COURSING

Southland Times, Issue 20831, 20 July 1929, Page 19

COURSING

(By

“Plumpton.”)

Waterloo Cup meeting begins on Wednesday. , Big crowd expected at the Southland racecourse.

Prospects for successful fixture never looked brighter. . Southland showed how a meeting should be run in 1926. This year’s cup should be even better. Handsome cup donated by Mr Joseph Irving, Kennington, and valued at £2O, now on view in Mr T. Rankin’s window.

In addition winner gets £55. Hares reported to be in great fettle. All were caught in Southland by club members. Dogs from Patea to Bluff will be competing. Final nominations and draw on Monday evening. Draw will be published in Tuesday s Southland Tinies.

That well-known old coursing enthusiast, Viv. Jackson (who unfortunately is in failing health) has that good bitch -Wild Time entered. Wild Time is under the care of J. McCash.

Dowling Brothers have entered a finelooking black dog which very much resembles his great sire Lupelight. Lupelight won the cup in 1926, the last occasion the meeting was in Invercargill. Can his son bring further success to Dowling Brothers ? The genial Irishman, Dan Tither, who dearly loves a good dog, has the old favourite Paddy’s Pride running for him.

Paddy’s Pride recently won the Boyle Memorial Cup at Dunedin. It was Dan Tither’s Osterman which was runner-up to Lupelight in 1926. Gav. Pow has entered a full sister to Paddy’s Pride. Although small she is a clever worker.

The president (Mr G. Smith) has that good but unlucky dog Orangapai running in his interests.

Perhaps this year’s Waterloo will see his luck change. J. C. Smith’s representative is Jester, a dog I feel we have not yet seen at his best. Probably the other dogs will find he’s no joke. J. Butterfield, of Bluff, who always rolls up with an entry, will have his brindle dog Sea Shell running for him. This dog should have plenty of grit! George Millar will have a couple of dogs participating. These two, Lucky Laddie and Braemar King, divided the last stake run at Invercargill. If they are in as good condition as when last seen on the course they’ll keep the other dogs busy. J. Rattray’s entrant, Comedy Princess, who ran into money at the last Invercargill meeting, is a promising bitch, and as she is reported to have further improved she should take a lot of beating. Mr Burrows’s representative will, I understand, be that good old battler, Cross Eyes. This close working bitch is always dangerous.

Mark Crowe, who won the Plate in 1926 with Rose of Picardy, has a nomination and as Mark knows all there is to know about the necessary qualifications for a Waterloo Cup, the dog he nominates is sure to be a good one. Watty Amos, always to be seen where a coursing meeting is in progress, has entered Lady Linda. This very fast bitch is unfortunately shy in the slips. She is reported to be in great fettle. '. J. Tomkinson of trotting fame has a nomination. Realm is the dog’s name, and if “Tonky” knows as much about training dogs as he does about training the trotter, Realm and other horses, well —’nuf sed.

J. Jones is another Christchurch enthusiast who is sending down a dog. Papaio and Pilot will be Mr Penman’s representatives at the meeting. They are well known to Southlanders, having taken away the big money when last down here. Of the other northern dogs I regret I cannot say much as the final nominations do not close till Monday evening. The visiting dogs will arrive by the night express which reaches here on Monday morning. A special van will be put on for

them, and I hear there will be at least a dozen in it. It is to be hoped the sporting public will patronize the big meeting as well as it deserves. Given good weather, the sport provided should be of the best. .

BOXING

FIXTUBES

(By Self-Defence.) July 20. —Johnny Leckie v. Pete Sarron, at Sydney. (Return) July 20.—Tommy Donovan v. Kid Smith, at Stratford. July 26.—Southland Championships. August 29, 30 and 31. —New Zealand Amateur Championships, at Greymouth. It is reported that Johnny Leckie meets Pete Sarron in a return bout to-night. Entries for the Southland championships will be found on Page 10. At its meeting this week, the Southland Boxing Association decided to get into touch with Reg. Trowern (Auckland) and Ted Morgan, amateur welter-weight champion of the world who recently was granted a professional licence, with a view to matching the pair early in September. At the Brisbane Stadium on Friday, June 28, Lou Bloom of America, gained a points’ decision over Jack Roberts of Newcastle. Roberts claims that he was fouled badly in the 14th round, but the referee signalled the contestants to carry on. The Australian is supposed to have damaged his hands so badly that he will have to spell for at least two months. Bowing to the advice of his doctor, Johnny Leckie is going to take a spell from training for a fortnight says E.C.T. writing under date July 3 to the New Zealand Sportsman. Leckie received many heavy blows in his fight with Sarron and, having just recovered from influenza, should relish a rest. The New Zealander is booked to fight Sarron in a return on the 20th of this month.

