AUCKLAND BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 818, 16 July 1921, Page 12

AUCKLAND BOXING.

(By "Left Lead.")

Ere these notes appear the Northern Association's Championships will have been' decided and possibly some promising 1 - novice.s brought into the limelight. Chatting with Secretary Greenhough last week, that yontleman remarked that it was hardly, likely the N.'B.A. would send n .representative m each division to the Xcw Zealand championships at Oreymouth, but the best of the winners would certainly go. When it was announcer! that the N.B.A. had matched Jack Keenan with Pat Gloeson, quite a number of fans wanted" to know what tho association, was thinking- of in putting: Cleeson on again. They were under the impression that it was Les Glaeson, but there would be no chance of Los Gleeson getting a scrap m Auckland, because his two fights with Heeney at the Town Hall were very crude. Pat Gleeson, who will be Keenan's opponent on August 22, is a light-weight of whom some nice things have beep written at times, and recently he fought a draw with P.ob Williams. Gleeson is credited with being a fast, clever boxer, hut m Jvoonnn he will be well tried out. Anyone who takes the Aucklander on is not going to a dance. Both Stewart Smith and "Buck" Shaw, who arc set to meet, for £125 at Whangarei, at the end of the month, aro m solid training. Shaw was credited with a good showing against Frank O'Neil at Greymouth, and Smith showed enough against Keenan to give the impression that he will be hard for any of the light-weights io.beat. There is so wide a difference of opinion as to Smith's qualities as a boxer that the result of his clash with Shaw will be anxiously awaited. 1 understand that m the event of him beating Shaw, the Whangaroi Association will consider signing him up for a. scrap with Keenan. This would be the scrap of the season to Aucklanders, and it would come as no surprise to see the N.B.A. harness the pair up. This, of course, is on the understanding that hemust beat Shaw first.