NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 571, 27 May 1916, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tommy Uren and Harry Stone were to have met at Melbourne on Saturday night last. This (Saturday) evening at the Melbourne Stadium, Mick King: and Fritz Holland provide the fistic attraction. _. The American Eddie Moy and Farnand Quendreux figure as principals at the Brisbane Stadium this (Saturday) evening. Eddie McGoorty has not! tied the Sydney Stadium authorities that he is not prepared to meet Colin Bell on the night of June 3, and has asked for a postponement of the match till the end of that month. In Sydney, the claims of Les O'Donnell for a match against I Colin Bell are beimj pushed. It ; fetus been definitely decided that ; Jimmy Hill and Frank Thorn will have ;a go for the featherweight , championship of Australia, m Brisbane, on June 3. The champion, Hill; will have to be at his top to beat veteran Thorn, who, if his hands stand, will give Hill the go of his life . : The big thing at the Sydney Stadium this (Saturday) evening will be the fight between Les Darcy and Buck Crouse. Buck will need to buck up some, or at any rate he will need to give a better exhibition than Costica, otherwise the Yankee pugs will be out for keeps m Sydney. j Mick Dunn, the old-time pug, now a resident of Sydney, is m receipt of an I interesting letter and photo from Ted Robbie, from camp m Egypt. Ted has gone through a course of gunnery at Zeatoun. He tells of a. very smart New Zealand ten'-stoner, named George Thomas, who fought a lightweight named Christie, from India, and knocked him out m one and a half rounds. In Brisbane Stadium on Saturday night, May 13, "Roughhouse" Burns met a rougher m the sturdy French-, man, Fernand Quendreux, and was outpointed In a furious twenty rounds; Burns has now had three' fights, and the only man he has defeated was the I slim but hard-hitting Matt Murphy, who was Just the kind of man he would bo expected to wear down by sheer strength and rush. Burns has proved ianything but a champion, but he's a • nice-mannered well-behaved young fellow, and a trier every time; and is still a popular figure m fistic circles: Quendreux must be fighting very well to have defeated him. A few weeks ago "The Second 1 ' recorded the fact that the ex -amateur from Palmerston North, Billy Shields, had enlisted m Australia, and at the time of writing was m camp at Brisbane (Q.). Billy has since written intimating that he has gone to the front. Since donning khaki this lad has put up a creditable record m the ring. Of eight fights he won seven, one being a. draw. His record runs: Beat Billy Murray, 3r., k.0.; drew Ed. George, 6i\: beat J. Hoare, 2r., k.0.; beat Burns, llr., k.0.; beat W. Black, lr., k.0.; beat Godfrey, 2r., k.0.; beat Billy Murray, 6r., on points; beat Silver Corbett, 12r., k.o. The last two fights took place at the Brisbane Stadium. • The promptness of the management and the shrewdness of Bluey McCarthy m urging, that substitutes Cole and Hart should be ready and so avoid delay if the intlcipations regarding Costica yrere realised, probably prevented a riot at the Stadium on Saturday Bight, May 13. Before the angered patrons could get out of hand, George Dent (the Sydney Stadium announcer), was In the ring waving the crowd back to their seats and hustling Darcy 'and Costica and their seconds out of it; while simultaneously the two crack, lightweights hopped m, stripped and gloved It was worth £60 to the Stadium, but nothing like that sum was paid to the ready lads, one of whom, through Injury m the ensuing flght. will probably be out of employment for several months. » ■-' / .