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NZ Truth, Issue 380, 5 October 1912, Page 3

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Billy Hannan will probably meet Hilly Cootes at Westport on Boxing Uay. On Monday morning next (Eight Hours Bay), Jack ".Lester and Jack Howard will battle at Sydney. A Porter-Maxwell match is m great demand. Up till recently, four Associations were after it. Afanawatu has secured the plum. ' • • A Falmerston N. sport; is going to present Len Porter with a medal as a souvenir of his victory over Peter Cook, thus annexing the light-weight championship. ■•''' - Sid Sullivan went under to Frank Carroll at Melbourne recently, being a points decision. This Carroll, who defeated Billy' Elliott, hasn't yet tasted the bitterness of" defeat. The heavy-weight championship 'of New Zealand is ; to* be decided this (Saturday) evening at Millerton. The contestants are -Bert' Lowe r(Gisborne) and Jim Mitchell (Millerton). Len Porter is much sought after. The Manawatu Association had'applications from Maxwell, Hannan, Jack Griffin, and Gault. all asking for Porter's scalp. My word, the Len Porter person b is m the boom. Moreover, he has earned his position. ■ r ■■ - ■ ■ A vory. promising- feather » is H. Firth, of Napier, present champion of Hawke's Bay. He will probably have, his paces measured by Harry Ireland .at Wuipukurau ■■ on <the fright of October .1»3..v, f fl^rryv. ;; -is another member of the nghting cTa'n of"' Irelands. ' ■''" '' ' " ' ; Dannevirk'e enthusiasts are going on the right way to establish the sport m that town. The tournament put on by the Waipawa-Waipukurau Association on ' race night, September 11, will do' a little towards helping the sports of the Danish village. i Preliminary winners at Wanganui on Thursday evening of last week were :— Sid Porter, who defeated N. Bond and W; Crothy, who won -from J. H. Wells. Exhibition bouts were given by Colo and Jackson and "Snowy" Thompson and Hodgson (feathers). Winners at the- Wairarapa- amateur championships, contested at Masterton on Tuesday of last week were— Bantam, K. Miller (Masterton) ; feather. »S." Trewe'ok (Cartorton) ; light, C. Graham (Masterton) ; welter, T. JMcLachlan • (Masterton) ; middle, S.' Evans (Carterton). Barney Ireland is doing no end or training for his- -fight with Bert Lowo to take place at Waipukurau on October 23.. It. is about time Barney had a match. lie rather bitterly complains that Mitchell has slipped him up twice. The two attempts that the Waipawa-Waipuku-rau Association has made to bring the pair together havo ended m the Millerton irara iquietly gliding out of signing articles. Alf Oault did well to get a draw with Len Porter at Wanganui on Thursday week. Len, m a wire to "The Second." said he thought he won, but Tiiv« Tracy was of opinion that there wasn't any difference between the pair, and accordingly gave it a draw. Len still retains his light-weight titio, and they aro all after it. The Manawatu Association seems to be tho lucky body, as it has matched Porter to meet Maxwell at the end of the mouth. Lcti will have to go it when lie meets the Hawcra boy.; he's improved some since their Wanjjanui engagement. At la?t week's Northern Boxing Association (Auckland) tournament it was announced that the Association had decided to carer for the sport m a better manner than it had In fhe past. As "Truth" has remarked before, the j Auckland Association has had too frc- j quent matchos by what might be' termed mediocre talent, and the consequence Is that the supporters of the game have got tlrod. However, tho Association, which Is right up-to-dat.\ through Master of Ceremonies Plug^e (good appropriate monnlkcr) announced that they would put up a purso of £200 and £50 exponses for the best two Australian llstlc artists who cared to blow across and argue the point over the cash. Australian pugs please take notice. Kn routo to Millcrton. where, tonight (Saturday) he moots Jim Mitchell for tho heavy-woight championship of New Zealand, Bert Lowe, the Gisborne crack, called on "The Second" on Thursday of last week. Lowe is a likely-looking customer, of whom much will be heard m the future. Naturally. Dert was interest- • ed m the remarks made by Peter Thomas concerning the foul blows alleged by Peter to have" been given by Lowe, nnd, m answer to Peter's allegations. Lowe said tha.t ho was authorised by Dr. Scott, of Gisborne, to say that Thomas was not injured m any way, that Thomas was not fouled, thajL he was not m a (it condition to fight, and sought an opportunity to turn it up. It seems to writer that this Thomas person squealed a bit too l o ml. J

