NORM. GILLESPIE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1930, Page 3

NORM. GILLESPIE

Australian Lightweight Champion. Born Toobrack, Victoria, Xov. 23, 1907. Weight 9.6. Height sft Gin. Reach 69in.

r With a record of over 60 contests against the best.at and above his poundage in Australia, Gillespie canuot fail to provide Tommy Donovan, whom : he meets at the New'Plymouth Opera House to-morrow night, with a- ■ thrilling glove duel. -Reputed to be a tiger, when stung, the Australian champion has displayed, the best that he is capable of against' the type of battler he will meet at the local arena. His condition has ceased to cause his trainer worry, and he is literally "-bounding out of his skin,” Gillespie, because he chose to come to New Zealand, to fight for a series of £2OO purses in preference to fighting under a promoter in Australia whose terms permitted of meagre purse "cuts” of approximately £l7, was recently announced by the promoter in question to have forfeited his lightweight crown. The promoter forthwith matched for the title two. boys, Jimmy Kelso and Billy- Jones, the first of whom Gillespie has beaten in five rounds, and the latter on points in 15 rounds, much to the amusement of p -n--lic and critics alike, who maintain titles are won iui the ring, not by the decree’ of financially j interested, persons.