BOXING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 9

BOXING.

H£ENEY AND McDONALD hjHOW WEEK ATTRACTION (Notes by “Square Ring”) I'l)o proposal lo match A 1 McDonald, the Queenslander, with Jack Hcency, of Gisborne, for a show week light is one that .the Gisborne Boxing Association should have no reason to regret adopting. The popularity of Jack Hcency, apart from his lighting qualities altogether, ought tr) draw a crowd to the tournament, while McDonald, who is following in the steps of the foremost Australian lighters in his tour of Now Zealand, is a boxer whom no fan should miss seeing. There are few ring men with the endurance and power of Jack Hcency, whose record covers a large number of line contests, and against whom no one has ever been able to allege unsportsmanlike behaviour. The Gisborne boxer has accounted for most of the prominent lighters he has met, and still retains a large share of the skill that was his in his palmiest days. That ho is in a condition to fight at almost any notice is a well-known fact., and though the past few months have brought along no tights, Hcency has never let his condition deteriorate. The Queenslander is a boxer of quite a different type from the Gisborne man. He is taller, slimmer, and a good deal more limber, judging by his looks. He will have to give weight away to his opponent, but his youth and speed should make up for that. McDonald’s is a record any ring fighter might be proud of, for he has fought most of the big men on the other side of tlio Tasman, and emerged with credit from the different engagements. 1 Harry Casey, who fought here last year, is recognised as one of the hardest in the Australian ring, and McDonald has fought him twice, matters being even between them. Herb McCoy found the lad from Queensland difficult to handle, and the referee declared their light a draw. Krn Uinvin has thrice fought McDonald, with t lie result that each has had a win, the other match being a draw. “ K.O. ’ ’ Campbell was twice hoist with his own petard, being disposed of in five and nine rounds respectively. Jimmy Lawson lost to McDonald on points, losing the bloom that hung about a lightweight champion of the Slate; Roy Hayward, lightweight champion of WOstralia, lost three lights to him, and Jesse Butler, welterweight champion of the American Fleet, found him too tough. Another of McDonald's victims was Able Beaman Hardy, oi H.M.B. Danae, described as welter champion of the British Navy. A record such as that makes a boxer interesting. and as McDonald will be giving sparring displays, in the meantime, Gisborne fans should be able to form their own impressions of his ability before the tight with -lack llecnev.

JAMITO AND LOVBRIDGE The. New Plymouth Boxing Association are at present, negotiating for a bout between Salrino Jamito and Dick Loveridge. Lovcridgo has fully recovered from his recent illness and is training in Wellington. Jamito has his hands full fqr some time, but provided an agreement can be reached over Lovcridgo’s increase in weight there should bo no insurmountable obstacles to the staging of what would be one of the best contests witnessed there. *

HIS STRONG RIGHT. DEMPSEY’S DEVELOPMENTTho world’s ex-champion heavyweight, Jack Dempsey was “discovered” by Tex Rickard, at the time when Tex was a trainer, and before he became a fight promoter. Rickard realised that in Dempsey he Pad all the makings of a world champion, but there was just one fault; the youngster was a one-handed fighter, and nowadays it is the man with punch and defence in both hands who carries off the fistic purses. Rickard’s task, therefore, was to make Dempsey a two handed hitter, and the method* he adopted, was simple. he put his man into the training ring with ins left arm—his hitting arm—shackled to his left thigh hy a loop of tape. This meant that Dempsey had to learn to use his right arm for aggressive as well as defensive work. The plot thickens when it is mentioned that, none of the sparring partners who entered the ring against the coining champion, whs particularly fond of him, for, there is always a- good deal of jealousy ugain.d a man who bids fair to rise out of the ruck and leave his former equals behind. , It so happeud that Carl Moms—a good, hard-hitting fighter of “bull-rush” methods and about two stone l.w\:er than Dempsey —was one of the spoiling partners, and, with Jack’s .v.iting arm hanging useless, lie proceeded <o 4 paste him thoroughly. Dempsey took his medicine as a, good man should, and. in the process, ho learned to use his right hand for “hitting purposes” as vUI as for blocking blows.to the jaw' or the solar plexus. SWEET REVENGE. Time went on. and Dempsey b.rarne sufficiently accomplished to have a real tight. It is now that- the ri.'fv c ircideuce steps in upon a page of fact. Yes, you have guessed it: Dempsey’s fust opponent in tlie prize ring was Carl Morris. Morris was a “man-killer.” His tactics consisted of a tierce attack m the early rounds; that and little else. Aided by his tremendous physique—lie weighed *l7st 61b—he had battered many an opponent into unconsciousness in the first or second round, but not so Dempsey. .Jack stood up to tho onslaught, instead of “ covering up,” and as Morris tore into him, he struck on the mark, 'l'he rest is best related by O’Rourke, who was one of Dempsey's seconds. “.Sitting hang opposite*Morris,” lie said, “f saw the blow land. A hit to the solar plexus - produces the same effect as ono to the point of the jaw, the man collapses, hut does not drop backwards as in the case of u blow to the nose or forehead. He gives at the knees, and falls in a heap. Tliats what happened to Morris. He sagged and then fell forwards. His tongue hung out of his mouth, and as the Weight- of his body shot him forward, the tongue was terribly torp on the rosined canvas." Morris never fought again^