PUG PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 6

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The Sydney Stadium scrap this (Saturday) evening will be between Bert McCay (Victoria) and Johnny Griffiths (U.S.A.). ; Billy, Hannan tasted defeat at the Sydney Olympia on Tuesday evening week/- when he marked k.o. by Tom Uren, enscrolled on his pecord. The fight; generally, was tame, and Hannan got it m the eleventh, a hard right cross doing: the trick. On Saturday evening, October 3, Hughie Mehegan is to meet the Frenchman, Louis Le Ponthieu, at the Sydney Stadium. It is quite likely that Mehegan and Kay will meet m Melbourne at Cup time to decide the^ light-weight championship of Australia. „ -.. ' A special boxing tournament, under the auspices' of the Otago Boxing Association will be held m His Majesty's Theatre, , Dunedin, on Tuesday arid Wednesday evenings, 22nd and 23rd There is to be a mammoth "programme and the proceeds are to be given m aid of the Dunedin Relief Fund. '•Truth", bespeaks a bumper house. In "Boxing," of July. 18, Dr. T. J. Pryce- Jenkins, the medical man who attended Colin Bell on the eve of . his fight .with Billy Wells, had an article over his own signature, explaining the nature of the big Australian's illness. According to the doctor, Bell's appearing m the ring at alii to risk even the lightest blow on the head, was something worthy of the' Victoria Cross; The last American light-weight to arrive m Australia, is Johnny Griffiths, who. is to make his ■ appearance ; m Sydney to-night (Saturday). This classy boxer wit i meet Bert McCoy m i the Stadium, .and.it should be a great' contest, as the two seem splendidly, matched. In America . Griffiths has a reputation very little below that of the champions. He is quartered at the Darling Point Hotel, South Head-road, where there is' an excellent gymnasium. , ' _ • '.■■'■ >: t ' De'nny Murphy has intimated to: writer'Tthat he has accepted the offer of • ''ttre^newly-f orined'^whangarei ' Boxing .Association of .the position of instructor, and Denny accordingly takes up his duties at once. The Association is, to be congratulated on the selection of such a capable boxer as Denny, and as it is the intention of the Association to have the noble art taught m the school, Whangarei may be expected to produce some "hopes" m the future. i Denny will be, free at any time to take on anybody who. comes along and a wire to Whangarei will find him. ! A formidable .'. task is to be set Mick ' King, who recently gained the title of middle-weight champion of Australia. To-night (Saturday), m Sydney Stadium, Mick is to have a go with the American middle-weight, Gus Christie. There will be some fighting here. Christie is both, puncher and boxer, and only the very top-notchers of the boxing world — folks like McGoorty, Mike Gibbons, etc.- — have ever been able to get the- best of him. Brace your loins, Mick, and get ready your .11.7 inch siege guns! Tou ure a good fighter yourself, and have another good lighter to meet. . Aroused by the suggestion of a contemporary that the desire of women to witness boxing bouts is a sure sign of decadence, "Boxing" threw off the following: — • . Oh, woman; m your hours of ease, Eschew the boxing bout. Do please, For wo are told by scribbling men, That Empires fall and totter when You witness scenes of slaughter. In ancient Rome you gathered round, And watched the fury and the sound Of gladiators, bold and fierce, Who sought each other's heart to pierce, /And thus to ruin brought her. . So ladies, here upon our knees, We beg you suve our Empire, please, Gaze not upon th£ nose when red. Prom blackened optics turn your head, And don't you think you oughterV