BOXING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15301, 24 August 1920, Page 6

BOXING.

Patrons of boxing who remember the previous battle between Les ( Gleeson, of Australia, and Jack Hceney, of Gisborne, are looking eagerly forward to n particular good match on Friday evening next, when these two boxers meet. again, m a fifteen-round contest for a purse or £150 and expenses- lf there was ono objection which might have been made to the previous fight, it would 'be on tho score of the too gentlemanly -treatment by each man of his opponent. One spectator was heard to call it lady-iiKc. However If what one hears is true, Friday night's contest will not suffer from that failing, and a very different style of fighting, with* far more sting m it. may be expected. It is not the purpose of the writer to encourage "stoush" at. the expense of science and clean sport, but the public would not welcome a repetition of the wide-arm break practised m the Juno contest— agreeable to the overdone sporting ideas of a section of tlie audience, but entirely ineffective except as favoring thc man who was the inferior at infighting. Probably both contestants realised this durinjr the light, but onco tho practice had been established, tho first man to go, back on it would undoubtedly come m for a hos-, tile demons. ration from thc overdone section. As it i*>, however, there will probably be little of this m their next meeting, and the public should see a fair and square, well-matched battle between two well-conditioned nicn of approximately even weight, to both of whom the outcome Is a matter of \yelght. The chances of the battle would appear to be very even, with the weight of ringcraft In favor of the Australian, an<l with possibly a slight advantage lo .Ileeney m the close fighting. . The subsidiary^ programing of amateur events will be well worth seeing, the bouts arranged having recently been published. A further item of interest to be staged will be a three-round exhibition spar between T. Heency, the local heavy-weight who is seeking a match with Albert Pooley, and F. Gribben, an amateur, who has previously appeared m the ring. There will, of course, be jno decision. I Mr. Allen Maxwell, the Wellington boxjing instructor, will referee the fight, and jis expected to arrive m Gisborne on Fri- • day morning. At a meeting of the Boxing Association last evening, it was decided to donate I£s 5s to the projected gymnasium fund ifor the Garrison Hall.— "Square Ring."