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NZ Truth, Issue 606, 27 January 1917, Page 11

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' Little if anything is heard of Frank Ellis these warlike days. Surely he has not enlisted. He could do worse. Tommy Uren and Fred Kay are due for another match at Melbourne next : Saturday evening. This will be their i fifth "go." February 10 has been fixed as the date of the match between the heavyweights Colin Bell and Jim Tracey. They meet at the Sydney Stadium. Jimmy Clabby has asked for a cut at Tommy Uren, m Sydney; m four weeks' time, and will doubtless get it Tom is out to fight as often as possible. . ~ Just precisely what is on tap m Melbourne this (Saturday) evening, it is hard to say. It would not be surpris- I ing to find that Llew Edwards and , Herb McCoy are to have another go. ] Billy Miske, the American cruiserweight, who has been spoken of as a likely opponent for Les Darcy m America, defeated Charlie Weinert, at New York, on January 12 last. It was a ten rounds affair. Sid Godfrey, the feather-weight, who failed to wrest the championship from Jimmy Hill, made good at Brisbane recently when -he got a points decision over the local boy, Wave Geikie, who \ also had been previously defeated by Hill. It is VeTy clear that Jimmy Hill, as a feather-weight, is the best of the bunch m Australia. There, is nothing worth recording from America about Les ' Darcy, though, of course, the latest American papers to hand were full of his arrival m South America, and the possibility of his early arrival m New York. Anyhow, time is getting on, and any day now we should hear of Les having been matched with somebody or other; A special cable to a, Sydney paper last week, recorded the fact that Fred Fulton, who has been "hot on the trail of Jess Willard, defeated Tom Cowler '• , at Brooklyn, New York, on the night of January 9 last. Cowler was knock- ' ed out m the first round. As Jack Dillon did what he liked with Cowler, Fulton's win ; will not add greatly ' to his prestige. Still, it wiil tend to keep him well m the front. Battling Levinsky, the light heavy- " weight champion claimant, easily defeated" Gus Christie at the Dayton A.C. Ohio U.S.A; on December 8, last. For the first six rounds the bout was a fast one, but after that Levinsky showed the class. With a left-hand hook to the head and a right-hand uppercut to the body, Levinsky scored time and again, while he easily blocked Christie's counters. Several times during the , battle Christie was groggy from right- ; hand smashes to the head, and he had to clinch to save himself. The boys ' boxed before a crowd that packed the ' clubhouse. The referee called it a draw, the decision being greeted with, ' cat calls. , Paddy Gorman, who died m New > York on December 3 last, of Bright's i disease, aged '52, was a great welter, and "Boxer-Major" m the Sydney "Sportsman" says, "I shall never, forget 1 ■ the night at Fogey's when he punched . 6ft, 12 stone Bill Slavin to a quit m t eight rounds. Paddy made a great : name m America, and when he turned ; up the game he went to work as a [ carpenter m the employ of the City of New York, and had hardly missed : a day for 10 years past. For a long i time' after /he went to America, Paddy : travelled with Mike Muldoon's show and Mul^used to say that properly . trained he'd have been champion m ■ his class. He left Sydney with Peter . Jackson and Tom Meadows, and was , the last survivor of the trio." i m^ mmmmmmmm^ mmm amm mmmmmm mmm mmmmm mmmm .^_ — mmm tmm

Ere leaving for America, Llew Edwards has decided to meet Herb McCoy at Melbourne on January 21 for the lightweight championship. ■ Harry Stone and Fred Kay were to have met at Melbourne last Saturday night. The pair would put up a clever fight, too ciever to be attractive. The Sydney Stadium "scrap" scheduled for this evening, though, of course, likely to be rearranged,, will be between the featherweights, Sid Godfrey and the American, Freddy Enck. It will come as news to many to learn that among the /latest to leave Sydney m a military capacity is the old-timer, Hock Keys. To finish up as a soldier says a great deal for poor old Hock. There is an aboriginal heavyweight m Brisbane who would dearly love to emulate the successes of Jerry Jerome. He" is said to weigh 14st, has 41in, chest measurement, is only 25 years old, and; has brains. The Yankee reporter either grabs and publishes the windy skite of the pugmanagers, or is an impressionable, hysterical ass. Dozens of him we're whooping Bill Brennan, the big Chicago Irishman, as coming heavy-weight champion, and irresistible, and on November 21, Tom 'Cowler beat him all the way over the 10 -round course at Rochester. N.Y. .. The . American, Jack Coyne, should have been Tommy Tjren's opponent on Saturday night last at the Sydney Stadium, but due to the fact that the Yankee took an, ice cream, v and ( got pains m his J'Llttie Marjte^ "he ' xyas compelled to stand down, and 1 Fritz Holland filled the breach, and the fight was accordingly for the middleweight championship of Australia. .