger to softness. “f do not; profess In know wind he thinks about his coming light, with Carpcntier. hut 1 hazard that the Frenchman will require his heaviest punch to knock out Cook, .fudged by sheer strength Cook is abnormal. He has a frame of iron, and is of the imHinching kind. 1 am sure he does not apply the same high intelligence as Carnonlier, and ho is not so skilful, hut the Frenchman may take it from me that he will find in Cook an opponent who will not surrender so long as lie is mi his feet. Many competent judges favour Cook’s' chance. After the many hours I have spent in his camp I bold a higher opinion Ilian hitherto of his chances."—A. and N.Z.