Biff Briefs

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 10

Biff Briefs

ANOTHER OVER

SATURDAY NIGHT

# ■-■#•■; WELL MATCHED

WAKEUPI

WANTS *REVENGE

POSSIBLY SO *

CRED SMITH ERAM? welter champion r «tf North Otago, has decided he will no longer fight for honor and glory and he ,is now open to meet any pro. at his weight. Smitheram has haA twenty-two bouts, and seeing he hatf lost only four of this number he is not too bad. , \

CATURDAY' night, at the Drill Hail, » Dunedin, will see. one of the biggest attractions ever, staged m that city^. When Johnny. Leckie steps into the ring to meet Tommy Griffith's the house will be somewhat like the proverbial sardine m the tin— packed. It should be a great go and the winner will be allowed to take the mythical featherweight title home to bed with him.

THE Napier Association does not have *• any the best of the luck, but it is alwaya tryirigr, and looking for the, silver'lining 1 . For, December 7 the executive has arranged a double bill— -two ten-rounders. George Adams •is to meet Mark Carroll m the first, while m the second Tommy Griffiths will face Frank Tayloft This is indeed a fine bill, and one : that should : give Bill Heroook cramp counting the' money.

IIAB the* Wellington Association gone 11 off m a long sleep? It Js still open to question where the flies go m the winter-time, but what happens to boxing m Wellington m the summertime is . known— at least this summer we know, for nothing has happened. It* is said there will be no match till January. That means it will be nearly five months since there was a fight.

JIM BROADFOOT Is far from satls- •» fled with his display against Artie Hay and he wants an opportunity to show It was wrong. In other words, he wants a return bout, and Hay no doubt is only too willing to comply w;lth this request. One of the Bay associations may consider the match.

TO GISBORNE

I ITTLE Jaok Crowley, who is ever v ready ' to box for an association, has left Wellington for Gisborne, where he is going to show 'em how to put up telegraph poles. '

IT is whispered about that Jack Paull, ■* the ex-Dunediri amateur, Avho has been holding his end up m Sydney, is coming back to New Zealand. He will put a bit- more life into the welter ranks, . ' ; •