'FRISCO NEWS

NZ Truth, Issue 1305, 18 December 1930, Page 12

'FRISCO NEWS

Stewart, Sarron and

Bloom Write

MICK IS PROMOTED

This week's 'Frisco steamer brought letter advice from > Earl Stewart, who is at present m the States m search of boys to fight" m New Zealand. ' ALSO by the same mail came letters 1 **• from Lou Bloom and Pete Sarron. Bloom was still m 'Frisco getting ready for a fight m Los Angeles, while Sarron was m the same burg. Pete reports that Bad Boy, Bobby La Salle, was still alive, and fighting better than ever. So much for the report that gave it out that Bobby had been smash - «d m a motor accident and died from injuries. Mick writes interestingly of his first days m 'Frisco. He attended the football game, Stanford v. California, one of a crowd of .80,000.

Stewart trained all the way over with Butler Bill Edwards, and lost ten pounds, avoirdupois. "I got a few decisions over him, the best being when the bout was held up to have my nails cut, the wild man objecting to a three- ] line traffic m his neck." It was Thanksgiving Week when Mick arrived, and there was little doing-, but m his observations he found that the manager held iparamount sway. ■ ' Mick ran into Bloom at one of the gyms, and Lou did the honors by taki ing Stewart out to a Kosher supper. | In the sporting press Mick received I good publicity, and the "Chronicle" gave him a tyig notice. The boxing writer made him "Colonel Earl Stewart." j . Stewart was much impressed with the gyms he had inspected. All are well equipped and, what was more to the point, well conducted. Boys pay approximately ten shillings a month for training fees. That's cheap enough. | When the mail left, Mick was going down to Los Angeles, :^,nd the latest cable advice is that he will also go i to Chicago, and possibly to New York. According to Bloom, Strangler Lewis did not want America to know he had been out to Australia, as when he returned he gave it out that he ! had been to the Orient, and it was strictly a pleasure trip. Those who had to witness the I old man romping m Sydney cannot agree that there was any pleasure m it. Sarron's letter again mentions "see you again shortly," and can it he that Pete intends returning? Sarron never tried to say he was a big noise m the States, and just how well he is known, can be gauged from the following par. from the San Francisco "Chronicle": "Pete Sarron, an American boxer, netted for himself 10,000 dollars m New Zealand m eleven months."