BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 72, 3 November 1906, Page 2

BOXING.

(By Uppar-Cut)>

. On e.. 9 f .,.the r members of the English cricket; ■team,' now on it's way to the colony^-Douglass, by , name-rhas '- a great reputaiiipn with the gloves. He (s ! said to haye held the heavy-weight amateur championship of, England, m fact. A., friend advises me "that Taylor, - thfe Artilleryman, who scooped m the New Zealand and Australasian amateur he^yy-weight championishipa at the' -first 'time of asking, - m i9o?, would - v be pleased to meet the Englishman ih' ; the roped arena, under th^ aegi^s of ;the; Wellington : Bpxing AssoeiatipnV Billje Cofify has carefully npted the suggestion and every' effort wiir- be -matLe to liave a display m prjyftte ' from Taylor . and the visiting knight of the willow; '

; One day this week the- secretary of the i local. Jgoiing Association was. intrftViewj^; by a ■pug-faced individual of an«xviti|ig .appearanpe, who gave Out that h.aiWivs' a. lightfweight champion of g^h.^frica, and wanted badly to hsye' £bash" at Tim : Tracy or "4ny othef man tha.t the could, bri,Hg along. He produced a bushel pf credentials^ which had reference to his deeds m the ring. Subset fluent investigations led to 4he discovery that Mr .« fPiig' ' , did hail from South i Afripi, and that ha. had a firsfc-. Class boxing ; record ' to'lus "credit-, but it; was discounted by the fact that; an unfeeling magistrate on the pther Me: 'caused him to <be; "jugged fp^ six. inbnths as the outcome of, a ilobtieryiVin'; which he played, the heavy. patt/ HOad only been released from dtiiance .- jtjle about a couple of iwnths when q-nother "rifling pocket's 1 , episode : sent"him back to "quod" for a.(u^||her, and longer ternY. Apparently^ hV'luis. only just seen this; sentence m*.%y—:.. ■■ ° ■:. greaser on the , White Star and Shaw Sfayjll liner Oorinthic is reputed' to be* don with the gloves, and if report .goes for anything he has polished off more than a dozen good raea ih?the;fisfio arena. He has written to a farmer comrade m this city intimating; his willingness to m£eb Tracy pj: any ten stoner on his arriya^.in^limgtpn about the fourth of i?edember. . : The fai%Q, of the Wellington Boxing XsspQuftion's letter to reach Hock Keys wnen passing through our city recently ,; is ' creating intense excitement ainpnsst a portion of our boxing people (says an Auckland writer). Speaking for. myself I do not, believe even had Hock received the Iptter, that . he would have gone, through to i Wellington just then, as, when ! conversing with him shortly after, the mail-boat's arrival. I referred tp tha proposed match with Tracy, stating that I. thought; the Wellington (jrowd had arranged for him to go' through: from here. Hock replied that he intended going home first, md sppiding some time with his wife and children, returning from Sydney to Wellington when everything was. fixed. Anyhow,as the club's letter reached the steam-i er, aM Hock and his party were iwell-i known to everybody ( on board, it: seems rather peculiar, to sayvti?? least of .it, that it never reached! Hock, Query ; Who did it reach j? ; \