GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24106, 27 October 1941, Page 3

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

Heavy-weight champion of Scotland and No L sparring partner to Tommy Farr. Corporal i; Sculley was introduced to a Zealand soldier audience recently when a boxins contest was held in Cairo between a iSew Zealand base camp team and an Imperial depot team. Sculley was not seen in action, but was one of the seconds to the British boxers. He trained with Tommy Farr before the latter's fights with Joe' Louis and Maurice Strickland Two New Zealand champions were also presented to the audience. They were R Withell light-heavy-weight champion of the Dominion, and Empire Games representative. and C. Hume-Miller, New Zealand feather-weight champion and winner of the Jamieson Belt. Hume-Miller won the feather-weight championship of the Second Xew Zealand Expeditionary Force. The boxing contest at Wellington last week between the two light-weights. Clarrie Gordon, of Auckland, and Clarrie Rayner, of Blenheim was regarded by J hose who witnessed it as being the fastest and best seen in that citv for years. Gordon weighed' 9st f)lb and Rayner fist TV lb- The Aucklander did most •it the attacking and he proved the faster puncher with either hand. Ihe judges disagreed and the referee, Captain P ihomson, grave the decision to Gordon, who thns rtunn* tained his unbeaten record as a professional. The general opinion was that Gordon nnd comfortable margin of points. The Auck lander has now proved himself to be the leaa ing light-weight in New Zealand He is nn able to claim the title however as . It the possession of Jack Jams, wbo c bamMiddle East and who will fe^ ! " nioa . pionship until he returns to the Dominion