BOXING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7

BOXING

lIRRNHY AND HIS PROSPECTS "WILL :?0T DISGRACE NEW ZEALAND" United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.. Australian Press Association LONDON, 12th April. "T feel certain I will not disgrace New Zealand,'' said Heeney in summing up his prospects of his world's title match against Tunuey. lleeney pays a tribute to Tunney's sportsmanship in selecting a foreigner from the three aspirants for the world's title match. He says Tunuey is a hundred per cent, better fighter than (lie American newspapers think, Heeney's manager, Bernard Mortimer, is still making efforts lo arrange the match in London, hut holds out /if) prospect of success owing to the shortage of money, and doubts whether a match there would do more than pay Tunney's £I6O.C(XJ. leaving little for Heeney. Mortimer said that Heeney was not appreciated when he left England, where his indifferent form was due to poor health. The main thing lleeney had learned in America was the value of constant, strictest training. He added: "It has been my lifelong ambition to manage a Rritish contestant For the world's heavy-weight title. American newspapers recognise that Heeney is big, strong, and courageous, hut do not realise what Rmjby football has done tor Ins speed, in footwork. If Delaney and Sharkey had held on in England the same as tiny did against lleeney in America I hey would have been disqualified twenty limes. Heeney looks si ill more of a footballer than a pugilist. His unscarred face shows no trace of his heavy years of lighting." lleenev and Mortimer sail Tor America on ' Wednesday. lleeney <a by nir from Paris. hut fell asleep and passed through three llinnderstorms. lie did not awaken till he leached Croydon.