Boxing

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7135, 5 February 1930, Page 8

Boxing

(By 'Jab’)

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Coming Events. Jones v. Leslie —Hawera, February 12. Grime v. Leckie—Wanganui, February 13. Morgan v. Trowern—Gisborne, February 14. Sarron v. Donovan —New Plymouth, February 15. Scott v. Sharkey—Miami, Florida, February 27. Another Fight promised. If all goes well, Manawatu fans are to have another professional contest towards the end of the present month, when tho association has arranged a middleweight title contest between Artie Hay and Lachie McDonald. The monetary inducement will be £125 with expenses and with the title in the balance, in addition, the scrap promises very well. The opportunity of watching Hay in action will be welcomed by all followers of the game in this district. The middleweight champion is one of the biggest surprise packets which has startled New Zealand fistic circles. Fighting in his awkward but curiously formidable style, he has beaten practically every man of class who has run up against him in the last 12 months. A notable exception is Ted Morgan, who, according to all reports, had Hay lined up for execution at Hastings last week, when he accidentally fouled his man and was disqualified. The fight had gone only five rounds but apparently the Hastings man’s head was all ready for the chopping black when he was saved by a mischance and collected the thick end of the dividend.

Be this as it may, however, Hay has enjoyed a particularly notable run of successes, counting Charlie Purdy, Reg Trovern, and Lachie McDonald among his victims.

It will be in an endeavour to retrieve his lost laurels against Hay that MeDonal'd will take the ring in Palmerston North. Lachie has only just returned to the game after a 12 months’.enforced spell to enable his injured eye to heal. Naturally enough, he was far from his best when he took up the gloves again, and unfortunately, he met Hay at the top of his form, as his first opponent. «CThe Tesult was painful for Lachie, but in his next fight he had improved out of knowledge and lost to fighting Billy Thomas only by the smallest of margins. Thomas, incidentally, subsequently beat Hay, who was disqualified in the 11th round. Manawatu fans will remember McDonald’s courageous showing in Palmerston North against Harry Casey and taking; this .’into account with Lachie’s reputation as one of the dowrest, hardest scrappers in the Dominion, will- realise that ’ Hay is up against a .vastly different proposition from the man he trounced in Auckland.

ments are Wellington February 4, Wanganui. February 13 and Napier on or about the 26th., with an opponent to be decided. Values Too High, Apparently Tommy Crowle has been endeavouring to "sting” the Hawke’s Bay Association, says "Straight Left” in the Hawke’s Bay Herald:— Crowle wanted more than the Napier Association .thought he should ask for, and now that he e has again been beaten by Donovan he should arrive at the same conclusion. Crowle is a good boy, but not at present in championship class, and he can think himself lucky he met Leckie in Johnnie’s off night, otherwise he would have had three losses on end. Leckie to-day is a different boy to Leckie at Palmerston North where he fired his chances away for 12 rounds, in fact for the whole 15. Jargon Yankee.

Reading the following introduction to the McLarnin-Goldsteiu fight which appeared in a New York paper, one realises the full force of the phrase "coloured prose.” Blue-eyed Jimmy McLarnin, that flaming kid from the West with the dynamito-laden hands and deceptively smiling baby face, crushed temperamental Ruby Goldstein, pride of the Jewish race, to-night with a searing two-round knock-out that turned 19,000 of the faithful into a howling, raving mob of worshippers. In a battle that lived up to all the promises of the raucous ballyhoo, the socking Celt from Vancouver packed into the short lived struggle three minutes and 52 seconds of swift, stunning action that sent the customers reeling from the arena. Three times in that short time, McLarnin, the cold killer, smashed the hero of the Ghetto to the floor, first for a count of nine in the opening round, again for a nine count at the start of the second session and finally for a toll that could have been a hundred without giving Ruby any opportunity to carry on the hopeless struggle. It was as brilliant and fearful a punching exhibition as this battle-scarred arena has ever seen. i Outside the Ring. Since a .Donovan-Sarron match was first mooted there has been much heartburning as to what association would stage the bout, but now that the Wellington Association has generously, in the interests of the game, granted Sarron permission to battle Donovan in New Plymouth, the men themselves are like a pair of wild, cats over the arrangements, says the Referee. Sarron Sarron asked his price and this was granted. 9.1 was mentioned as the stipulated weight, but to this Donovan disagreed and demanded 9.0. This was agreed to, but the latest developments are that Sarron has definitely stated that no fight will take place with Donovan in New Plymouth unless he has a guarantee that a return battle will be staged in Wellington a fortnight later. As the Taranaki Boxing Association has stated its willingness to release Donovan for a return match with the American, and as the Wellington Association has intimated its keenness to stage it, it would appear a rosy prospect that the pair will later meet in the capital city. Since Sarron arrived two months ago, the fight has been in the bag, but it appears even at this date that the bag is not very securely tied. With the exception of perhaps Leckie and Donovan, boxers have for years not been over rushed with contests and have been somewhat eager along, but the arranging of the fight to accept a wad when it is passed between Donovan and Sarron has been the toughest fight ever fought in the Dominion outside the ring. Camera Muscle Tied. Discussing the contest between the Italian giant, Primo Camera, and the German, Franz Diener, E. B. Osborn in the Morning Post (London), writes: — Camera, who came on with his amiable smile, looked none the worse for his second fight with Stribling. Franz Diener, on the other hand, was manifestly much the worse for the wear-and-tear of much fighting since he took that terrific pounding from Scott in Berlin three years ago. Once more we saw the Camera of the gymnasium, and Diener, who has bad sight, was hit with everything except the Albert Memorial and an income-tax demand. It was a pathetic spectacle to see him peering at his opponent, and anon fighting back with punches which, unfortunately, as a rule only punctuated the atmosphere. It is impossible to describe such a contest in detail. Diener took his punishment valiantly, and I am not surprised that he has the reputation in America of being the gamest boxer that ever put a glove on. By the end of the fourth round everybody was tired of seeing a plucky fellow massacred, and the Tefreee, Mat Wells, who now has a patriarchal air, was implored to stop the fight. He. did so a little later on, and Diener got an ovation for his courage. "Good thing the Kaiser hadn’t got a million soldiers like him” was the appropriate continent of a ringside expert. If Camera had a real punch he would have had the German out at least sixteen times! In point of fact, he never once put him down. The truth is that Camera is muscletied; his right comes out too slow and stiff to be really harmful. He should be trained to specialise on short ones inside, launching them on a shift so as to have the weight of his body swinging behind them. He will never, I am convinced, have a chance against a first-class 14-stone man with a real punch. f