HEENEY MAY WIN
AN EXCELLENT CHANCE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association GISBORNE. This Day. "If the battle goes beyond the lOth. round, Heeney stands an excellent chance of knocking Tnnney out." Thus opinion by Charles Harvey, the New Zealand manager, has been received by wireless broadcast which also quotes Jack Heeney, Tom’s brother, as saying that ’’Tom’s training goes on in the same old way. He has been taking things very easy, but yesterday did work rn the open for the first time, sparring three rounds with a huge giant, Half Smith, It has been a wonderful thing to my brothers and I,” states Jack, “to see the elaborate training arrangements. Several changes are being made in the staff of sparboys, including the introduction of a last light-weight to speed Tom up. a.I)So OsktfJl. a middleweight, who previously trained with Tiiniiisy. ynd Jack Lawless, of Newark, a Light heavy-weight.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10889, 17 July 1928, Page 6
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