BOXING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 9

BOXING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Arrangements arc well forward for t'hfl' ■..: Northern Boxing: Association's next meet* ;,- tug, which will be held in tho Town Hall on August 14. . . ~, _ , t , •':■■; ; An X-rcv examination of. Ad. Wolga*ts left hand lias reveal-xl that it was broken , in three planes during his recent fight with Elvers for tho light-weight championship o£ ,'■ tho world. ... . Bill Lang resume's training next week ; with tho idea of re-entering tho ring in » couple of months. " • . ~?> Billy Hcffemau, tho one-time Now Zea- : lander, who fought in Sydney before ha wont to South Africa years and years ago, and did further fighting there, still dona'' tho gi«vcs. Writing to Maurice Fleming fror.i Johannesburg on May 16 .Hcffernaa . says ho beat one Johnny Erasmus at Modsfontein in 10 rounds. "I had him in tho ; fourth," quoth . Hoffornan. Fleming ssy» ',■ Erasmus is a Kg Dutch old-timer. , , Sullivan, of London, and Freddy Dawes, <: .; of Bondi, fought a draw at Sydney recently. Tho fight for a round or two resolved itself ,' . entirely : into a matter of tactics. Dswfct forced the fighting' for the raurt pan., but he did not follow up »<. q-uom t . as ho might have done.. Sullivan, .^:/,«ISS other liand, was' always second punch whoa the. first md »vUW his man* .'."■' .*■:•.■ ''V^-V'-'-'-.'?'''^'^