AUCKLAND BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 327, 30 September 1911, Page 7

AUCKLAND BOXING.

l SOME UNSCIENTIFIC STOUSH. j How the Game is "Cnieiled." i ... Smart Secretary and Pressman. [From Our Auckland Rep.] On a previous occasion ''Truth's" Auckland representative has found it necessary to complain of the scant j -courtesy shown to him by the Northern Boxing Association. Since then there has been a change m the secretaryship, and with the change matters have gone from bad to worse. The present secretary is one P. B. U-reenhough. He is a Territorial officer, who apparently has received a "lift" m dignity sinceour. pa,ternal Government has formulated its military, training scheme, ;and- considers it an obligation due -:.to that officer that all and sundry should bow down and placidly s.ub-ixn-it to his over-bearing manner. On Monday evening last the Association held what was purported to be a boxing tourney at His Majesty's Theatre, but which resolved itself into a series of absolutely vmscicntii'KS scraps. - : ' On Monday afternoon, when no ! ticket had reached ''Truth's:' repre- j sontative, Secretary Gieeuhough was apprised of the fact by 'phone. 1-1 c said it had been sent to a certain newspaper otlicc, but on inquiries being made it was found that no ticket was there for "Truth." 'Again G-reenhough was communicated with, and a message left for him to communicate with "Truth's" representative before the tourney started. Of this the discourteous secretary took no notice, and as "Truth" is a recognised independent authority on' boxing m the Dominion the representative attended the Theatre and was there seen by Greenhough. ]No satisfactory explanation or apology was offered, and no ticket for "Truth" was forthcoming. Greenhough preferred to take up an attitude oE bounce, and declared, "We don't en re if you don't attend tonight, if your damn eel paper does not report the show, I don't suppose it will break us. We ca?i stand without you or any of your papers. You can't hurt "iss." The "Truth" man then asked if that could be taken as . the official attitude of the Association, and the reply was a bluut "Yes." The mere failing; to provide a privilege press pass, of course, did not prevent "Truth's" representative from j f.ti ending the tourney, because, m j the intoroFts or sport, "Truth", readers are ontiMod to know what is going- on m the fistic world. The .theatre was well filled m all parts, and, consequently the tourney was a profit-earning 1 show* for the AsKocuUion, but tho exhibitions provided j must have disr-vustod that proportion o? the audience who love clean sport. The chief event of the evening was

a professional contest for fifty soys, of fifteen rounds, between Bert Murphy (Auckland) and Jack Griffin (Greymouth). From the outset, both j boys slogged at one another like hammer and tongs, and after six rounds of slogg-ing-, without any pretence to the rules of boxing-, Griffin won. The six-round match between P. Holt and J. Kronast, for a trophy, was awarded to Holt. Alex Pooley easily accounted for Glen Barclay m a six rounds spar. A bantam tourney between five ■ youngsters, one a cripple, was won by Gildhrist.