BOXING

Southland Times, Issue 22074, 22 July 1933, Page 14

BOXING

Events Ahead. July 24.—Bert Lowe v. Vince Parker (Timaru), at Dunedin. Aug. s.— Bert Lowe (Dunedin) v. Tom Croft (West Coast), at Invercargill. Aug. 9.— Southland Amateur Championships. Aug. 30.— Professional Contest at Invercargill. Sept. 7,8, 9.— New Zealand Amateur Championships at Blenheim. Oct. 2 and 4.— Australasian amateur championships at Brisbane. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. “Interested” (Invercargill) writes:— “Would you please tell me the year Son Tall beat Billy Sycamore. Did they fight at Bluff or was it at Invercargill? Also did Son Tall fight under the name of Edwards?”—On August 4, 1920, at Bluff, Son Tall beat Billy Sycamore. Tall always fought under the name of Edwards.—“Veritas.” NEWS OF THE WEEK.

(By

“Veritas.”)

The Otautau Amateur Boxing Club is moving again in the promotion of another tournament. It is hoped to put one on in Otautau within the next week or so. The executive of the club was to have met this week, but no further particulars are to hand. M. Gonley is the secretary if any boy desirous of taking part in the proposed tournament is anxious to get any particulars.

It is reported that Arty Sutherland, amateur welter champion of Southland, is in hard training for championships ahead. Sutherland has stated his intention of taking part in the Otago championships as well as the Southland annual this year. Local schools going strongly at the present time include the Adams Bros., C. Wylie’s and Eric McNeil’s. At the recent tournament pupils of Wylie’s school were well in the picture and won three of the classes, feather, light and welter. Most prominent of the boys in this school are R. Neame, Pat Maaka, Merl Pascoe, G. Caddy and V. Davis. These lads are being taught along the right lines and every credit is due the instructor for his enthusiasm in putting the boys through their paces. Merl Pascoe has improved greatly of late. At the last tourney he was faster and made good use of a solid left and a right swing. Neame is another who

has improved out of sight. He is speeding up and developing his already solid punching. Maaka is the most scientific boxer in the school. In his last outing he proved to be too clever for his opponent. He is very fast and hits hard with that straight left. Caddy is a real trier and will fight all the time. He is a good straight Sher with a good wallop in either . He promises to do well in the game. Young Davis fought a good fight against his heavier opponent. He will be hard to beat in the open class once he puts more power behind his straight punches. It is pleasing to record that Eric McNeil is back in the game again and has several boys to prepare for events ahead. McNeil turned out four champions and a couple of runners-up at the last championships (Reidy, Mosley, Pasco and Sutherland). W. Jack and W. Pasco (light heavy) were the run-ners-up. •Besides Jack Reidy (light) and Bill Pasco (middle), at present training hard at the school are Frank Villa (heavy weight), Murray Arnold (middle) and seven novices in the lighter classes. McNeil hopes to have twelve boys ready for the next tournament with the prospects of entering at least five for the Southland championships. Jack Reidy is keen to defend his lightweight title. His injured arm is now all right again, and he will take the first opportunity to give it a thorough tryout. It is probable that he will be matched with the veteran Jack Kelly at Otautau.

Admirers of Carmen Spencer are prepared to back the Makarewa champion for a kingdom if ever he is asked to meet Jack Kelly again. They resent the imputation in the letter by “Justice” (in last week’s notes) that the Wyndham decision was a doubtful one. Bert Lowe and Vince Parker fight at Dunedin on Monday night. It is hoped by southern fans that the bout will be broadcast as usual.

The Auckland Boxing Association is in communication with Johnny Freeman, the American heavy-weight at present in Australia, with a view to his engaging in matches in Auckland. It was reported recently that Jack Dempsey was spending his boxing earnings at the rate of £20,000 a year. Here’s a list of money won by Jack Dempsey in his most important ring encounters:—G.ene Tunney (Philadelphia) 711,868 dollars; Gene Tunney (Chicago) 425,000; Angelo Firpo (N.Y.), 470,000; Jack Sharkey (N.Y.), 350.711; Georges Carpentier (Jersey City), 300,000; -Tommy Gibbons (Shelby, Mat.) 265,000; Bill Brennan (N.Y.), 100,000; Jess Willard (Toledo, O.), 27,500; Billy Misko (Benton Harbour, Mich.), 55,000 dollars.

Bill Pasco has been engaged to fight ine of the preliminaries to the LoweParker fight at Dunedin on Monday night. He is to meet W. Brough (Dunedin) in a special six-rounder. Brough met R. Bagrie at Invercargill last year. Apropos of the complaint about the Wyndham boy who was left to himself after suffering a bad lip injury during the recent amateur tournament, it is pleasing to record that the S.B.A. is absolved from any possible negligence in the matter. Officials were unaware that the boy was in a bad way. It was the duty of the boy’s trainer to report the matter in which case every attention would have been forthcoming, including probable treatment at the theatre. It is a pity the affair was overlooked, as the S.B.A. is anxious to have any matters such as this attended to without delay. A young Maori heavyweight named Moa Wharera has been discovered at Hokianga (says a northern writer). He 's 21 years of age, and weighs 14st Gib. The fact that he recently fought a draw at Whangarei with F. Lindsay, who, it will be remembered, gained a points decision over L. Painter at the Auckland Town Hall a few weeks ago, oroves that the Maori possesses ability. He has come to Auckland for tuition which he is receiving at the Fire Brigade gymnasium. When Jimmy McLarnin scored a first-round knockout over Young Corbett 111 at Los Angeles on May 29 to take the latter’s world welterweight title 35,000 people were present. Two knockdowns towards the close of the round spelt ruin for Corbett. The first was a right to the jaw that spun Corbett around and sent the Californian down for the count of eight. Corbett stood uncertainly on his feet, and McLarnin dashed in with a left to the jaw. The champion went down for a second time, but didn’t wait for the count before pulling himself up. He was then a target for a series of lefts and rights by McLarnin, and he was sent down for a third time. The referee (Mr George Blake) did not even wait for a count that would have been nothing more than a hollow victory. He stopped the fight, waved towards McLarnin, and a new welter-weight champion had been crowned. The fight lasted 2min 37sec from the time the first gong sounded until the referee pointed to McLarnin as the winner. Georges Carpentier and Willie Meehan fought in every division in pugilism. Who else can boast such a performance? asks “Olympian” in the N. Z. Sportsman. Billy “Young” Stribling has scored more knockouts than any other pugilist. George Chaney, Baltimore lightweight, runs second. Jim Jefferies engaged in less than twenty five fights during his entire career and had but eleven fights under his belt when he won the world’s heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons.

Mr. Sam Russell, on behalf of the Wandsworth greyhound stadium, has offered a purse of £2,000 for a fight between Jack Hood, the welter-weight champion, and Jack (Kid) Berg (says an English writer). In a twelve three-minutes round boxing contest at the Hyde Park Greyhound Track, Sheffield, recently, Francois Machtens, feather-weight chamnion of Belgium, defeated Johny Cuthbert, Sheffield, light-weight champion of Great Britain, on points. Over 20,000 saw the fight.