BOXING

Southland Times, Issue 17584, 20 November 1915, Page 10

BOXING

At latest advice from Australia .Timmy Clabby and Fritz Holland were to meet In Sydney this (Saturday) evening. On Saturday night of next week Mick King and Eddie McGoorty will meet at Sydney Stadium. Fred Kay gave singing Fred Dyer, of "Wales, the father of a beating at Melbourne Stadium recently. Mr R. L. Baker is making every effort to induce George Chip (U.S.T to visit Australia and try his skill against Les Darcy.

A member of the Southland Times staff has received a letter from the well known Maoriland amateur middleweight champion, A. Wood. The ex-South lander at the time of writing was home in England from Gallipoli on sick leave, and was residing with his parents. World’s 'lightweight, champion Freddie Welsh declares that it is his ambition to remain in the ring for another year and then ..retire an unbeaten premiership holder.

It is stated that Harold Hardwick and Les Darcy are likely to meet early in December for the heavyweight championship of Australia. Patrons of the sport in Sydney are talking about the abilities of a bantam named Holmes. The Referee says Holmes is "nothing short of a wonder.” Hren, the Melbourne lightweight, who secured the championship in the class by defeating. McCoy in Sydney recently, did not hold the honour for any great length of time. In a return match at Mel - bourne on October 30 McCoy won on points after a close contest. Matt Wells, the well known English lightweight, was opposed by Charles White, of Chicago, ip a sensational ten rounds contest at Milwaukee on October 20. In accordance with the State law, no decision was given by the referee, but popular opinion and the newspaper critics alike conceded that Wells won by a small margin of points. ■ Herb McCoy belted the lightweight championship of Australia out of Tommy Uren recently at Melbourne (says the Bulletin) in retaliation for losing it to that wallop-trafficker a few weeks ago at Sydney. About 9000 worshippers of stoush attended the service and when Bro. Quirk gave the Victorian his blessing at the end of 20 rounds the “amen” was general. ITren, who fought a good fight and had McCoy’s backers figuring more than once on a penurious weekend, expressed the opinion that his opponent out-gencralled him, although he was firm that Mc.’s boxing was no better. Bren's trouble was that while he was standing bv. waiting for chances to get in his hard-boiled righ, McCoy was accumulating points. In the ISth round, a good chance offering, the right landed like a chunk of lead; hut it was too close up to gong-time, and McCoy weathered the trouble. It was a close call, though. After the scrap Hren asked the winner for another flutter. “Of course I will,” chirruped McCoy; “I never nurse the title." “I was a rumhound and a bankroll for fair, and I don’t regret what I’ve done. But I tel! you. young man, pass it up. . . When I was an athlete it was my resolution and spirit that carried all human antagonists before me. But my resolution and spirit were of no use to me when I went up against John Barleycorn."—.lohn L. Sullivan, touring D.'S.A. on a blue-ribbon campaign. An American feather-weight tells the following story;—“A few years ago I landed up in Prince Rupert, a town in British Columbia. The manager of one of the clubs there asked me if I wanted to fight twelve rounds with some Canadian bottler. Tos.’ I said, ‘what do I get for it?’ ‘Twenty-five dollars for a twelve-round fight is the best I can give you,’ said the manager. ‘We only can draw a few hundred people here.’ AA'ell. I’d been getting SOOdol to BOOdol for my fights through that section, but 1 decided tiiat 2-Adol was 25d01, and that it would pay my hotel bill in that town, so I consented to go on. I knocked out the other fellow in the first round. After the show was over I hunted up the manager. ‘l'd like to have my money,’ I told him. ‘Oh, sure,’ he said, and he hands me two Idol bills and a dime. ‘What's the matter here.’ 1 ask£d. T was to get 25d0l and you’re giving me only 2.10d01.’ ’That's all right, ain’t it?* he answered. ‘No, it ain't,’ I said. ‘l’m 22.1 Odol shy.’ ‘You're getting all that’s coming to you,' returned the manager. “The agreement tvas for you to box twelve rounds for fridol. That’s an average of about 2.1 Odol per round, ain't it? Yon knocked that guy out in the first, and so get paid only for the time you worked—one round.' ”

Harry Pearce, the well known sculler, is Ims Darcy’s new manager and trainer (writes Mr \V. F. Corbett in Sydney Sun of Nov. 10). I tarcy is just now, I am informed, enjoying a short stay under the family rooftree at Maitland. Pearce visited the Stadium yesterday. or the day before, and intimated that Darcy would like to nave a shy at the heavyweight championship. As Hardwick was. apparently, the strongest lion in the path of our middleweight premier's new ambition, Darcy declared that a matcli with him would he very much to his liking. Hardwick said yes straightaway when approached re - yarding the matter, and Mr Mnuro informs mo, signed the necessary agreement yesterday. The contest will take place early in 'December. Evidently Darcy has changed his mind about having four weeks spell before facing his return match with McGoorty. This sudden determination to invade the territory of the heavyweights bears out my conviction expressed some weeks back that the Maitlander was not likely to remain a middleweight much longer, also that lie experienced, perhaps, more trouble than McGoorty did in getting down to list 01b ringside. Darcy' hits for quite a while hovered between the last 211) of the division's limit. Sometimes he stripped slightly inside the finishing 5 A Th- As he is a strong and a healthy lad. and still growing, it is only reasonable that lie should (ind it more difficult to keep inside (lie poundage section where the very beginning of his career discovered him.