HAQERTY MEMORIAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 568, 6 May 1916, Page 11

HAQERTY MEMORIAL.

£ b d Amount previously acknowledged "..-.. , 5 4 0 ,W. V. Whitta, Chrlstohurch. 1 10 6 5 0 What has become of Frank Ellis? Nothing has boen heard of the Wellington lad for some time past. Surely, he has not developed Into a back- number?

PUG PARS. George Taylor and Wave Geike figure at the Brisbane Stadium [this (Saturday) evening. Frank O'Connor was given the chance to meet "Rough-house" Burns at the Sydney Stadium last Saturday evening, by*. he refused to make lOst. ) What a splendid Boxing Council We have m New; Zealand. ■' Anzac Day has come and gone, 'and nothing was done tv memorialise poor Jimmy Hagerty. I Jew Edwards and Bert Spargo have a return match at the Melbourne Stadium this (Saturday) evening. The same result, viz., an easy win for Spargo cari.be anticipated. Apparently, lies Darcy is up antf about again, as he has been definitely matched to meet the Roumanian. Alex. Ccftica, at the Sydney Stadium next Saturday evening, May 13. ■ ' ; There is a likelihood of the Wellington Boxing Association taking a h,aud m the movement to perpetuate the .memory of the late Jimmy Hagerty. It is to be hoped that this is not a mere promise and that : something will be done. What are other boxing associations doing? The Sydney Stadium scrap stunt this (Saturday) evening will be provided by the American. Eddie Moy, and Australia's Herb McCoy. It is to be hoped that McCoy will figure better against Moy than he did against Stone. Incidentally, it might be mentioned that McCoy is clamoring for another match with Stone, and would like to meet him InxMeTbourne. ■:■ ■> ■ Tommy Uren, eniboldened by his easy win over Harry Stone, i 3 hotfooted after Herb McCoy's lightweight title. The meeting of the Australian pair, would clear the fistic atmosphere somewhat. If McCoy is to" be Judged on his showing against Stone, the Vfatorian is -a back-number, arid must .give way to Uren, who is m the heyday of his youth. ; "Knock-out" Brown's Australian career has concluded^ and the Greek is now homeward bound. Wait till he arrives m America. He's bound to loudly lament that he was "robbed" of the decision when Darcy defeated him. As a matter of fact, the statement has already appeared m the newspapers that Brown was robbed of the decision m his first fight with Darcy. j The mail on Monday morning last i brought to light a cheque 'for one guiaea for the Jimmy Hagerty Memorial Fond from Mr. W. V. Whitta, the well-known Christchurch sport. "The Second" has much pleasure m acknowledging the receipt of the guinea, which goes to show that the sports are liven* irig up to the fact that this Memorial Fund wants hurrying along. Now that Mr. Whitta has given a lead, it is to be trusted others will follow. They all come back, or at any rate they think they can. From Sydney comes word that there Is a likelihood of Dave Smith meeting Jimmy Clabby at the Sydney Stadium on the Saturday evening of May 20. Does Dave mean it? If he does he is making a huge mistake. On the other hand, Smith has always been a great favorite with the Sydney fans, and Clabby's defeat by Smith would mean much to Dave, who, presumably, would not be above taking <m L«s Darey for the middleweight of the world. " Smith's return to the ring will be watched with' Interest In "New Zealand. ■ "T.ho Second" Is indebted tb Mr. B. SutcHffe, of Martori. for the. following bit of. information, concerning the knocl«-out of Dave Smith by Jimmy Clabby at the Sydney Stadium on July 25.1914. Mr. Sutaliffe writes! "Clabby fought Dave Smith on July 25, 1914, ut the Sydney Stadium and knocked him out m tho first round, the fight lasting lmln 20secs. Smith was appealing with his left hand 'during a clinch and.' Clabby landed on uppercut which finished the light. It took about two mlnutj's to bring Smith round, and even when he was back m his corner he seemed half stuplfled and ■ •Joshed'- out at hlfi seconds as If he thought he was stjll fighting." Mr, Sutcliffe also rVcalls the fact that he was present at the Clabby-McGoprty ttfjbt when McGoorly lost on a foul. This Information should settle the argument of the Featherston soldiers. The Lord Mayor of Sydney, the Right Honorable U: D. Mengher. Speaker 'ut the Legislative Assembly, unvfeiled the Boxers' Roll of Honor at the Sydney Stadium recently. His Bpeech ' was most apt, and he made two bull's-eyes when hu alluded to the "tincture of melancholy" attached to a pleasing duty, by the fact that after qulvo d. number of the names appeared the letter "K." meaning that he who had borne it had given his life to tho causo. The other was when ha touched ull hearts by alluding to the prjde of a fallen inan'fe child who could point to a name on that roll and say, "That'B my daddy." Boxers had been cruelly, wickedly* and falsely aspersed by people wholet their dislike for the manly sport run away with their discretion, In the matter of the number enlisted; though, as a fact, m proportion to their numbers, more soldiers had gone from the ranks of boxing than from any other department of sport. . (Cheei's.) They wanted no clarion trumpet about It; they just modestly and manfully enlisted and went and suffered and died like the true men they were. (Cheers.) They only wanted their rights, and not to be aspersed,

Jimmy Hill has signified his willingness to give the veteran Frank Thorn" a chauce to win, from, him the title of featherweight champion of Australia^ land it is likely that the pair will meet m Brisbane at an early date, A ; A match which is being mooted m "Sydney would be worth seeing if only for tho slog which it would provide. Colin Bell has hurled a "defi" at Eddie McGoorty and i$ rests for the American :to say whetheivhe is agreeable. \o meet Bell., If lie i^ willing, there will be a fight. •■■- . ■;■• ... £' ,:vv- •■• Hurry Reeve is doing better than any other fighter m England, at the present time, but he writes tp a Sydney friend Jtbat though he, has &£ 100 Up as* a. stake |for a fight with either "Billy "Wells or « Diclc Smith, neither will come at it, ana" •he reckons they are afraid of him. .-Harry was to have three fights m a week, at London, Liverpool, and Newcastle, and considered he should win them all. Two were to be 15 and one 20 rounds. Reeve* {was a ; munition worker at Woolwich Arsenal, out expected to be m the^i Middlesex* RegiI'inent. ■ . \U ■' "-' "-. ; . : ,','" : "" • :i ■' :■ ; . -■•-,v.i K.- - •;.■■ Ju'Wi