-, Fritz Holland is said by a Sydney writer to have a promising youngster m Bob Williams, who, 'on his first, appearance m the ring a couple of weeks .back, almost held his own against that good and experienced boy, George Harry, once known as George Lane, a good performer .m, his own country, New Zealand, and who recently had the better of matters m a six- rounder with 'Alt' Davis. • Bert Spargo, due to an illness, was unable to keep his engagement for a return match at Melbourne with the Englishman, Llew Edwards, and the American, Benny Palmer was provided as a substitute. A fair fight "was put up, the English champion winning on points. It is not unlikely that Palmer will be .seen m action m Sydney shortly. The, fight fans are beginning to ask for him. The efficaciousness of the left jab. Says "Boxer- Major" m "Sydney Sportsman": In one of the try-outs, on Saturday night week, at the Sydney Stadium,- a lnd named Syd McDonald met a fierce rusher named Larry Dwyer, and it looked ns if Syd would be swept off the map m short order. But every time Larry lurched*in Syd stuck out a straight left, and, during that furious six minutes (or less) it must have jolted Larry's nose and mouth thirty or forty times; while Dwyer rarely got a punch past it. In a cutting from an American paper writer came across an article which told of the many plucky things done m the prize ring, such as Tommy West continuing with Walcott despite the fact that the first-named had a couple of his ribs broken early m the contest. It was certainly very plucky of Tommy to have done so, but it sinks into significance m comparison with others. For instance: At the Old' Gaiety, Sydney, nearlyeight years ago. Sal) or Hunnings, m a contest with the late Alf Gault, had his jaw broken m the first second or so, of the. opening round, yet boxed the full twenty and won on points. "My advice to the vast army of young boxers now In their heyday of ( fistic ambition and glory la to protect' their future by learning some trade (writes Jack Skelley). Their average fighting career Is probably not more than seven years at the most, and when they are obliged to step down and out of the ring they often find this cold world tho hardest opponent they ever bucked up against. So, boys, while m vigorous youth and fistic prosperity, study and learn some agreeable trade or profession that you can jump into when the glory of tho ring has passed and the cheens and adulations of your host of fickle friends have faded away." The Chinese do not turn out many boxing exponents, though we have several Instances of lads with Celestial blood In their veins beln£ really good at the game, says a Brisbane writer. Now and again we have a full-blooded Ohlnnman"asplHng to make good, and the programme at Melbourne Stadium on Saturduy last produced one such. It has been written of him: "Rud Kee differs from his race because ho likes good solid fighting, Ho was pounded, one could say mashed, yet he came In smiling. There were no signs of a 'Btreak. 1 On tho contrary, the more punishment ho recolved the keener ho wp.s for retaliation. J3ut Iko Murphy, his opponent, know far too much of boxing to become entnnidtHl In tho set of arms thrit woro flying about like flails. Murphy, nevertheless, did not escape everything. Keo followed him wherever ho went as cutely as a fox Bteal.H on to tho bloating lamb, but his pn»y was not nearly as certain. Murphy brouKht all his speciality hits into play; the right to the chin that tickles the sensitive nerve: tho hard left Jab tlmt tostrt tho quality of noso and eyes; the tllve lo the solar plexus, that causes all that Is atmospheric within to become n UurUon; nnd tho snappy uppercuis that put an end to Infirm tooth. Keo withstood all thoso, consequently tho mo£>t casual sportsman will be prepared to Rive a measure of pralso to tho Chlnose youth for his pluck and tonucity. Tho skill will eonio later with tuition. He wns cheoretl all round on leaving. Murphy won on points."