TOM HEENEY'S PLANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 18

TOM HEENEY'S PLANS.

POSSIBLE VISIT TO ENGLAND. TRAINING METHODS DISCUSSED. frnoM our. own cop.respondent.] LONDON, March in. The boxing correspondent of an English paper writes as follows: —"To-day I rereived a litter from my old friend Tom Heeney, the New Zealand heavy-weight boxer, saying that he is certainly coming to England almost at once. It was written before his disastrous battle with Jim Maloney. but I do not think llccncy's plans will be altered. Neither do 1 think, despite those critics who are always ready 1o kick a iallen hero they have previously p.xtoiled, that Jlecney's days are over. Tom out of condition and in condition are two entirely different people.

"I saw him almost every day when he used to train at the old George Inn, at Colnbrook, on the Bath road, and 1 think I ran claim to know his possibilities and difficulties better than almost anyone in tlie country, it is clear to me lie was never trained in America as ho was here, pul, back under the old regime, he may 'yet b« c;ood enough to lower tho colours of ou-" .est."

This nrdly bears out what Heeney him self staied when he was last in England. Then lie spoke very highly of the facilities for training in America, and the op poriuuities for obtaining sparring part nert. The charges made by the latter however, were very heavy.