BOXING RING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21861, 25 July 1934, Page 19

BOXING RING

AMATEUR TOURNAMENT CARNIVAL FOR AUCKLAND SPECIAL CONTEST ARRANGED I'lie Auckland Boxing Association will hold an all-amateur tournament at the Town Hall on Monday week. The main attraction Will be a six-round match between the bantam-weights,. Percy Kelly, of Auckland, and V. Gordon, of Pa tea» who was runner-up in the Dominion fly-weight championship last year, and who is the present holder of the fly-weight title of Taranaki and Wanganui. Other bouts to be held are: —'Flyweight. Killeen v. A. Allen; bantamweight. Hurran v. Sammens, Burgess v. Morris; fc'ather-weight, Young v. Brown; light-weight, Solomon v. Es ; tall; welter-weight, Johnson v. Cooke; middle-weight, Bet-hell v. McConncll. The annual tournament of King's School, Retnuorii, will be held on Friday week, commencing at 7 p.m., Sacred Hbart College's tournament Will be held on August 8. The annual amateur championships of the Waikato district were decided 011 Saturday evening, under the control of the Hamilton Boxing Association, and the tourney proved to be the most successful held for many years. The carnival Was excellently conducted, and the prizes were presented at the end of the programme by Mr. R. T. Be id, patron of the Hamilton Association. The trophy for the most scientific boxer was awarded to R. Wilson, of Hamilton. The sensation of the evening was the defeat of R. Knock, fly-weight champion of Auckland, bv A. Allen, from the Community Sunshine. Club, Auckland. The final of the feather-weight championship between 0. Smith, Auckland, and T. Bonvard, Hamilton, was the best bout of the evening, and was won by Sihith on points. H. Hepburn, of Te Aroint, had a strenuous time. He defeated C. Farmer, also of Te Aroha, in the final of the light-heavy-wdght championship, this being his I'oUrth bout of the evening. He made his fifth appearance ill the final of the heavy-weight class, when he lost to Farmer on a points decision. CRICKET COACH ACCEPTANCE BY TOWNSEND SUPPORT FROM SWIMMERS Advice has been received by the Auckland Cricket Association that L. F. To w risen d, the Derbyshire professional cricketer, has accepted the position of coach to the association for the 1934-35 seasou. The Englishman is expected to land here about the middle of October and to depart again in March. " Sports bodies should help one another," said Mr. R. M. Sheffield, chairman of the Auckland Swimming Centre, at the centre's meeting last week, when consideration was being given to a request froni the Auckland Cricket Association for a donation to its coach fund. "By bringing a skilful coach to Auckland," continued Mr. Sheffield, "the association will bo doing a good service, not only to cricketers, but also to New Zealand." The centre decided to donate one guinea, and inform the association that more would willingly have been given had not the centre recently borne the expense of sending N. Crump to tho Empire Games. SPORT OF CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIP CONTESTS SOME KEEN COMPETITION Both the road championship events held last Saturday under tho control of the Auckland Amateur Cyoling Centre provided surprise results. Strenuous racing conditions prevailed. Over the first half of each event the competitors wore hindered by a strong head wind and accompanying showers.

. There was some keen competition in the teams' championship: All six local clubs, Papatoetoe,' Manukau, Auckland, Lynndale, Takapuna- and Beachhaven, were strongly represented with one team each. The event was over a fairly hilly course of 21J miles extending from Pdint Chevalier to Swanson and back. Each team of four riders was sent off together and an interval of fivo minutes was observed between the departure of teams. To arrive at the result the times of the first and third finisher of each team was taken and tho averago of - tho two riders decided tho issue.

The Papatoetoe team gained a decisive victory, tho members being S. E. Pinfold, D. N. Pinfold, 0. B. White and R. L. Francis. Tho team gave an excellent exhibition of combined pacing. On the outward run to the Swanson turn it took 31m 34s and returned in 28m 6s, and the average time for tho full distance was 59m 40s. The team averaged close on 22 miles per hour and beat the next -best team, that of the Manukau Club, by tho substantial margin of lm 19s. All of the individual members of the Papatoetoe team are experienced road riders. Both S. E. Pinfold and O. B. White have recorded fastest times on many occasions this year. D. N. Pinfold proved himself a distance rider of note in the longer track races last summer, while R. L. Francis has secured fastest time in road events during tho past two seasons, and his cycling career dates back to 1925, when he rode as a junior with the Manukau Club at Mangere. The Manukau Club's team, J. Brown, G.. H. Whcelhouse, K. N. Clark and J. W. Clark, lost 12s to the Swanson turn on the Papatoetoe Club's team and slowed badly on the return with the wind J. W. Clark had the misfortune to bregk his chain two miles from tho finish, but the mishap in no way affected tho result, for the other three riders finished together. All four riders have been outstanding in events this year.

Last year's winner, the Auckland Club, was represented by A. G. Patrick, J. Price, H. C. Webster and I. C. Laloli. The team appeared to lack combination. Patrick finished well ahead of Price and Webster, while Laloli came in several minutes later.

Tho scratch junior of tho Takapuna Club, R. Jones, rode brilliantly to win the junior road championship. Tho event was decided over a 13 l-sth miles course along tho northern concrete highway over an out-and-home course. To the half-wav turn, Jones was two seconds faster than the runner-up, C. T. Dwight, Manukau Club. On the wind-assisted return, however, Jones was outstanding and eventually completed the distance, under unpaced conditions, in a time of 37m 435-—a conrso record. Dwight finished 2os slower.

The Auckland Centre will conduct tho Waimauku race of 43 miles next Saturday week. After 'the result of last Saturday's teams' race a closer contest is anticipated for the challenge shield competition, which is decided over a series of events, all of which must he over 35' miles in distance. With two events decided, the Manukau Club is in the lead.