THIRD EDITION TOM HEENEY’S PLANS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 13

THIRD EDITION TOM HEENEY’S PLANS

NO FIGHT UNDER £IOOO HAED HIT IN WALL STREET Just prior to his departure from Capetown, South Africa, to return to America after his shooting expedition oil the veldt. Tom lieeney was inter yiewed l»y a press represent a live on the subject of his plans for the future. He stated that he would Ilk'' to lighl again, but he did not propose to do so unless he could secure £100(1 a light. Tom also indicated that he had been hard hit by the smash in American shares which occurred last year, but expressed a hope that some of his holdings might recover. The report of the interview was as under: "Shall I light again i " A smile broke across the features of "Honest Tom" Heeuey, erstwhile contender for the world's heavy weight crown, as ho collected the refund money on his cinematograph camera from the Customs officers in the saloon of. the American freighter, Kastera Glen. "It depends mi whu. offers ! receive," he admitted. "I'd like another fight, and I've cabled my manager in the States saying so. Hut I won't fight for under a thousand pounds. "The Wall Street smash hit me hard. On paper I figure I lost £l9 SOU. That's a- tidy sum for anyone to lose. PerAhps some of my holdings will recover libit, and the kiss may not be as much after nil." MRS. HEENEY'S SAY Tom was anxious to talk about himself. He said: "I lead a very quiet life, and am never really out of training.' I shall begin to work off the superfluous fat as soon as we get to sea, so that 1 can be in some sort ol shape when we get to Boston." I asked him where he intended to settle down for good. Mrs. Heency, who had been doing the Charleston to some new gramophone records, answered the question for him. "New York," she said, quite definitely. "That's where I have a sav in the matter." Tom agreed: "I guess it'll have to be New York. Somehow one gets more out of life in New York than anywhere else in the world." Tom Heenev, like a dutiful husband, went to help'Mrs. Heenev unpack.