LOCAL BOXING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 August 1934, Page 2

LOCAL BOXING

MORGAN TO MEET FITZMAURICE NEXT WEEK (By “Right Cross”) When everything looked so promising for the forthcoming Morgan-Jaggers contest, the local Association was unfortunate again, advieo being received to the effect that Jaggers was suffering from a sprained ankle, necessitating a postponement of the proposed contest. Quito a number of leading sports critics had predicted the defeat of the champion (Morgan) by the two-handed hard hitting Wellingtonian. However it was pleasing to hear that the Association had secured the services of that great hearted little boxer Gus Fitzmaurice to substitute Jaggers. Fitzmaurice had been booked for a fight in Nelson directly after the Morgan-Jag-gers clash, to light the winner. He has been in hard training for this bout and is perfectly fit.

Fitzmaurice is well-known to the Kelson public and was without a doubt the hero of Ins bout, with Morgan here last year. Although he lost to the exworld’s champion lie was great in defeat. Physical fitness carried Morgan to victory when the stout-hearted Gisborne lad was beginning to tire. Another thing in Morgan’s favour was the 3 minute rounds. Up to the 2 minute mark Fitzmjiurice held the southpaw in check, then the title holder would cut loose with a barrage of two-handed blows.

In two-minute rounds Morgan will have to fight hard from the first gong. The champion is undoubtedly a fine specimen of physical fitness, tough, rugged, possessed of terrific hitting power, and has the two great assets of speed, and coolness. Fitzmaurice is more strongly built than Morgan, but shorter, more rugged, and a hard puncher. He ; is a formidable opponent, and Morgan! will find Fitzmaurice harder on this; occasion as he has on two previous oc- i, casions held Morgen to disputed decis- ‘ ions (by the urns), J