BOXING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20868, 7 November 1929, Page 4

BOXING.

By Cross Counter,

According to a report from Napier, a bout between Johnny Leckie and Billy Grime has been definitely arranged for December 7- It is also stated that it is Leckie s intention to live in Napier and open a school there. In all probability the feather-weight champion will later be matched against Tommy Donovan and Pete Sarron. ,

George Blake, La Barb S’s manager, w expected in Sydney at Christmas tune with a team of tour boxers—a lighta middle, a feather ,and a bantam. Despite the reports that the veteran ex-cruiser-weight champion, Mike M’Tigue had definitely retired from the ring, according to a report from America he recently won a 10-round bout at Birmingham, Alabama. '

Arrangements are in train for Norman Gillespie to meet Jack Roberts for the light-weight crown of Australia. Before Gillespie got the 0.9 title from Billy Jones, Roberts “outed” him in eight rounds with a punch which was delivered a Gillespie had mistaken the bell, r j • box « rs imported by Stadium, Ltd., during the season, seven are still, m Australia (Americans Pete Sarron. Sammy Shack. Paddy Faltier, and Lou Bloom and Englishmen Harry Corbett, Dick .Corbett, and Ben Marshall). Shack was to have met Corbett on October 26 but Corbett was unable to fulfil the enl Ba S,! ment ?•} account of a cold. of the titTi ti?n A in . co ?. n «tion with some ot the titles m Australia is somewhat contusecTand an attempt is to be . made to nave the position cleared up. The first oi the title tilts will be between the cha ? pi ° n George Thomson amtrPat Redmond, the boat being tvheber C 9 r Sydney Stadium on Novcm-

mnw a t ffuch. ,*he Leichhardt pro- ' 10 v, ? lt America *uon With toe idea of. arranging for another team of boxers to visit Australia. He hS '* alwady sißned up three boys from '.Vales The New Leichhardt Stadium, SydnQ- ' 50fin r.w! 1118 ) accommodation for over oUOO patrons, -and every one will have an ’ unobstructed view of the ring. The ringFvonf eatfi -ui lll be upholstered chairs. ' ! J osslb e convenience will be provided for competitors—hot and ' cold t? ™ rB ’, rubbing benches, and a plimtiftil supply of drinking water. On the to a nDg competitors "will pass , Passage leading almost to the ?ave Sfuith, who has seen i many boxing halls in Europe and' . wUy T h/’+hT iß th ! .Leichhardt Stadium world: * COSIBSt boxiag arena iu the . norted Bay Association, it is re?rJ™™t.jb^en 1 ?, correspondence with . Hancock and Carroll for a match at Hasn S I S r th A * r H e a pS, 1 - tt A \ Austra " an w nt€r suggest* thlt bas accounted for thebest :„Lv e w Zealand can. produce, a visit; to Sydney probably would be a big finan--cial success for him. Certainly if Hay convincingly defeats Morgan he will hive to cross, the Tasman if he deeires ma4es tb ? V ent S f Australians declining to come to New Zealand. ■ - A large sum will pass to the English Amateur Boxing "Association under wiU of Mr E C. Hulin, the late honorary left m3d°V he ass ?. c . iat > on - Mr Hulin £434B £723 TT O Kr Wf n ? t Personality 7S:iu\u j kis business' premise* pJoyec6^anTsuSsect a to ' Amateur e ßorin^Affioclk e tiSm Perty * the . ~Pjr ry the American negro, once tolled as the Black Menace Fink come-back endeavour, met Andres Castono, the Spaniard, in Mexico City, early m Tnf P^ e * ber j winning on a foul F;^T“T d v 0n his arrival in London iV& T B ? rba Baid: "I gave op » world title to go to Stanf'rd University : my education, for I ai S. to be a stockbroker in New York. When I return from Europe I am going back to the university,_where. I hope to get my Bachelor, of Arts. At nresenf T ik* know whether I shall Ifefat ngaiVfo? I ■ famed amongst other things for ito gangsters, gunmen, and racketeers, recently ‘ Tiu- USS t d i a -P rob e ? 1 in boxing etiquette. Ultimately it was decided 'hat-it was nnd,al > d ungentlemanly for the inert bnocked-out boxers to be tossed ®J® r - j be ® bo .V lde ?s of tbeir seconds and carried put like sides of beef. Therefore, the commission ordered two stretchers to he .on hand at all fights under their jurisdiction, so that incapacitated boxers - rSb.'of'Si'UK .^“'arreaderof -boxing,.as carried 0U * JI ?, le Lnited States, cannot fail to note the extraordinary number of bouts * ar »\ biat through fouling (says . Cestus >. So. pronounced is this Breach or the rules that the sports writers are urging drastic, punishment ‘ for offenders. Une of the first, commissions to act was that of California, which ruled that any boxer committing a foul should suffer an automatic suspension for some time. As fouling still went bn, the commission abandoned this, rule in favour of one calling tor indefinite suspension, so that the case could be investigated, in order to determine whether the foul was .accidental or intentional.’ Writing on the subject, a leading boxing authority said: "I queried ’ a- 1 referee, and his answer war;- ‘ The problem pf whether a foul ia accidental or intended Is usually to be determined by ,the general.actions of the figher rather than merely by watching the punch.’ \\ men is probably true. .- In some cases you can be well assured that a fighter is fouling because he wants to take that way out. . If a fighter is, to all appearances. losing, then he may deliberately foul, hoping to got away, with it. On the other hand, if a man is winning, he is not going to foul deliberately, unless the • fight is prearranged.” are told that special guards were appointed to watch the camps of Phil,. Scott and Campolp. and keep ail stranger* away, and that extra precautions were taken to protect the men’s food and drink from being tampered with. A leading Jvew \ork sports writer recently had some very serious things to say about the condition, of the sport in the big- , city. He made no charges against, the boxers, but stated that in the background . were gamblers and gangsters who stuck at nothing to. achieve their aim. that he had arrived in Wellington only two days before. Tommy Doble put tip a wonderful performance against Tommy Donovan at the Town Hall on Friday night (says the Evening Post). The hall’was packed. The Australian was the cleverer boxer, and had he been able to maintain his form over the last three rounds he would have won. As it was the judges, Messrs E. Perry mul B. A. Guise, disagreed, and the referee. Mr E. Stewart, gave his easting vote for the New Zealander. Donovan was disappointing. He has phenomenal development for a featherweight. and a right hand that will put an end to any contest, if it lands. He did net land it' on Doble, but was continually beaten to the punch, especially in the first 10 rounds. Over the last four or five rounds Doble made his man miss, but did not counter frequently enough. He was feeling the effects, not of his opponent's, punches, but of the rugged aggressiveness of the Waitara min. and the trip across the Tasman. On his showing Donovan is not in the same class as the Johnny Leckie the Wellington public hare seen.