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NZ Truth, Issue 448, 17 January 1914, Page 6

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Alf Cloodwin brought out his sister and two nieces, this trip, and means to settle iv Australia. Wise guy, Alf! Butting Jack Taylor is back m Sydney from his sojourn m Cobar and dis-, trict, and Is ready for any 11 stone man m the game, Darcy for choice. Freddie Welsh has won another fight m U.S.A. He n»et Johnny Dundee, of New Orleans, on New Year's day, and got the decision m a ten rounds bout. . The Sydney Stadium people want !'ul Brown for another fight. Alf Morey ■ has gone to Brisbane, and if the popular Pal can be induced to stay, a fight with -Morev m that city is offered to hint. One clean-cut fact about the New Year's night debacle m the Sydney Stadium stands out; ami that la that McGoorty can make the 1581 b. .Himray Clabby will be interested In this ..discovery/ for he always averred «h«t he didn't believe that I£ddie could do middle-weight.

Billy ilannan Is m tl* loo!: out for another match, but HvUir'n suitable opponent Is not m siKh- At tins eleventh hour he otftrvd /« t»k« WhiteUiw'h place uguinhi >£Nabb. at Newcastle <N.S.W.). on #w Year's mvrning. but tntro wuu l^ihlus doim;. On Monday night A-ot-k. at iho Sydney Olympla Alhl«t£ Club, when Ku*l Miililand'u UluckrfJlth'rt upprcm ><«•. U-a Dnrey, »lopp<>/ J«««« Clarke, the J^omlon Hebrew. i» win-. r;>»»< 1 ';- proUmlnary waa /uy>pli«*d by 1-Vank Kills, the N.nv father whom Hwk Key* •Wtfrnr**" »nd brought over, and tljai jb"«» ' l » u *te\'er lad. O«h> Newbury. k »»a»ni»ln. The latter innled ».» to »- 0^- X"»bW boxotl ckivcrl.vf»nd endured a lot fur a lad BUflfortn/for a w«>ek lrom inUuvnza. but m k>' owe lllj « •» wo sci " ontinc and qrnol?. oiw! '*>o cooytani m Ullnck for r^wbuo-. and would always bent thn i>MW*V fwtihcr from BalrauJn: who UnwJcf. «ad no reamm to f« i «l tuiliarocd am W«Uly Wtukeu's verdict v'ftal aKi^ 1 fUjrt< |ft^ Ott » r > { tho " <1 who wt/ prejwni wlnt to tlu« r«ct thai he />uk»i tbf baiUo of hl« wvrerr. »«»Jm»t dtlda autl mtv ablMty-

The Murphy-Ireland fight has been fixed to take place at New Plymouth. No date has been arranged yet. Terry Keller says l\e's sure he's. had a gynx on him ever since he came to Australia, and thinks it tim* the thing ■ let bim alone; so he can get a chance to lift a piece of money. Terry is aching for a go at Les O'Donnell, and it would almost certainly be a good go, too. It has beer. agTeed with Harry Stone, the freak peniu3 of New York, that ho will stay m Australia for two more matches. The first of them was against Alf Morey at Brisbane on Saturday last, and the secmd will be with the winner of the McCoy- Wells dispute. Kid, the great colored American light-weiglit. who has been m England for a considerable time, must be going back m his form, for he was outpointed on New Year's night by another of those "titled" Englishes "Bandsman" Blake, on points, m 20 1 rounds, at "The Ring.'' The coon was giving away a stone. A press cable was received at the Sydney Stadium last week announcing that the great French boxer, Carpentier, intends sailing for Australia. This was not from Snowy Baker's j agent and Carpentier has, not communicated with the management here, by cable, since his refusal of the munificent offer made him. J. Holland, a lightweight from Scotland, has arrived m Wellington,, and expresses his intention of settling m "God's Own/ Tim Tracy has taken him in' hand, and on Monday night had him sparring with Denny Murphy m the Willis-street i saloon. The new chum kept Penny .busy for three rounds, and Tim reports that .I)6' shaped \ery well. 1 Matt Wells v. Bert McCoy has been lixe'd for to-night. JThen we shall see whether the fast little Hebrew dancer and suporb boxer can dodge the'vigorous