MOREY GETS THE MONEY.

NZ Truth, Issue 406, 5 April 1913, Page 3

MOREY GETS THE MONEY.

A New Light-weight Champion.

Says "Boxer-Major" m the Sydney "Sportsman," commenting on the Ait. Morey-Jack Read battle, won by Morey: There was another great crowd, fully 5000, at the Stadium on Saturday night to witness the meeting /or the resident light-weight championship between Jack Read (holder) and Alt. Morey, the clever Perth boxer, who had so recently been beaten by Frank Flea"to, by knock-out, at the Stadium, and by Bob Turner, on points, at Brisbane. ' .. ...'•.■'■ When the \yestrallan was so ' easily conquered by ' the Californian . (Picato) a strange hysteria seized the onlookers, and the crowd went Morey mad. His exceptional footwork, his remarkable, escapes from tight corners by means of lightning ducking and swift flight, won &□ absolute adoration from a sympathetic mob, and eypn the supposedly unbiased, unemotional reporters 'got Itis of the Imagination and metaphorically shouted his praises from the housetops, totally ignoring- the splendid skill arid effective work of : . the fine young fellow who so soon conquered him. One would think to hefer and; read of all* that Mqrey did and llttie 'or nothing of Picatb's 'actions, that the Westerner was an. easy winner, till, hey Presto! he was down and out , . ' . The Morey-raadness had not subsided when old Bob Turner's victim stripped for a Becond combat at the Rushcutier Bay Stadium on Saturday night It was a strange scene and a craasy infatuation that caused a crowd to shriek Its joy every time Morey's glove clapped on Read's,- or round his shoulder, or nilssed him altogether, while not a sound greeted Jack's beautifully timed left hooks to the jaw or features, his terrific right up-per-cuts and drives to the body, or crosses to the jaw and ear. But Jack would not have mended their stony silence; what did hurt was the cowardly hooting that greeted almost everything he did. He never fought a fairer battle, indeed he lost lots of opportunities by holding up hte arms when, having them free, he could well have belted away at Morey. who, far from as scrupulously fair," would be holding him round tho neck and pounding into his body arid jaw, with his free right. Another gross violation of fair play and the rules, on Morcy's ; part, was hla trick of imprisoning Read's loft under his own right arm, dragging him around to the blind side and whacking home hooks and rips with his left; And when Read appealed, the mob yelled at him for ••squealing." Still another of the Westralian's ' Idiosyncrasies was his frequent use of the elbow and the forearm-acroas-the-throat act Truly the vagaries, of a fight crowd are like the mercy of God. which passeth understanding. A couple of weeks before, they were supposed to bo soollng Morey on as an Australian representative against an alien Invader In Picato. Here they whooped him, a sojourner from .far away Perth, against a Sydney representative boxer. Again, a few weeks further back they' were madly inciting sundry very qulsby Frenc'i Invaders to wallop the stuffing out of representative Australians. Funny fellows, the fans! The men were a woll -matched pair when roforeo Arthur Scott catted them to shake hands. b*>lng almost exactly ot a height and within a quarter of a pound In weight— Morey 9.10V£, Read 9.10*4.