At the annual meeting of the Gisborne Boxing Association, the balance-sheet showed that expenses in connection with the four carnivals held totalled £lO4, and the receipts £202 6/5., leaving a credit balance of £9B 6/5. Accumulated funds account showed a total of £286 18/-, to which has been added the year’s profit of £9B 6/5. The sum of £62 was spent on plant during the year, and the value of plant and Memorial Cup is now shown as £302. Following the Auckland amateur championships on July 29 and 30, the Northern Boxing Association has arranged a bout between Artie Hay, welterweight champion of New Zealand, and Billy Richards, the classy Australian welter. Richards has advised his desire to fight in Auckland and he will sign up with the association’s agents in Sydney. It is not yet known when he will arrive in Auckland. Hay is willing to meet the Australian and has commenced training in his home town. Reports of Richards’s ability -have been very good and it is expected that he will give Aucklanders a boxing treat. The northern authorities will have an option on his services, and, should he prove to be the goods, he will be matched again.— Olympian. A young Notting Hill feather-weight named Tommy Little has been marked down by good judges as certain to make a champion (says London Sporting Life). The lad is always fighting, winning on an average about nine contests in every ten. He is now developing a punch, which, added to undoubted boxing ability, is likely to put him right in the front rank very shortly.

Teddy Baldock, England’s bantam-weight champion, has had a career in sport outside the ring. He was school captain in cricket and football when he took to professional boxing at the age of fourteen; and although he has been kept in the ring since then, he has found time to attain proficiency in .cycling and swimming, sculling, and high and long jumping, among other pastimes. Baldock has had 155 contests in the ring, according to the tally kept, of which he has lost only two. During a recent visit to Los Angeles, where he has his home, Jack Dempsey denied that he had any intention of re-enter-ing the ring in the near future. Shortly before leaving the East for the West, when questioned as to his intentions, he stated that his price for a contest would be 1,000,000 dollars, and he didn’t know any promoter who would guarantee such a sum. The Otago amateur championships are to be held on July 29 and 30, and no entries will be accepted after July 22, at 5 p.m. The following classes are being decided: —Fly, bantam, feather, light, welter, middle, and heavy-weights. No entries .will be accepted from boys under seven stone in weight, and the association is moving in the right direction when it decided that no boxer shall be allowed to enter for more than one class. .

Says a writer in a New York paper, of Kid Chocolate, the Cuban coloured bantam, who has secured decisions over all the best men in his class: —If ever a fighter was cut out to fit into a championship crown ! perfectly, Kid Chocolate is the one. Chocolate is yet a boy, perhaps, within a year or so of the voting age. Yet, the wrinkled brow, sharp eyes and stern expression on his face cause one to feel that he must be older. Young in years, he is old in I experience and is well provided for with that worldly password, “money.” A short time back, when he first arrived here, he was penniless and far from honoured. It also took him but a short time to become acclimatised, and how he clicked. He is the original “It” boy. Fast as a flash he can hit as hard as the other fellow can take it, and is one of the most perfect pieces of fighting machinery in the business. Every move of his is timed. Every blow is carefully clocked, and his opponent’s perfectly countered and blocked. It will surprise many good judges of boxing if the “Keed” does not garner either the bantam-weight or feather-weight title, perhaps both, with another year. To date, the total earnings of Leckie and Griffiths in Australia . are: Leckie, £389 for four fights; Griffiths, £ll9 9/for three fights. Leckie received £175 for his fight with Grime, £62- and £47 for his two contests with Wilson and £lO5 for his mill with Sarron. Griffiths’s total was made up of £66, £24 3/- and £29 6/- for his contests with McAlister, Jackson and Connors respectively. It would appear as though a good business manager is needed to run the affairs of these two boys—• Leckie particularly. He is worth far more than he has received. —Olympian. THE SARRON FIGHT GRIFFITHS’S LOSS OF FORM. “Before my bout with Pete Sarron I was going and feeling well, but a slight attack of ’flu took it out of me,” declared Johnny Leckie in a letter to “Hooker” of the Dunedin Star. Leckie said he really should have had an extra week off, but the contest he described as being a tough one. He was not feeling much like fighting until he got wakened up. The seventh round was supposed to be a trimmer, and Sarron certainly shook the New Zealander up a bit to use his own words. “I was all right,” Johnny asserted, "but he crowded me and made things look worse than they were. I could not have been bad to come back and have him hanging on at the finish of this round. I was not in my best form at 8. 10J, and felt a little weak during the bout, though I thought I won all right as far as the points went. Sarron hits with the inside

and heel of the glove with both hands, which is illegal, but a lot of good judges cannot sec this. “Solar Plexus” was the only one who pointed this out.” Leckie thinks he will have a better run next time, for he will be stronger and better. At times in the recent contest, when Leckie back-moved Sarron, the latter would throw himself off his feet with the force of his hook and swing—a real wildcat. At the time of writing the return bout with Sarron was set down for July 20, though there appears to be a doubt as to whether it will be staged on that date or the week later.

“Somehow Tommy Griffiths could not get going in Sydney, yet in the gym. he went great,” Leckie proceeded. “I never saw him working so well as before the last fight, and in sparring work and work-outs he was fast and strong and used to go in and fight his man. I really thought he would win easily, and was disappointed— Tommy appears to suffer from stage-fright. Perhaps McAlister was still on his mind. Anyhow, he did not get over a good righthand punch high up in the second round.” Connors, who beat Griffiths in this mill, is a good type of fighter, stands up well, and punches straight and hard, and Leckie considers that if he is brought along quietly he will be a good one.. His father manages and trains hhn, and told Leckie he would like to take him to New Zealand, where Johnny ’considers he would do well. Leckie has two more fights to fulfil his contract, and if he does not get a good offer will soon be back in New Zealand.

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