Victorian. On paper McCoy shows" well; he boat Stone and Stone i beat Wells: but of course these perfornianccs against a third parly are not much guide to form In, boxing. Styles differ so much.. Wells, will liavo to work deuced hard,- to s^t down to the weight. .' Les Darcy and his handler, Mick -Hawkins, wore much -annoyed at the lad' being announced us of Newcastle, on Monday ntght last week. "Give us East Maitland every time. Wove no use for. Newcastle, it hasr done nothing for us," sayrf Mick. It js amazing how coolly wrong names ajd wrong habitats are used by boxing promoters and their publicists and announcers. "Herb" for Bert.. Mc£oy and "Albert; 1 for Alec Pooloy, are* .Instances. 11. O'Hallornn whites to "Second" from Auckland to ihe effect that Lou O'Hnllorari, who its at present m Sydney, challeng/s any light-weight m .New Zealand ,£and will be prepared to light four /weeks hence, or eveir nt a later \lat^ r Lou asks for £" expenses; and purso any club may tcf 1 inclined to offer. "Truth" will ibo glad to take chargo of any renU»# to tins challenge and forward the** »n diie course to the proper quarter. .■ ? Harry Mfrquet explains hisj failure to 'keep hi/ date, with Alec Pnotey ' on . New Yea/« nigut/by Maying that ho ate siimi oysterH and they knocked him out./ He writes: "It is hard luck, but It will teach me a Jesson." I«e*8---opeso. ,fllen In training who go m for friHky dishes on the side deserve nil they ,^al — and less., Marquet is youuti but he. should be old enjugh .to know that women, wine, ana oysters lead/to all sorts of complaints. Including/cold feet. / \ ji nn article on the lest arL of punching, London "Boxiug" of a recent date, tit erred thus to Australia's present /isllor, Tom McCormlck: — "Look at i'hem all tound. Take Tom MeCormlck , for instance. He Is a remarkably clover boxer with a lightening loft, yet with a singular lack of k.o. victories (socalled) m his long' list oi" wins. He can stob an opponent a hundred times, perhaps, Jerking his head back every time, and yet he Is enly ocaslonully able to stop them from coming i»u and In to him." Another proof nf what a wonderful good judge of a lighter Tommy Burns Jh not. His latest world-beater, Ar* thur Pel key, whom ho was trying to land on Snowy Baker's hands nt about a dniyload of wheels, was knocked out by Gunboat Smith, n two-stono lighter and inches shorter man, m the fifteenth ruund of a scheduled twenty, at Jimmy Coffroth's Stadium, m H&n Francisco, on N«w Year's dny. Nouh Brutsso got na&ty at tho defeat of his boar cub and ottered to fight Smith, himself. Just a big bluff, Mister Tommy Burns Bryssu l Referees, «j»octatoi<>, nnd boxer* alike "seam to forget that «nly punches with tho knuckle portions of the glove* are supposed to count for points. The whole' theory of boxing hi based on tho practice, of hilling with the raw 'uns, and' «o do not fancy taut ovm tito most nf* dent practitioner* of the open-glove theory would voutuie to approve of any attempt to cliff an opponent m tho eye with one's uiis^cr-tipii. Yetto what el** can opou-glove boxing be compared ? It is not only tho sjuiifi thing m theory, «nd, to a largo extent, m practice, but It Is I" many respect* nn cvvn jnor».» cowardly practice. Kor the extended fSnsr**" puncher, with ban? banders, tho eyegoupor niU, at leant, run the rj**k of breaking a Unv nngern, should hi* i aim for the eye prove nbortlvc, whereas the open jjJovi* boxer Is proKttUni'from this duma^o by hia muftlcrn. ft is tnie J>n»i tin; nijury ho can tnllict I*, m turn, minimtttntf, but ihft unfairness I* m no way Iron*wiml. In the first ca*e he I* able, to »U?al an additional Inch or ho of reach, and In th»» *UH?on«l he Can hardly d«n>< that h« «u»ml* an (*xc*\lent chnno'" of «*vorcly. if only i*ropontrity. endangering M» adversary '» vision.

