BOXING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 July 1924, Page 9

BOXING.

THE ZIMMERMAN-PARKER FIGHT . Now that -Fred Zimmerman, the Canadian light-heavyweight champion, is back in lunar u, feeling lit and well after his trip to Australia, interest in his forthcoming meeting with Eddie Parker, light-heavy and middleweight champion of New Zealand, is-increas. ing. Zimmerman’s work' in tliC gym suggests that he is in even better-con diuon than before' rhis enforced lioli day. .■*' . The Canuck is well aware that in Eddie Parker he is up against a stilt proposition, but he ds none the less conlident that he will come out on top. His record shows him to be a knock-out artist of the first order, for in Ids fifty odd contests lie has defeated half his opponents by the k. 0., very early in tjic. proceedings. A writer in the ‘"Sydney Sportsman,” describing the Canadian’s bout with Tom O’Malley, popularly known as “the wild man from Ounna mulia,” says: “Zimmerman may not be exactly a Carpentier as far boxing goes, "but ho certainly can shift sqmething with that right / lie carries. O’Malley was just wanning to his job (the fight, had reached, the-y second round) “when all of a sudden -it nailed over. Toni didn’t quite know wnfrt hit. him- He was. of the opinion that someone had lassoed his legs and jerked tnem from under him.” There can be no doubt tluvt Zimmerman is a fighter, and tip and run tactics arc not included in his strategy. Writing of his fight with Archie Hamilton at Newcastle,' N.SAV., a criticsavs: “It was the best fight seen hero for a long time. 'They fought all the time showing cleverness combined with very hard hitting. Either should havo a good chance of becoming heavy weight champion. A remarkable thins; about the contest was that for lk rounds there was not one clinch or an order to break.” Hamilton, by the wav, recently went 20 rounds with Lloyd in the" .Sydney stadium. A letter received from .Eddie Parkei says that he is fit and well after his contest with Heeney, whom he defeated in the eleventh round. Parker is expected to arrive in Tirnaru in a few days to complete his preparation for the big fight.