FAST LIGHTWEIGHT FIGHTING FOR TOM’S FINISHING TOUCHES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6666, 20 July 1928, Page 7

FAST LIGHTWEIGHT FIGHTING FOR TOM’S FINISHING TOUCHES

Comes Tearing in for More the More He Gets TUNNEY’S WEAKNESS ON THE ROPES Times Cables. Received Thursday, 5.5 p.m. VANCOUVER, July IS. Nothing but fast work with lightweight fighters for Tom Hecney from now on, was the verdict of the director of the New Zealander’s camp. To-day they added an injunction against his habit of ' consuming two bottles of ale daily, "and this was such good - ale too ” mourned Hecney, recalling that it was specially scut to his camp for the training period. Jim Eraddook weighing 170 pounds and Jim Lawless weighing 190 pounds,; both rated as hard hitters, said they could‘not slow up Heeney during fils days of training. Ho caine/in for more, all the time. Hitting him was like taking sock at the side of a-building. They , added they' now understood why he has never been knocked off his foot.. .'-.i News from Pairhaven states that Heeney’s reported savagery proved nc journalist’s fiction. When the New Zealander ing in -eight furious rounds with spar-, ring partnrs ho exhibited effective! samples of jabbing and sidestepping. Tho challenger has. never been in. better condition. . ;

v Tunnoy has increased the intensity of Ms training,indulging in six rounds of fast fighting. /He showed greatest weakness when ’crowded to the ropes where he was, subjected to a battery of blows, which he apeared unable to ward off. This typo of infighting is considered the champion’s chief concern. . , ( 1 ' ’ --// • ‘ _