"VERY GOOD EDDIE" IS NOT

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 10

"VERY GOOD EDDIE" IS NOT

"Kid" Dehhey Stepped Oat On Wrong Rpad (-.*■'■" . -. ■ ' " : ' ' ' ' - - :.'.■■' ■ ■■■ ._ ■■ . ' . ■■ ■ ■ i. i ■ .... ■ . ■ . ■ a

• •..-■ • i- . . • ■ • ■ ■ ■■■■■■■■•■■■;.■•'■ '• . ■'■;./• ■ • ■ ■ ':'.'■■ ''■■.■ When Eddie Ross, alias "Kid" Delaney, decided to adopt the ' boxing game as a' means of earning a livelihood, he stepped out on the wrong road. If he continues on it he will starve— iij, New Zear land at any rate. , . f ,

AS a 'boxer or fighter he would be a distinct 'success as. a.layer pf linoleum or • carpets,. at so much per yard. ' i r ' , '">' X much per, fight liir would be, or . rather is, a pad dept. ■ ■>,■- .So the Northern Association found out last week when. Delaney-Ro'ss showed the audience how to go to sleep without the r aid of. a feather bed. ; it was a remarkable demonstration spacK^rtfSonSs hVUks^lS^ the^oridr ' Unfortunately for -Delaney-Rosa he will .not be able to put his insomnia cure on the,market. ' '. ' Just how Hhe Northern Association • fell for this'jyoung .turner of flips and ■; flops is hardito understand. ,'.'•.,•' 1 Last year-.under his correct name of Eddie Ross\he came to : New; Zealand, ' proclaiming himself .flyweight . champioh of West Australia. ; ' ■•.-.' They 'do holdv.figh J ts; , in ■'Perth, t»ut nobody khpws anything, ab6ut them outside that city. • ' '.'■■■ So had Ross' told the. world he was flyweight champion of Mana Island he would have" caused just as; much ex-

period Delaney-Ross was d«wn on the mat offering: praise to Allah the All Merciful, but giving none to Hatton, the Unmerciful. bed with a serious attack of indigestion•' ; ■ ' ■'■•■' ■ ' Three days after the "business" word came, however, that DelaneyRoss was to be put m the ring again —but on this occasion he was to have opponents all round him. I", short he was to face the committee and tell them whyfore the ' thusness. , : . After hearing Delaney the committee decided he' wasn't; that he was really Ross; that he had not put up his best display; and that he had over-boosted himself. , '• , ";; After finding all this out (when it v^as too late) the committee-decided that his end be held up, arid that the • council be handed all the dope.-/ That is as far as it is at time of writings ' V ." "N.Z.. Truth" cannot see ; how Delaney-Rbss*s: money is going to be withheld. ' , / •■..,. J The referee gave a decision and'fail-

citement — which, by the way, was. nil. , But he got a' fight all the same — wonders will never cease. Opposed to Tommy Griffiths' .- at Dunedin, Ross 'was » carved up like\the old joint on the table. Griffiths won

ed to do- as he .-should 1 have', done after giving that decision. Being dissatisfied •with the : showing, he should have there and then announced that the loser was not to get any money. .Morally Delaney-

by/a minute and then, some. V ':; . -Then exit brother:Ross. ■-' 1,;.; . In' March of this year "NvZ^ Truth 1' received a letter -.from, one "Kid" De- . laney, who, writing;from Sydney,'said he would- be: over 'l shortly, to claim the vacant bantam. Utle. \/;,.' \ -^c '• We i wished him"luck, 'but also re- ; marked that claiming iand receiving, ■ were twojdiffereni. matters^ ;.-; ■' v.f-;•: ;, : Then oneiday m; blew-.a'frdsh-faced | youngster who-introduced .himself I", m; one, and asked^h^ ' was going to do to our. eight arid nine- '■ stone boxers. v ' / ; ; • ■ . | ),: ■ . ' ■', . Giving.^away a.bit of weight,did v [ not bother Hini one' little bit. /,■ . » mis paper iet\iJeianey-xvoss. pass oy * lik-A thA slims nf the. riipVit-.-ViTiVioo^rifl „ iiKexne snips 01 tne nignt—unneeaea.. : msssmm substituted at practically the last moment. 1 '.■.;.' : , ■>/■:.. . ' ; : The rest is ;now histpry. In a brief

.Ross is not entitled to any money, but just how it is going to,be kept from himjunder the,rules is not.too clear, ''.: Two: case's (granted not by : any means as bad as last;week) found assedations losing when it went to the ouncil. .■;.-. . The first was when Demsky and May'met at Auckland m 1922, and the other when ■ Tom Heeney made .a bititcher's shop ;of a big stiff named Savage at Napier; -.e^in^'^^'^td^Wav: [ !, mone X- ; . ;.-. .; ■Ross thus may get his money, but if. he does he should consider himself a lucky, boy, and hike back to Perth as .fast as he can. ' ■^ v ,_tWoi- vnri unt niro him flp-hti-n*^ his .motnei ma not xiKe nim n&ntmg. . ;: ts-. vi a +nnir « npw rriniiniirpr hut if §&mmm^ ' And if she'should, "N.Z.,Truth" , would not want to wagep on Mr; Delane'y>-Rosa, the. busted bantam.