PUG PARS.

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

PUG PARS.

The two Sydney 1 tent -weight champions, Bob Williairs :mrl Pal. Gleeson, have decided to o;>en :i boxing .and physic:-.! culture school at Tim Traeey's Oym.. IPS Willis-street. Wellington. They will specially cuter for business and professional gentlemen who desire ok!'vc;: 3 o lor health purposes. Gleo.son t.'as formerly instructor at the Naval Cn.'ipgo. Jnrvis !'»av. Xew South Wales, so he :.-: well versed m the most up-to-cluio ivrtliods of physical culture. Moth boys arc expert masseurs and will guarantee to rrmove all superfluous fjesh. The tuition will be strictly private. Discussing his forthcoming' fight with K eenan at Auckland next month, Oleosfi'i. who has never seen the Northerner, >bnt has heard a lot of him, says: "Of i-onrsp. 1 know he'll be a. dif'eu-i prapasition. but believe muh I'll be right there when the last bell clangs." • New* Zealariders cm gunge the ability of .lack Oole. who defeated I-leeney, last month by £he recent, performance of Frank l:;:rns, who knocked out Tommy Uren ,last .Saturday night, as Cole, a few weeks previous to coming to New Zealand, boxed all over Burns at Newcastle, receiving Referee Baker's? decision at the end of twenty rounds. Frank Burns, the new fistic luminary, has been a -battling to get m the front rank for a while past, and defeated all and sundry till he met Cole, when his supporters received a rude shock. Still persevering. Burns recently kayoed the Australian Naval champion, Murton, and received his "big chance" with Uren, and now today is champion of Australia; justifying the confidence most of the Sydney writers had m him to make good. .. . . i Laurie . Oadman and his trainer, C. Nicholson, passed through Wellington on Monday on his way to Westport, where he fights W. Senior at middleweights to-night. On the conclusion of this fight he is returning to Well' ington to be topped off by Frltjs Holland for his fight with Jock Graham at Dargaville on August 6; The pair have met half-a-dozen times- previously and honors are even between them, so there ■ should be a lot of interest' m next month's clash. Some enthusiasts of the fistic art at Te Kuiti have formed an association, and m future there will be a boxing school run m connection with it with Gus Venn as instructor. Already he has enrolled some thirty pupils, and the game .will soon be in 1 full swing. The Te Kuiti championships are to be decided early m September, and there will also be a professional bout. The' new association has been fortunate m securing the services of Mr. Jack Trennear to act as secretary. He will be best remembered as having acted m a similar capacity for the Te Kqiti Racing Club. , - Mr. W. Grant, of Hastings, went on to Wfiiroa at the conclusion of the Dwycr- Williams Tight at Napier, to re-' ferec at the opening tournoy of the Wairoa Association, / Bob Williams and Pat Gleeson are back m Wellington awaiting the fight with Keenan at Auckland next month. The Christchurch Sports Club has matched !Lin Robinson and Paul Hannah for August 29, The Cadman- Williams clash, at Wellington, is off. It is understood that. Cadman cannot make the Aveight. Now that Jack Dempsey has defeated Carpentier, they are already lookinground for someone to oppose the man from" Utah, nnrt that btsr Ut. of blubber, JeKH WiHartl, whom tlu* Mormon &»• ! Jrnnt took tho (.'hfi-mfilrtnuhlp off, ifl aeal'i mentlonpfl -oh n ItUoly opponent. Jii i i-inii, who ottitto ovoi' hpvo wHb lU'.iy F'rppton. is feeling' no lnylgoratecf with the SN'ew Zealand, cl.ijna'to that he

wants a. match with any heavy m New Zealand, and does not bar Alee Pooley or Tom Heeney. Hall has a. .great record m Sydney, where he won divers battles by the K.O. route.' "BoxerMajor" once wrote of Hall: Why don't the Sydney Stadium people put softspoken Jim Hall \ip against some of the .arrogant invaders who take away .stacks of our gold and chuckle over the easiness of our Australian cracks? I am game to bet that a, Hall-Mc-Goorty mutch would packtho Stadium more deeply than any possible match between aliens." Monty .'Pascoe, of • Leithfiold, writes from •' Chxrtstchurch, June 22: "Being here on a holiday I had the luck to be present at the Pat Gleeson-Bob Williams bout and can say that public opinion is unanimous that it was the best fight seen here since Cribb and Griffin fought. In my. opinion the decision wag incorrect, Gleeson doing the ■ better scoring and cleverer footwork., Anyway they are two great boys and, m public opinion, a draw would have been m keeping with the fine display given by both. Pat has one of the finest lefts seen over here. He was half a stone the lighter man; but Williams pursued him . tenaciously and made the fight the" fastest seen here for many years. Another outcome of Prohibition m the Dryblighted States. Griffo, the once mighty, had long been supported as a pensioner (and, no doubt, exhibition) .'by. a. New York saloon-keeper named Jack Gleeson; but Gleeson was thrown out of business, and poor old Griffo -was thrown on the streets once more. It is a pitiful (ale to tell of such a pal of John Barleycorn — who had quite ceased to associate with him, however — and a past champion fea-ther-weight of the world. It's good to be a cha.mp4.on, and to fight a. champion, m America. Johnny Wilson, who took the middle-weight title from Mike O'Dowd, was continually challenged by Mike, who, of course, maintained that he'd been robbed m Boston on May 6, 1920, for a return match, so as he could wipe the fiure wid the dommed Dago. When eventually they met m "the Garden" on Ma'rah i 7 of this year, O'Dowd got licked again by the Italian left-hander, and "for that licking he got £4400 and Wilson'" £'8000. , = Some of the stuff that has., been written about the Dempscy- Carpentier f^ht reads funny after the event. A lot of one-eyed old crocks have been giving their' opinion, and none was more. amusing than that of that anschemer, Jack McAuliffe, who was beaten for the world's light-weight championship by both Jim Carney (England) and Griffo (Sydney, Australia) v but for a thievish award on both occasions. AH reputable Americans even will agree to that statement. McAuliffe said, according to the ■ cables, that Dempsey is no boxer, but has got a fine guard that Carpentier can get both under and over! Pine guard, inxleod! Great oracle! What? Secretary D. P. Deere, of the Marlborough Boxing Association, has an advertisement m this column asking for boxers of all. classes to compete ivt the. tourney m Blenheim, on August 6. which is the night of the West Coast and Marlborough Rugby match.