.Prank . Fitzjohn and. Jimmy. Hill were scheduled to liieet at the Sydney Gaiety on Tuesday. last. >. ;._.. It is whispered that the Australian promoter, . H. D. llclntosh, has been, uiaking inquiries re Jimmy Hagerty, Jimmy Wells, the WaipaWa • "professor" of the noble art, is plugging along with a little "school m his I spare ' tune. ■ Jimmy ' says -he has a j heavy -who will put-up the money to » say he can "bring home bacon. '% Walter Ireland, brother of tho well-known Barney, is anxious for a cut at any feather-weight willing to come on. Walter was as good as Billy Shields m their five- round bout, at Dannevirke recently, and can be depended upon to make the best of them go. Hock Keys and Herb (Kid) McCoy were billed to meet at the Sydney Stadiuni on Wednesday evening last. As the tug-of-war tourney is occupying the Stadium this' (Saturday)! ' evening, .there will be no scrapping. Next Wednesday, October 9, the battle between Grover Hayes (America) and' Jack Kead (Australia) will be fought. ••.-.. What an m and outer is Bill Rudd* When up against Ernie Zanders he made that American look a cheap guy, and once again the Sydney, fans called the New , a coining champion.- Now; Bill has shot his bolt again, this" time •at Brisbane,* where the- Australian aborigine, Jerome, bashed Bill into slumberdoui' m less 'than a round. This Australian nigger must be pretty classy, as he has defeated, among others,. Ted Whiting and Terry Keller. But BillRud knocked out m less than a round by an opium-smoking,, . ginchasing, . rum-soaking, . Australian nigger. Pore Bill.' "Sailor" DuiTy Had a "life" at the Sydney Gaiety Theatre' on Saturday night week, when hevmet one Sid Wilson; 'of: Melbourne. The ~"SaUc£" was leading on points .up to the fourteenth round, .when a right on the jaw floored him. "He was' up at seven and " floundered all ' over the place. Wilson came along like a> cyclone and .commenced to pulverise the "Sailor," who, flopped down'opce more. The : referee commenced *to count, the police signalled to "stop," and then the gong • sounded: 'As the police had interfered the contest could not proceed, and the referee declared the, battle "a draw," explaining that the "Sailor" had led on points. ........-; ." j "Was it a ,schleinter ?" . was the question asked m the Melbourne District Court, recently, when* Billy, Elliott sued ■ one Herbert Albert Jen-kin-for.- the .recovery of £20 4s §d, which was the loser's, end' of the purse m the CarroU-Elliott .mill, fought at the Melbourne Athletic Pavilion, on September :;. On the occasion, ' Elliott's toWel came m during the seventh round, ■ and ; thfe referee considered that l^liiott, wasn't a trier, and announced that the • losing 1 "cut" would 1 be 'sent on-to -.the hospital. " Anyhow^ the scrap j was fought over m the . court, and the evidence forthcoming didn" t substantiate the suggestion 1 that the scrap \Vas-!a"schleinter,V v and; Billy got a Verdict. "* .?<"'*" • V-V :. given to .J.tick -Head over the Frenchman, P^ul^iL.se^ms to, have upaet the equi%r:uni J .. . 0/ niany Australian fans , who were sent at the contest at • the: Sydney Stadium. Sj'dney .^'VSp.drtsnia'n '• thought Read won, and; describes -the scene when Referee •.' Ar tHur Scott decided m Read's farvor, Arthur ' Sb'ott, the referee, indicated . Jack; Read £as the winner, and Hedlaui.jbrokpf.out. Thousands of men siood . ,up and hooted to the full v eJttbnt,. of' 'their lungs. Tho cheers of the Read'partisans wore sbaxply drownpdj. Some scribes say that the Frenchman bdrst. * into tears. "(Trit'oV foinhot vouch for that, for ' thb crowd < s\yirle(l round"; but, amidst another, storm of- hoots and couriter-chfeers, the men wore observable, over the heads of the churning crowd, being carried to thoir dressing-rooms. J Had Che fight- gone another, round* writer ,is of the opinion that Read stood a good' chance of, b'eihg knocked ' out. But, as it' was, ho won the fifrht, and won" it fairly, although' he" has rather a' tendency to roughing tactics. Another matter, though, is that he did not get an absolutely fair deal from the . ringsiders present.