“Kid Delaney's” Ma Disliked His Boxing

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 13

“Kid Delaney's” Ma Disliked His Boxing

AND NO WONDER!

STORY OF EDDIE ROSS

? WELLINGTON, Thursday. ‘“Kid Delaney’ will apparently be remembered in Auckland for some time to come. He first came to New Zealaiji about 18 months ago, when he hoied Tommy Griffiths at Dunedin, under the name of Eddie Ross. It. was only Griffiths’s chivalry that prevented a knockout. Ross was hopelessly outclassed. On his second arrival in New Zealand a few months ago he assumed the name of “Delaney,” and was given ;l big boost by a local sporting paper. However, no record was produced to endorse this inflated opinion. Other uapers here refused to touch him. Delaney, through the representations of - Mr. Jack Warnes, endeavoured to obtain matches, and approached the Wellington Boxing Association. He fl-as given a try-out with a local amavar. not in the first flight, and his iw»ving did not warrant giving him , preliminary. Wellington dropped him without ceremony, and it came as a big shock here when he managed to get a match in Auckland. “-Delaney” claimed to have won the fly-weight championship of West Australia, but this is rather a nebulous distinction, as there are only about four fly-weights boxing in Australia, and Delaney had never come into the oolumns of the well-known sporting papers there. Asked why he changed his name, he said that his mother objected to his boxing.