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NZ Truth, Issue 579, 22 July 1916, Page 11

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Bert Spargo meets the American, Aries Fanning, at the Melbourne Stadium this (Saturday) evening. Sergeant Erl ("Mick") ' Stewart Is leaving on active service. "Mick" is the well-known Wellington amateur light-weight. The Sydney Stadium "scrap" this (Saturday) evening will be between Tommy Uren and Fred Kay. It should be clever if nothing else. Jimmy Hill and Llew Edwards were to have met at the Melbourne Stadium on Saturday night last. Particulars should be to hand next week. Sid Sullivan got out of it with "a draw" at the Sydney Stadium recently, when he met one Syd Godfrey. The latter proved a tough nut. The New Zealander, Harry Marquet, figured at the Sydney Stadium recently, when he boxed three fast and furious rounds with Dave Smith. The Dunedin amateur, Denny "Borehara, is m camp at Featherston. What a splendid response the boxers of New Zealand have made to the call of King and Country. , Tbe date has riot been fixed for the return match between Jimmy Clabby and Les Darcy. As Clabby knocked out Fritz Holland m Melbourne the match should be on the tapis shortly. Our one-time great featherweight, Joe Russell, who has a decision over Harry Stone, will return to the boxing ring m Brisbane on July 29, when he will meet the winner of the RyanFitzgerald fight. According to an American paper to hand, Tom Andrews, the well-known Milwaukee boxing authority, who is "Snowy" Baker's American agent, has offered George Chip a guarantee of 10,000 dollars for four fights m Australia, one of which will be with Les Darcy. It is considered likely that Chip will make the trip. Dave Smith's record since he "came back" is, lost on points to Jimmy Clabby, won on points from Colin Bell; k.0., by Les Darcy, and a surrender to Buck Crouse, 12 rounds. Still, the gate percentages m each case have been large, and it must have paid the New Zealander. However, it is evident that Dave has done his dash. Jack Dunleavy, writing from St. Paul, Minn.,, the home town of Mike Gibbons, on June 8, says that he has been mobbed, since his arrival, with inquiries as to Les Darcy and his form; though the Paulines reckon that - Mike can lick anything that talks. Jack did not sco "the Phantom," as he was away at the Hot Lakes. Dunleavy had a great send-off by the Mission boys and tho Australian theatrical folk m San Francisco at the time, and was compelled to make a speech from the ring. Bennie Palmer, the Mexican lightweight member of the new bunch from America, is a handsome, brown-skinned lad of twenty-one, with a pair of very dark brown, almost j black, eyes, of piercing quality. He speaks English better than 'most Americans and appears to be a most intelligent lad. Benny ca.n do 9.7, but will probably be content tb do our l.w. limit, 1351 b. lie is greatly taken with the gratuitous kindness and politeness of the Sydney folk he has met. "In America they have no time for politeness," says Bennie. Jimmy Clabby made no mistake when he fought Fritz Holland at the Melbourne Stadium a couple of weeks back. He knocked him out m the sixth round. When Holland and Clabby met at the Sydney Stadium some time ago, they went the full twenty rounds, and there was little to choose between them. Evidently Clabby has developed a punch, He will need it, if he Is to have a chance with Les Darcy. The pair are down to meet at the Sydney Stadium this (Saturday) evening for the middleweight championship of tho world. ; Bob Moha is the latest middleweight champion (m America), and according to one 80-called authority, if Dillon or Gibbons will agree to fight Moha over the 20-round route, " I have 1000 dollars to bet on Bob winning. I have seen the others fight, but the way Moha Is going now, I think it will bo a sure thing for him to beat either one of them over the long distance. Many people imagine that Bob depends entirely on the route strength, but they will be badly fooled m a long match or even m a short one, for he has shown more cleverness m his boxing than any of the mlddleweights around the west, and he is certainly as strong as a bull when it comes to roughing it. They talk about Bonding Gibbons or Dillon over to meet Darcy m Australia for tho world's title. Well, you can take the tip from me that if I hud anything to say, it would be Moha who would be going instead of uny of tho others."

