BOXING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143550, 15 July 1911, Page 8

BOXING.

(By “Argus.")

The following have been chosen to represent Wellington province in the New Zealand amateur championships at Invercargill: Kutner (bantam), Tancred (weiter>, M'Carthy (lightweight), Ellis (leather-weight). * • Arthur Kelly, the Australian lightweight, who is now acting as sparring partner to Dave Smith., is to meet Sic! Sullivan, the clever Sydneysider, in Wellington on the 23th instant, the pair having been matched by the Wellington Boxing Association. The boxing contests for the championships of Otago were concluded in Dunedin on Tuesday night. Results, are as follows; Feather-weight. Final; Leckie beat Torrey. Welter-weight.— Final: Mains beat McLennan. HeavyWeight.—. Final: Mathewson beat Ruston. Light-weight.'—: FSual; Leckic beat McLennan.

The New South Wales team for the Australasian amateur boxing championships, to be decided at Brisbane on September 7,8, and 9, has been selected ns follows;. —Bantam, J. T. King; feather, W. Pearce; light, J. Loncrgan; welter, Len M'Carthy; middle, F. E. Thompson; heavy, A. Thompson. G. Olsen, the Auckland welterweight .boxer who fought a draw with A. C. Maxwell, the New Plymouth light-weight, at the Now Plymouth Association’s last 'tournament,.has won the welter-weight chnmpionohip of Auckland, and has been selected to represent the Northern Association in the welter-weight class at the New Zealand championships tournament.

J. Burns, who has won the amateur light-weight championship of Auckland for this reason, obtained it by a scries ' of knock-outs. In J:he first heat he boat L. Boss, last year’s champion, Ross crying quits in the third round. , Burns took a lot of punishment in the first round. ’ As a result of the Northern Boxing Association’s carnival on Monday and Tuesday, the champions of Auckland for the season arc': Bantams, G. Brown; feather-weight, E. W. Chapman; light-weight, J. Bums welterweight, G. Olsen; middle-weight, F. Holt; heavy-weight, A. Pcoloy. All these wen, with the exception of Brown, will represent Auckland at the New Zealand championships tournament at Invercargill oh, the 25th and 26th instant. . The various claimants to the heavyweight championship of, Australia'will have been satisfied by the end of thq year. Bill Lang will face Bill Squires in Brisbane in August, and, having promised Jack Lester the next fight, will meet the American in September. Bill Turner’s clamouring for consideration will also receive attention, and if lie puts up a side wager of £2OO the champion will give liim first call after the Lester engagement'. “We all know . that. where there’s' much talk there’s never any fight,” Sir John Madden, the Victorian Chief Justice. began, as he proceeded to open the annual amateur boxing andi wrestling championships in Melbourne week. He wont on to point cut that inthis time of the world’s history we had struck an easy-going : patch. We were too well off, we had too .much luxury. Therefore, anybody .who could urge young men to undertake strenuous personal athletic work would give thtem the best advice that could be given to them, not only because they would make a show in the eyes of their fellows, but for the part these ring competitions played ill fitting men.out for the world. No one would ever do anything that was so strong, athletic, lusty, and agile. Unless he liad ; the selfdenial to train fdr the work ho ha«r in hand he would never lie any good,, but if he’ did pursue those things he would be made n man.-—(Applause.). All-knew perfectly well that pluck would never bent Jack Johnson, but all the other qualities in the world would not heat him unless plijek was added to themi—(Applause.) Those who won each night would carry away’ very little more credit than the man who stood uji to a better man and took his hammering. —(Anphuiso.) It was said that there was'brutality in this sport. There was no brutality in one manly follow,knock-ing-spots off another manly fellow who .was doing his best to knock spots off ’him.—(Laughter and cheers.) A Reuter dispatch from New York, dated Mat* 27, to the English press, snya:,— The International Amateur Boxing Competitions wore decided this evening at the National Sporting Club. Tho results were:—Light-weights: A. Snonceley (England’) heat T. M‘Govcrn (New York), although twice knocked down. i Bantam-weight: T. Regan (BoMon) boat >V.. Allen tins decision - was- -received with hirscs. Middle-Weights: Semi-final round—-A. . ! NV. Snr.naers (Canada) was' twice knocked down ,by W. Beckman (America) and then withdrew. R. C. Warnos (England) beat N: Boutillicr ; (Canada). AVarncs easily moved his ; emperiority throughout the throe rounds to which the bouts were, limited. Beckman clHiongccl "Wnrnes the final, but the Englishman deelmH. and the bout went by.default to Beckman. Heavy-weights: A v . Spcnglcr (America)' boat F. Sparks (England): Ppa*'glcr won easily. 1251 b Class:' R. Erskinc (England): beat A. Roif (Canada) in the first round.. AUrgelher the. Englishmen won three matches and the Americans throe. At the Northern Boxing Association’s (Auckland,) tournament on. Tuesday •night a ten-round professional contest between Alf. Gault and Bert for.a purse provided by the association, was won oji points by Gault, who showed more cleverness than hi“ opponent. The weighty were: Gault .9st. 9U\, Murphy 9st. 10Gb. Murphy* Ivul tluA advantage of height and rfmeh. Tha first round was very quiet, both men boxing clean (reports the New Zealand Herald). Tho .second round was full of exchanges, in wliich both men did some good stopping Gault scored with a right cross, and Murphy with a straight right to tho jaw. Gault boxed, well in the third rmmd. and scored nicely with a double shift. There wns not much doing in the fourth and fifth rounds. (he boxing lacking excitement, i Murphv. having the I nst of the rounds. | Gault scored with left and right tn the face in tjie sixth round. There had not. j been many solid blows struck in the j fight up to this stage. The seventh I round was .brighter. a\pl in the eighth ] Gault, after scoring uell with the left j mid right, connected a straight left to Murphy’s jaw, and nearly outed him. i This was. the best round so far. The ninth round was im favour of Gault, who was hitting harder and landing more frequently. The last round was a groat go. and some heavy punches were swopped. Tlje decision to Gault was a popular one.