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

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'.. Lyn Truscott Is due back 'm Wellington next week". Bill Rudd Is glowering at Gordon Coghill m Sydney. The ex-Walpawa light-weight, I>ou. O'Hallorari, is still sparring o* Thursday afternoons at the Sydney" Stadium.'! The Sydney Stadium fixture thif Saturday evening is between Boyo Driseoll (England) and Charlie Simpson (v|c). Lou. O'Halloran, of Walpawa, and Young Sullivan, of London, will be the star attraction this Saturday evening at Newtown (Sydney).. . The annual meeting of the Wellington Boxing Association has been fixed for Tuesday, April 22. Needless . to . remarlr, the Association is well on the wrong Bide .of .the ledger. The Marlborough Boxing Association want an amateur heavy-weight to match with the local crack, Dan Maloney, at Blenheim on April 30. Mr.-- W. Lamble, the secretary, would like to hear from '■, any budding hope. If there is any nine-stoner handy capable of beating, or thinks he is capable i of beating, Freddy Kerr, he can have the • opportunity at Blenheim on April 30 Secretary Lamblo 'wants some fedder badly. Are you listening, Billy Mack? In answer to Freddy Kerr's challenge to any amateur feather-weight m the Dominion, N. Bennetts, of Epsom, Auckland, says he would very much like to meet Freddy, and stipulates nine stone ring-side. Bennetts has sent me hia private address if any Association requires it. Billy Hannan writes from West Maltland that though defeated he was not disgraced m his bout with Darcy. An- j other match Is spoken of at 10.4, with a side wager of £50. Billy will come across to New Zealand if anything is doing, it he comes, he will bring a "dark horse" along with him. The Wellington Boxing Association, m winding up the season, distributed box- ■ ing gloves to the various cojlcKes and to the Boys' Instltuto and the training ship Amokura. Regarding the Boys' Institute, Judge Cooper, who presided at a meeting there the other evening, said that though all detested prize-fighting ho was glad to see that boxing figured on the sport menu. Boxing, said the judge, enabled a youth or a man to look after himself. This remark from a Supremo Court Judge Is worth noting. The Wowsers, who have never seen a boxing contest In their mlserablo lives, are down on tho sport, because, from their limited vision of things, they consider, the sport brutal and degrading. This Wowser projudlco is a hard thing to contend with, but, fortunately, the Wowser blight, has not got us all down, and the sport is having a good run. Romarks, such as those made by Judge Cooper, are encouraging and tend to show that the Supreme Court Bench is not Infected by* Wowser In Victoria, the Chief Justice. Sir John Madden, is a great advocate of. boxing.

The Wellington Boxing Association showed a profit of £45 9s on Its Carnival Fund tourney. This sum has been handed over. Albert Pooley and Harry Marquet, both Aucklanders, were to supply the main item at the Sydney Stadium on Thursday atterndbn week. Pat Bradley, the Irish-American, accounted for New Zealand Jack Clarke at the Sydney Stadium, a knock-out m the twelfth round doing the trick. "Casey" Hussell, the amateur fedder, who made his first appearance at the Wellington Provincial cham-. pionships, is now m. Auckland. Billy Wenand, who had suffered defeat at the hands of Geo. Taylor m Melbourne, was to have met the latter again at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday evening last. No news has filtered through. L»en. Porter is m trouble. The Wanganui Boxing Association has reported him to the Council for giving sass. Writer regrets that the action has been taken; still, it cannot be denied that liennie looked for it. He should have taken the advice given him. Jimmy Thompson, the Canterbury welter, intends going over to the pro. ranks, and is anxious to hook on with a welter. Jimmy isn't flying too high, and isn't after Lyn Truscott or Denny Murphy. Perhaps a, match can be arranged for him with George Olsen, of Auckland. . Though Dave Smith was billed to meet the Queensland abo., Jerry Jerome, at the Sydney > Stadium on Wednesday of last week, the affair did not come off. Evidently the nigger was not considered class enough for Dave, or obstacles were raised against the abo.'s appearance. The latest "was that "Snowy" Baker was m Brisbane endeavoring to secure Jerry. Bill Senior, the Mlllerton welter-weight, whoso right swing made a mess of Tim Leary on Easter Monday night at Millerton, is, evidently, a welter who will bo heard of In the future. It is to be hoped that the West Coast Associations will send a team to Tlmaru this year. With Jack O'Neill and Bill Senior,' the West : Coast should be hard to beat m the bantam and welter classes. The nomination of officers for the New Zealand Boxing Council close on Monday next, and, so far as this writer can understand, it will be the same old woman, crowd m office again. Nobody seems to know who, and who is not, on the Council, and if the various Boxing Associations are anxious for a change the personnel of the Council should be overhauled. The apathy shown Indicates that tho Associations regard the Council as a sort of hideous practical joke. h I* In his weekly billet to "The Second/ Alfie Broinwich, writing from Wollongong (N.S.W.), says he is matched to meet one Tommy Fitzpatrick on April 4, and Billy Yates on April 12. After that' Alf might come across to New Zealand. Bromwich asks "The Second" to try and get- the -Auckland or Wellington Associations to ,match him with Bob Turner. Alf says it should be a great draw and a splendid contest. Says a writer m the Sydney "Spertsman": "When this scribe spilled into the Stadium on Thursday afternoon it was just m time to see Billy Shields and the shock-headed, poetical- looking Joe An- I drew flying at each other like a brace of infuriated fummies. Referee Marre was often foroed to perform hasty footsack to avoid the .wildly whirling human atoms. BQly got his left listener busted during; the turmoil, and Andrew's kiss-curls were ruthlessly ', disarranged, but there was no need for stretcher-bearers or red-cross, brigade, although the 'spar' was willing and full of wallop." Mr. W. Lambie, secretary of the Marlborough Boxing Association,, must have been impressed with, some of the reports m the daily papers of the Ellis-Thomp-son contest, as on Monday last he wired for "The Second's" advice on the question of persevering with a return match between Ellis and Thompson. My advice was to go on with it. The dally paper reporters seem to have been annoyed at the fact that Bills was not knocked out Certainly something better was expected from Tommy, but it has to be said that ElUa's cleverness was due to tho fact that Tommy kept at him. Certainly, they are entitled to another match, and, m my opinion, tho pair will give a better display when they meet at Blenheim. Some of the difficulties too often experienced by Boxing Association officials have been experienced by Secretary Glass, of tho Dannevirke Association. Matches were made for the Association's tourney m April 9, and first one. then another and then another competitor announced his inability to attend. In a couple of instances the difficulties were surmounted. Syd Porter v - next palled out of his bout with Havill, of Palnierston North, and tho task of getting & suitable opponent was no easy one. "The Second" endeavored to secure B. Stewart, the "Wellington Provincial amateur champion, but without success. Georgo Wilson, another light-woight, was also sounded, but having undergone an operation to his nose, be could not take tho risk. Whether Mr. Glass bad secured what be was after m tho meantime writer is unaware. Still, if it is not too late, and if any lightweight considers himself chus enough to meet Havill, he should communicate with the Donnevirke secretary, j