BOXING AT HOME.

NZ Truth, Issue 998, 10 January 1925, Page 11

BOXING AT HOME.

Foreigners Predominate.

English boxing surely has two feet and one hand m the grave. Men of the Driscoll, Mace and Sayers type are but' shadowy memories.

England, once the home of fisticuffs, is to-day without sufficient boxers to enable British promoters to stage regular main event contests between local products — or even one local product versus a foreigner.

They have had to fall back upon European talent, and English boxing papers are full of reports of contests waged m London by a French and Belgian, or a Dutch and German pair of boxers.

One of the most recent of these was one m which Leo Darton met and defeated Simon Rosman of Holland.

This bout was staged at no less a rendezvous than the National Sporting Club, and Darton, after "half -killing" the tough Dutchman, knocked him out m fourteen rounds.

Newspapers headed their reports on the night's entertainment a '"Memorable Programme and- a Memorable Contest."

Darton, now m Sydney, jnay have his first fight against Harry CollinsV

This seems bad policy, for .if the Belgian managed to score a win before meeting the welter champion he would attract double the money that an initial contest with Collins will net him.