PUG PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 441, 6 December 1913, Page 3

PUG PARS.

Pat Bradley has determines to take a rest. The Taumaranui Association "will hold a tourney on December 19. Are we going to have any scraps during the Exhibition? Search me. A New Zealand ex-pugr. scabbed on the Maunganul to Sydney last week. The Summers-Burns fight will eventuate at Melbourne next Saturday. Alf. Bromwich will act m the capacity of referee at the Taumarunui Association's tourney. It is almost certain that Jimmy' Clabby, accompanied by M. K. An- . Drews, will visit Australia. Nelson ami Wolgast having agreed to fight, it behoves Corbett and Fitzsimmous to get busy again. Bromwich hopes to set another match with Cook at Timaru. Alf. is i confident of turning the tables. The two Syds (Stags and Burns) provide the welter- weight whack at the Sydney Stadium to-night. Negotiations are still going on with Willie Ritchie, the world's lightweight champion, for contests m Australia. Bert McCoy, after another match m Sydney, will then take a spell' m Melbburne until the American contingent arrives. tßilly Hannan and Joe White, of Newcastle, are to decide differences at •West Maitland (N.S.W.) .next Saturday night. The purse is worth 100 quid. After meeting the winner of the Hoiberg-Picato contest, Johnny Summers will take a rest, and get ready for the coming Englishman, T.om.McCormick. . Negotiations with the great .Frenchman Georges Carpentier.are still proceeding. It is very doubtful whether the "idol" of Gay Parec can be tempted to visit the Antipodes. ' Jimmy Hill, now feather-weight champion, has not boxes m Sydney since he beat Charlie Simpson last June. He will, however, bo given a match against George Taylor during December. • :■ At Tamworth ' (N.S.WJ fights .; o committee of citizens roosts on the stage with a commission to stop the war if they think the men are not fighting all out liummy go, what? The inference is 'strong that Arthur Pelky "realised" the falsity bt- his confession as soon as Tommy Burns; made a satisfactory' .^financial state*; ment. They, are friends again. ; • Archie Aaair, of pisbprne,. accepts the challenge issued 'by , aidrris, of Morrinsville, providing any Association can accommodate th'e v two. He is also prepared to meet any featherweight within the Dominion. It is freely 'circulated m the. States that Ritchie wants to get Welsh to San Francisco. (Ritchie's homo town) and fight him. "The Second" thinks he's dodging about pending big offers from Australia. Hock Keys, after his victory over Bob Turner, was to have, met tho Englishman, Alf. Spencely,' m Mefbourne. Owing, however, to an injury sustained to his hand In his encounter, with; Turner, Hock had to cry tho match off. Six Yankee boxers have left San Francisco by the Sonoma under engagement to Snowy Bake;;. They include. Eddie McGoorty, whose; first opponent will be Pal Bradley. • Ray Bronson, who will be matched for the world's welter championship, is another of the team. Before a small and somewhat sarcastic congregation, at tho Sydney Stadium, Colin Bell accounted tor Pat Doran m sixteen rounds. Bell's teiriblo rights to the body and an occasional shift and left swing to the other side, workod havoc with Pat's stamina, Jeff Smith and his wife sailed? from London for Sydney yesterday. His first opponent is not yet decided upon, but ho will be one of McGoorty's partners before tye. leaves; Smith can fight as a middlo or mid-heavy-weight, so he's a handy man to have around. Billy Elliott and Jim Barry fought every moment of ten two-minuio rounds, as un hors d'ouvro to tho O'Donnell -Jerome tight, and kept tho crowd on tho simmer all the while. Barry fought remarkably well, but Elliott was his superior m skill and outpointed him nicely. In a (Wrestling contest at Parts, JackJohnson, tho boxer, defeated Urback, tbe German champion. There wero disorderly scenes. Several of tho spectators wore arrested. Hai also met and defeated the Lfbertan. Spoul, who waa persistently and ferociously fouling. Johnson eventually felled him with a blow. Now that McCoy has beaten Pal Brown, the Wellington Boxing Association is now, no doubt, feeling sorry that it did not "import" McCoy some time back. Tho reason glvon tha4 McCoy was not brought over was that his terms of "£IOO, win, lose, or draw," was too big. Now the Victorian is probably talking m thousands. The pugs generally do whou thoy make a hit. Tho poor showing made by Len. Porter against tho Dane, Waldemar Holberg, will seriously militate against Len. getting any decent matches under the management of "Snowy" Baker. Baker l»as been victimised so often that ho doesn't givo second chances to anyone, and he Is not Hkoly to make an exception with Lon Porter. Probably Len. will again reckon ho has been "rooked." His himentaUonß will not do blm any good m Australia. It will cot take aim long to realise that tact.