BOXING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6885, 15 April 1929, Page 8

BOXING

HEENEY STILL THINKS HE CAN BEAT MALONE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. .MONTREAL April 12. "Probably my next light will be against Jim Malone, perhaps in Philadelphia. 1 still think I can boat him. If I can’t I am going to quit,” declared 1 l-oiii Heenoy oil arrival hero. 110 leaves on Sunday for Toronto. ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR SMITH. BADLY BATTERED BY JACK ROBERTS. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, April 13. At the Stadium, Jack Roberts knocked out Willie Smith, of South Africa, in the fifth round. The African was badly battered throughout. LETTER FROM JOHNNY LECKIE TO FIGHT WILLIE SMITH FOR EMPIRE CHAMPIONSHIP. DUNEDIN, Last Night. In a letter to a Dunedin friend, Johnny Leekic, the New Zealand featherweight champion, speaks in terms of the highest praise of the treatment he has received at the hands of ’lie Sydney people, and in reference to the second fight between Willie Smith and Fidel la Barba, which he saw, he thought that Smith had weakened himself too much in making weight. Nevertheless, smith fought cleverly, and frequently made I.a Barba miss La Barba has only one hand, a left to the head and body, but what a hand! Leckie thought at the time of writing that his next opponent would be Smith at Melbourne. The fight would be billed for the British Empire championship. ■ _ Dunedin’s next professional fight is likely to be between Jack Paul and Artie Hay with the welterweight title at stake. Nothing definite lias yet been arranged, ’but the association is in touch with the boxers concerned and the date suggested for the mill is about the end of the present month. Paul is stated to bo very keen on having a tilt at Hay’s title. As an added attraction -an effort is to bo made to get Ted Morgan, the Olympic welterweight champion, to meet Bert Davis, tho Otago middleweight champion, and Cyril Hume, New Zealand bantamweight champion, to meet B'lly Leckie, the Otago featherweight champion, in amateur preliminaries.