BOXING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

BOXING.

' 'V jOHAMIUONS TO BE. . v Mr--HugH^.Mcintosh, of Australia, And Jimmy Britt, cue of the world s #J" ex-champions, are, as I think X ; c.'U ypu before, searching for a 4 'white by means of a scriei of contents between our heavy state Hr. London writer under date .Nov. Last week 1 turned in at Kind's .place cn the South side * f the now a regular home of tho fboxer, to see extßombadier Wells and 'Seaman parsons tight; either oiie < or. tb© other of these men we were asked 'to believe —we don't believe, I• i ay say—was. a. champfon in the making* 'lt ; was a most disappointing coat est. k lt onfy 5 lasted iVEelis,. who" is veryj tall but seems jnipossibly,thia for atheavy weight, had .won without hit. It h?p-. pened in this way: Parsons, who seemed frightfully nervous, was hit r n the '• jawj not very hard,.l tliotight, hut, jost 'sufficient *to let Ihim know that jWells>,was about* Parsons appeared scared*a«<l' to the ropes, and, like 2W(foolish man* turned his back iWeUsf who landed a couple of blcns oh the, kidneys. Pars six dropped ik : log, .and was counted out, inuch\to everybody's'. He sur«Hy |pever : anjeasy fight agar;..> Although it would be absurd f o prethat »"WeDs approaches anywhere championship class, he is perhaps tfie best heavy man wte have got.'^'Jnts noli- saying much, i know, and the «dea fef his being matched with Jack fohnsom is absurd. . , However, there is why.n© did notr t try conclusions «with Bill ' the Australian champion*, who arrived here from America on.Mondav ntgnt^ * placed ■•himself in of Mr rntosh. and was "a£ home ,, on flar. X was invited fto this '"at and tiere are some impressions I ed. Lang is ft strong man, moi* than- six feet higji, with great square ' shoulders, a fist, and.a.iaic®. that tells of his profession; there. the nose that has been hard hit some tfme or other, broadened abnormally, ; end slightly twisted. It is the face.of . the .fighter, not nnjfieasant, thougn it • be bugged and having many corers?-rt - is-'a-studv. -Perhaps if one .did .rot ( &ow. Lang, who has> oome to London 1 Nom Australia, via America, j fighter, the roughly hewn lines oeAjs haid-rai fece would Tie taken to f.<fV<> | uncommon character; that M all,- fof Lang is softlv spoken; well and unos- j tentatioualy dreffied. • 1 _ ' j * " AnT as I talked to lum—tins man who is the heary-weighi champion of , AWralia.—l thonght of the then and , now; how; different from ther old dns« .. when fighting was nnTJing; when f-sm- ~ era ware the pets of the "Carinthmns ■ rather- than fortune makers. ■ i-'fy . mcsi times fbucht for the squire :h<n, , jometimes on the Thames reaches;; perhaps In a top-room of some fn«idlT. hbstelry; -wo did not make too of- science j it was hard htfcin". cffiW. than net strength against sh-enpth, Wit ; it-- was. nevertheltss. easy to speak f>t tlio "noWo art" even in those H'tignpne days, though much or it ■ was hrntal and crooked. This is a new age.