The game little bantam-weight, •Ike Kutner, has returned from Auckland. Ho will again be seen m the local fistic arena vrhen .opportunity offers. . Bat Costin is some curio m humanity. He is»23, and has been fighting since he was IG. He goes 37 normal, and 41 expansion,'; and has a biceps like a Hackenschmidt. . Joe Waljis, who hasn't been hoard of iv tho ring since he got his napper. bust with a runaway winchr handle, is now m Sydney, and prepared to take on auy middle-weight, har the champion, .Dave Smith. "A big crowd of my old friends have been up to see me m G 'Ward, Sydney Hospital, and brought me everything of the best, and the fellows I have* givon many a pound to hove not bven been up to see me," writes Hock Keys. It has been ordered m Chicago that 1f Jack Johnson does notere'.turn to that city before next April to answer charges übder the Mann White Slave Act, which ho is charged with violating, his personal bond of 30,000 dollars will bo forfeited. Good men, who have their business at heart, attend strictly to training, and give over any side shows while preparing for a contest, will make a lot of money m Australia. But it a boxer is notißtrictly adhering to bis work and taking his business seriously, the public soon g©t to. know, and naturally his power ns a drawing card drops at" once. A. Milton correspondent, m wishing "Truth* a* happy and a prosperous New. Yoav," writes: "I am a constant reader myself : In fact, I wouldn't be without my bible, 'Truth, 1 on Sunday for all the Wowsers In tho Dominion. t don't think a man need look past I 'Truth* for anything— especially racing I tips, which arc very acceptable to us !in this far south corner , of tho Do- } minion." ! Two young Port Chalmers (Dunedln) boxers have just gone to Sydney to try their luck In any matches that may bo offering— either amateur or professional. George Mnthowson, the amateur heavy-weight champion of Australasia, is only 24 years of age, and has had considerable experlonoe m both middle and heavy-weight work. George 1-ane, a feather-weight, Js game and clever for ono'who la selftaught. Ho la not yot twenty, find will certainly have to face defeat when ho meets men with more experience than himself. But, with the increaaed opportunities !»o will have -lcrosa the water, ho is sure to "make good." Father Bernard Vaughun ngain spills pearls of wisdom. "Wo want more simple, straight hitting between tho eyes, and' not below tho belt. I havo never been able to understand why any person, unless he b« wholly and hopelessly anndmic, has any objection to boxing, for it is so conceived thut th« central idea of it -Is 'for- tho killing of tho «noak j owl the pris; It ai»«H. at nothing mean, und it makes men: it is a natural and hoalthy sport; to thoso ' who engage m it, an intensely U k " ' nhlo Sport. Its very virility, its ' nmnlinoss, iho dinciplino it oxacU,. givca us n fnUrbloodori youth and < makes tho "tolerant "man. Only the ' humbug would have none of it. It has done, It is doing, und will nlwayfi do, incalculable good, more oslx»ciaHy among tho boys of the pQo»" urxl thiekly-pouulnt«l district*. No lndK' club could over hope tr> lie n success without - boxing — without i fighting, if you will. Tho trouble is that IU its natural- | ne«M. «nd manliness are non»ptlni«* i not conceded. I want by boxiui? to turn tho bt?«st out of tho boy. • F,vpry lad who* lon ni? boxing hns a { mark not inoroly on hSs nose, but on t his character. 1-K» m quiet. mod«\t and self-conndent. . Tho boy who j founts boxing lights Htraiftht.!' - Thus tho Sydney Bulletin: Pal 1 Brown"a evil luck I* nlmont a* ureftt ■ r» Wnldomar llolberh-'H, He aUirttd ' bis AuHtmllun career *-.lth o ■ senna- j ilonnl win over Hugh to Mchegun, and t hn« not won v n«ht nine*; 'hough, Hwivcn UhowH, bo bus done all a boxer , could do to win. On Boxing Night be j mot Mchofltun In n return flf lit at Melbourn^ Studlum. und tblM time Mche- • won. It was a veiy clqs> thing. c but Mtrbepiin got tho vonliftl. Tho ( A'uHtnUiurt bud In hi blmsflf out to ac- ( ' tjuiro «ptjcd, nn«l Bucceeded, for frotr ihc opening round bo Hbowctl |>ace which for hlm'waH mnrv«'Hou». In iho « iKjglnning Brown m«do tho ml« ? oko of mixing It with tlm !ur.-d -hilling aub- 1 irallan. but got ba»Hy punlHl»«Ji «kp«- * dally about Uui body. In tbo Isngrango nKbtlng the handsoma American boy »eorcd with a b<^autiful stralsh* jj loft which drew blood; but M«hegajo would ruub to clofle quarter*, wfcera f hs *;oulU bold bin own, In thft •»ev«l»lh, o Brown all but. got ulci imn. Mobo{?iui t \yn» jammeil on th« ."opcit, and BroMrn wast hurling them hi hoi »ml ftroug, l! kvh«n Mch^'gnn dropjxu! \x\h gtwrd to j Ul. tind Drown tlfov* In a tt*rrln»? Sef* which nearly drnppn.'t ih« AuJCrnlJan. rbfr «t»ns:. iiow^vor. snvi'd Mcii^Kun, & fc-ho rocked visibly «« h«> ;vrni t<> blf tl jornrr. An thn iwrnp went on. M«*ho« snuB sj>e<?«l b«»r».n •,«» dt«» nxt*y. ««itl 'I Brown commonwd io mnkt* up Mn t( etevf».y; but m tin- opinion of the re* tor**} ho hud not dono »<« whttt tne y mtti« entk-d. Thvra wu* Krt-ja »«»• y nmi &* to ihf neeuracy at the «l©c - J iioh>