Jackie Green—Requiescat In Pace

NZ Truth, Issue 1167, 12 April 1928, Page 12

Jackie Green — Requiescat In Pace

PREEN by name — and now green m ability. Some day there will be a law preventing boxers attempting the impossible — that of staging a comeback. | Jackie Green tried to get back into the money at Wellington last I week and fail-' cd. Only a few years back he was a big noise. A brainy lad with two fastmoving fists, he could out-guess and out-speed the best of them. To-day he 's a shell — the remnant of a once great fighting machine. Fought to a frazzle, now he

possesses neither the will nor the heart. A left hook artist, he could **■— not get out of the way of one of his own favorite punches ! He took two punches and Hinkler has never made a better landing 1 . For the im- > position he | placed on the fW ellington public, Green deserves the utmost censure. He must have known what his chances were, but needs must Green's sun has set and as a fighter nowadays he would not be able to beat his own shadow.