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NZ Truth, Issue 509, 20 March 1915, Page 10

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When the last mail to hand left Sydney, no Sydney Stadium scrap for the Saturday evening had been arranged. L,en Grant, the amateur feather, who has put up some good whirlwind mills m Clirintchurch. has deposited his card at "Truth" office, and invites a mill ! with anyone m his own class, Ernie Morris, who bas been matched i with Norman V email at Christchurch. is under the disadvantage of having j too few sparring partners at Kaiapol. Nevertheless. h« is In good nick, and is pure to make Vornall uncomfortable. ' It is extremely unlikely that .1. .1, Corbet t will bo seen m New Zealand, at any rate as a. monologue nrtist. From a good source the writer glennx ! that .1. J. iTorbett, as a vaudeville arlis(. is :i very expensive importation, ami thru vanduvllk- patronage lit New /calami will not permit of a tour. Let's keep on hoplns. According to an American paper «*orl>< > v m Hnn Franchco wa« m receipt of 750 dollar* per week. H tnlxht be unpor money, hut one or two who !•; •• honrd Corbett m America r.>ckr>r im par excellence as a story- teller.

Jimmy Thompson has opened a wallop academy at Sydenhani, Chrißtchurch, and, while waiting' for matches with aspiring: welters, will teach the young idea to look after, itself. It is still doubtful if Les O'Donnell will come to New Zealand, and meet Alick Pooley at Auckland. If the services of O'Donnell cannot be secured surely there are other heavy-weights available. . i Though it is looking rather ahead, the Christchurch Sports Club are out bright and early endeavoring to secure Alick Pooler's consent for a j match next August. Alick's possible opponent will be Joe Sharplin. Our 'jovial friend, Pat O'Keefe, who was beaten balmy m Sydney as far back as 190S, when he was here as , Tommy Burns' sparring partner, is still going strong m his second time on earth, m England. ' At the West London Stadium, recently, he knocked Joe Beckett out m the Bth round by means, so the cable man informs us, of a Dinny Hayeser m the hot air reservoir. As Australian light-weight champion, Herb MeCoy will be kept busy for some time to come. His first opponent will be the youthful Yankee Hebrew, who styles himself "Young Abe Attell," whom he meets m Melbourne this (Saturday) evening. Attell will be making his Australian debut, and it will be watched with much interest, as he is said to be very clever and elusive, so much so as to have been dubbed "The Denver Phantom." "Dummy" Penrose meets Shutt next Saturday at Christchurch. Shutt is In thcj midst of his training operations, whilst Penrose, under the wing of Sandy Jack, promises to fulfil all that's expected of him. Penrose is sparring with Grant, Vernall and Billy Hall. He is m the pink of condition and can last the fifteen rounds without turning a hair. With a pair like Shutt and Penrose, however, it seems certain that something will happen long beforo the mill goes the full journey. Alick Pooley wants it known by the Boxing Associations m. the that he is willing to take on any heavy-weight that the country can produce. If the country cannot pro- \ duce any, he is willing to take on. any that can be Imported. . Alick nominates an import m the shape Of Gordon Coghill, the same who m the Australasian championships at the Sydney Stadium burst the Sid. Fitzsimmons boom. Now, which Association is going to be enterprising enough. Don't all speak at once, or out of their turn. Writer clips the following bit of bad news from the last Sydney "Sports- , man" to, hand: — "Denny Murphy was to have sparred with Les Darcy at. to- ;- morrow's matinee, but a cable came to Sydney on Tuesday which read: 'Send address of Denny Murphy. Death m family.' As the. poor fellow's only relatives m Now Zealand are his wife and child it is of course impossible for him to appear, and he will probably bo forced to again return to the Dominion." "The Second" trusts that there has been' a mistake somewhere. Frank Ellis, writing from Bondi, N.S.W., states that ho had been matched to meet Marcel Denis, at Brisbane, on Saturday night last, and though the notice given him was a short one, he hoped to win. Since Frank wrote, however, the Stadium authorities Had substituted Marcel Lepreaux as his opponent. Frank further Intimates that he had heard it suggested that there was 1 a likelihood of a match being, arranged. by the Wellington Boxing Association between' Billy Elliot and he, and accordingly Frank is delighted, and expressed his willingness to come across, as the trip would do him the world of good. Artie Powell was to have fought Alf Bromwich. the New Zealander, at Cessnock on Saturday, 6th inst (says "Sydney Sportsman"), and .he 'and Harry Lennard were on tho spot to finish training and advertise the show. Bromwich, however, hurt his left hand on Joe Grlm's thick head, land, rather than disappoint the public, Fred Carrick the now promoter, wired to Sydney for Jack Frost to take Alf's place. They fought twenty fast twominute rounds to the general delight; but, as the local miner (Bromwich) was not m it, the houso was poor; so Carrick very generously refused to take anything out of it and gave the lot to the boxers. Bromwich thinks he could stop Powell m six rounds, and wants a fight m a month from last Friday for £20 aside. Artie is willing. Harry Lennard has matched Jimmy Holden with the local lad, Jacky Hall, for next Friday week. Fred Slorbeck, the South African heavy-weight, lost to. Jerry Jerome at Brisbane under the following circumstances: Shortly after the bell had gone for the second round, Jerome connected with a smashing left swing to the jaw. Storbeck went down, but at the count of three partially rose. Hearing, however, advice from the ringside to tako the full' nine seconds, he went down again, thus Infringing the rule stating that a boxer .shall lose the tight if he goes down without being struck. Referee Driscoll thereupon placed his hand on Jerome's head, su denoting him as the winner. Concerning this unsatisfactory, though nevertheless correct, decision, a Brisbane writer says: Technically the decision wns correct, and no fault can bo found on that score, but. seeing that a dclibevato foul was overlooked m the preceding round, it would have been moro reasonable under the circumstances If the count had beon carried straißbt on. especially as Storbeck's hands had hardly left the mat. From the .showing made, by tho South African m the little distance tl/e hrM went, it appenred that he wns In for a bad time, and the verdict would probably have gone In the same, direction even if the end had not cotrfe when It did. The respective weights of the men were: Storbeek, M.2; Jerome, 11.5). Concerning what happened In the second round it aeonirf that at the close of the round Storbeck. who seemed quite at sea so fnr ns having any plan of fiction was concerned, closed with Jerome, and while m the clinch deliberately delivered a hnrd kidney punch, for which he w»s cautioned by the referee. In tho light of what happened m the next round it would nccm ' that the referee, to bo. consistent, \ should hove done more than caution him.