RIGHT SORT

NZ Truth, Issue 1136, 8 September 1927, Page 11

RIGHT SORT

Pros. Who Also Work What is wanted m New Zealand is not the pro. who lives on the game solely, but the pro. who mixes boxing with business. IN as many words, this is how George Talbot .declared himself at the annual conference at Invercargill. To the sentiments expressed by the Wellington delegate, "N.Z. Truth" subscribes. The average professional m this country cannot live alone by his earnings m the ring, and m between fights he is far better off to be occupied by l some trade. Talbot qtioted as an instance— not by any means an isolated one, either — L Artie Hay, the. welter champion. Hay gives just as much time to business as he does to boxing and to date ihe has successfully combined the two. Australians who come over on short trips are> of course, m a different position, but when they decide to stay on it is best for them i to get a job. Too much work and not enough play is said to make Jack a dull boy, but reverse the order and it makes Jack something m the nature of a nuisance. " The working pro. is far preferable to his loafing brother.