BOXING AND BOXERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 9

BOXING AND BOXERS

So apparently Bcrmondsey Billy Wells (writes Eugene Corri)' is'"not disposed to come this way to fight Jack Hood, under the auspices of the National Sporting Club, on Monday of Derby week at Holland Park Rink. But if only to uphold tradition, wo are to have what at least promises to be an outstanding happening, on iha eve of the Epsom carnival, in the form of a bout between Harry Mason, and the Birmingham youth, in whom most of us ,-ee a sure champion. I commend the club on making the match. None better, none richer in sporting promise, could have been arrauged. Mason and Hood are to take Uie rine at KM. 71b for the welterweight e.Vinmpionship of Great Britain, and £2OO aside. Young Snowball, the only English boxer who has knocked out Carpentier has charixe of Hood, and tells me that (he Midland lad's Hand, which in: damaged in his affair with Alec Ireland, has completely mended. Which is frood news indeed. I was fearful that the injury would keep Hood out of action for a very long time. When a fighter's hands crack, you can never be sure when, if ever, they will mend. And now about future contests. Phil Scott lias pledged himself to the N.S.C. in tlio matter of his next fight, and not, as expected, with the Southampton people, to tro on against Joe Beckett, an automatic arrangement, so it was assumed, after the Scott's conquest at' Manchester over Bov McCormick. Scott's next onponent will lie Harry Persson, the Scandinavian heavyweight champion, and their batlle will be at Holland Park, a fortnight after Mason and Hood have waged war.