The American lightweight, Benny Palmer, has cuttings showing that he has a newspaper decision over tho world's famous lightweight, Fred Welsh. A busy time is ahead m Melbourne for Herb McCoy. On July 29 he opposes Eddio Moy; two weeks later he | will meet the recently-arrived Mexican lightweight, Benny Palmer. ! Kay and Uren are bound down to wel- | ter limit, 10.7, for their fight at the Stadium this (Saturday) evening. This prevents the middleweight title, held by Kay, from being involved. The American featherweight, Aries Fanning, is a very likely looking lad, standing sft 7iu., very tall for a featherweight. Arrangements are being made for him to have an early start. No contest has yet been arranged for the latest middleweight importation, Art Magirl. He Is built on very powerful lines and certainly looks the goods. He will probably be seen m action m Sydney on August 12. There is every likelihood of tho Darcy-Smith fight picture being shown m New Zealand. It is said to be a faithful representation of a fight which was practically a world's championship contest. The fans all over the Dominion should be on the lookout for this light. We get so little or fighting, that even a picture would be a god-send. All the New York papers roasted Mike Gibbons over his: tight with Kid Lewis. The "Journal" summed up thus; "After seeing Gibbons last night we are almost ready to forgive Brighton Beach. We have an idea that Mike can't do any better, that he is one overrated bird who has been, m the end, apprehended." The "American" headed its account: "Lewis defeats Gibbons. Briton o'utgames rival. Ted Kid also outiights St. Paul Wizard m ten-r«ind bout at Garden." One of its little sentences is significant It reads: "Lewis fought Gibbons as if Mike was just a regular fighter, instead of being a headliner!"It does not say much for the Boxing Associations of New Zealand, and particularly the Wellington body, that little, If anything, is being done, or has been done, to promote tournaments for the soldiers In camp. All the best boxers of the Dominion, at some time or other, have been In camp ait either Featherston or Trentham, and all the boys have been willing to box, but the Association which should have come to the front, has kept very much In the rear. "The Second," however, is not unmindful of tho fact that that good sport, Mr. Whatman, of Masterton, has done his bit m the direction mentioned, but Mr. Whatman cannot do everything. "The good old English sport" appears to .be rapidly changing hands. We have had Germans, Frenchmen, Greeks, aboriginals, negroes, and even a Roumanian, In the Sydney Stadium ring of late; and a cutting sent to "Boxer-Major" m Sydney, from St. Paul, Minn., June 8, by Jack Dunleavy, informs me that Kewpie Ertle, bantam champion of the world, goes to St. Louis to box young Kabbokoff. These are Austrian and Russian, so they should certainly provide a fight, m view of the present relations between the two countries. The saints be praised, the manager of Ertle (also of Dunleavy) is Mike McNulty! Jack was to accompany Mike and Stewpie to St. Louis. At Dayton (Ohio), late m May last, Ted Lewis knocked out Eddie Moha, of Milwaukee, m the thirteenth round of their scheduled 15-round bout. After flooring Moha with a left to the jaw at the opening of the thirteenth round, Lewis battered his oponent until the referee stopped the bout, as Moha was helpless. It was an even fight for the first ten rounds. Moha, a harder hitter than Lewis, broke through the Englishman's guard repeatedly with stinging wallops that made the Britisher back up. A left hook of his knocked Lewis against the ropes m the eighth round, but ho came back and shot lefts and rights into Moha's mldsectlon. Lewis set a terrific pace after* the tenth round, and the Milwaukeee boy was unable to withstand the attack. Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul middleweight, is sore at the panning he received by New York writers after his I match with Kid Lewis. Writing from St Paul to one of the scribes regarding tho matter, Mike says: "Dear Sir,— After reading tho accounts of my bout with Ted Lewis I havo come to tho conclusion that several New York writers do not know anything about the boxing game. I have been pannod for not knocking Lewis out, but when v man enters a contest with the sole Intention of avoiding a knockout It Is a very hard thing to do In ten rounds. One writer In particular panned me for not finishing Lewis after 1 had knocked him down, but he was tho only person present who saw a knockdown. I have won over Clabby, McGoorty, Ahearr. and Jen* Smith, and as I am a secondrater, according to certain New York scribes, 1 think I have done fairly well. I am also accused of picking soft ones, but I will allow the New York sponlnß writers to seloct my next opponent. He can weigh anywhere from 150 to 160 pounds at 3 o'clock, and if Dillon is unable to make this weight ho can come m heavier. I will box anyone you select and if some of the wise ones who say I am golnt; to want back some of my money I will give them ih<s opportunity to take U. I hope you fo&lova can get together on thl» as I urn anxious to show that I was unfuirlv na»ined.*