RANDOM RUMORS IN THE RING

NZ Truth, Issue 1128, 14 July 1927, Page 15

RANDOM RUMORS IN THE RING

(From. "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative.) Ail the boys have been saving their money for the night of July 28, the date when the "fancy" meet m Dunedin to scrap their way to victory or defeat m the Otago Amateur Championship finals.

JOHNNIE LECKIE. the local featherj Aveight-, and Mark Carroll, the ° Wanganui boy, are due. to provide the croAVd Avith a thrill or tA\-o on the night of the championships. The Otago contingent chosen to represent their province m . the New Zealand amateur championships at Invercargill next month should carve out a good name for. themselves Avhen they step from theh* corners. .Jim Leckie, for example, the "1924 light-heavy champion of N.Z., has developed the aggressiveness he used to lack and should open the eyes of the ring-siders when he slips into top gear. Then there's Bobby Fulcher, exlightAveight champion, and considered by local lights to be a moral for the championship this year and a candidature for the Olympic Games x team. • W. Leckie, brother of Johnnie, the ex-amateur featherAveight champion,

lis another boy calculated to stir up a whole heap of clanger for the other [Chap m the ring next month. A twofisted goer with a fighting brain.... Steve Hughes, a' pretty fair -lad ..who comes Avith a' reputation from Scotland and has more recently been under, the fatherly guidance of Archie Leckie, should "make things interesting among the. welters. Bert Davis, a protege of "Denny" Boreham, is a boy who will justify his ambitions m the ring and give his audience a- good time of it. So far as a bird's-eye scan Avill permit of observation m the bantam and middlcAveights it is difficult to focus the searchlight. Harold Kindley is unlikely to compete m this year's tourney, as he hasn't been seen m the ring for a long time noAV.