FIELD, FLOOD and RING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 16

FIELD, FLOOD and RING

Norman Gillespie, the Australian light-weight boxer, has received an offer from South Africa for three contests of £IOO each and full expenses.

Ted Morgan, the Wellington southpaw welter-weight, has, it is reported, adopted the orthodox stance, and the change is said to have increased his fistic ability.

Alf Mancini, the London-born Italian, who has touched welter title matches a few times, knocked out Charles Ollivon, of France, in four rounds last month in London.

The latest “black shadow’' is Larry Johnson, a Chicago negro, a terrific punching light-heavyweight. He lost to the new cruiser-weight champion, Maxie Rosenblum, on a foul a month ago, but he has beaten most of the other heavies.

The road cycling championship of the world for amateurs and professionals will be held on August 3. The start and finish will be at Liege, Belgium, and the distance about 1244 miles.

A British Camera has been discovered at West Bromwich, in England, in Sid Barnes. He is 6ft. 6in. in height and weighs 16st. In a recent bout he knocked down an opponent four times in a minute before the referee intervened. He has been offered engagements in London.

Tom Heeney, the New Zealand heavyweight boxer, still trains daily, according to two residents of Gisborne, who have recently returned from the United States. He has a palatial home at Long Island, New York, with special training quarters.

It was only 24 hours before the time of the team’s sailing that the Auckland Centre officials were given a definite statement that Savidan was to go to the Empire Games. The centre is very dissatisfied with the way the British Empire Games Committee in Wellington had handled Savidan’s case.

England has discovered a polevaulter who looks like clearing 13 feet before he is much older. L. T. Bond, of London University, vaulted progressively 11 feet 4 5-8 inches on one afternoon recently. A fortnight later, in the University Athletic Union championships, at Manchester, he tried to go still higher, but he had to be content with a win at 12 feet 1 inch.

This year the Amateur Swimming Association had to arrange their championship fixtures so that they will not clash with the Empire Games trip to Hamilton (says an English writer). Although it has been decided to send a team, it is not known how many swimmers will make up the party. This is a matter that will be governed by finance and performances in the trials w T hich will take place shortly. Already it has been decided not to enter a water polo team.

It is a rare occurrence when failing light causes the abandonment of a football match, but such was the case in the Rangers-Celtic game played in the Auckland Football Association’s Falcon Cup competition at Devonport recently. The contest w r as played under knock-out rules, and, as the teams were level. 2—all, at the close of 90 minutes, extra time had to be played. Celtic ran up two goals in quick time in the first part of the extra halfhour. but the absence of light caused much difficulty and the referee had no other course but to stop play.

Slam Sullivan, who has a contract with Hancock, is thinking of bringing Young Halliday over to meet Donovan, and if he does then Hancock will accompany the pair and engage in further contests in the Dominion. Halliday is only seventeen years of age, and in his last ten fights has won nine by the knock-out route. Hancock, who saw Donovan in action at Dunedin, considers that the Aussie youngster is the very one to jab the head off Donovan, althought he freely admits that Donovan’s style of milling is pleasing to watch.

According to Tilden, France has a new trio of lawn tennis stars coming to the front in Merlin. Goldschmidt and Le Scner. Merlin is stated to be

the best and to possess an impetuous attack with brilliant volleying. Goldschmidt hits equally hard, but is steadier and lacks the instinctive tennis of the former. Le Sener is a left-hander with a good service and a backhand of the Lacoste school.

The secretary of the Auckland Cricket Association. Mr N. E. Hockin, has received a cablegram from A. F. Wensley, the Sussex professional, intimating his acceptance of the position of coach to the Auckland Cricket Association for the coming season. Wensley has been playing fine cricket in England this season and has come to the fore as a first-class all-rounder. The coach will arrive in Auckland by the Tainui about the middle of October.

Maxie Rosenblum, of the New York “Ghetto,” is the cruiser-weight champion of the world (says an Australian writer). He snatched the crown from the head of the Buffalo “dancing master.” Jimmy Slattery, on June 26 at Buffalo, New York State, before a crowd of 15,000. Much hooting greeted the verdict, the majority of the spectators holding that, the bout was even, and if straws had to be split the decision should have been for Slattery. The referee, however, passed

another world’s title from an Irishman to a Hebrew. The irony of the thing is this: Slattery held the title he has battled for for years just under a month; and out of the six meetings between Slattery and Rosenblum it is only the second time the latter has shaded the Buffalo boy. The fact that Rosenblum is a New York boy, and the enthusiasts hooted the verdict, doesn’t say much for the new champion. Rosenblum is the second Hebrew to win the title. The list of champions of this division is studded with the names of Irish fighters of Irish descent. The first champion—l9o6

Jack Root, was an Austrian, but names like Harry Greb, Tommy Loughran. Gene Tunney, Philadelphian Jack O’Brien, Tommy Burns, and Bob Fitzsimmons are Celts or Anglo-Saxons. Georges Carpentier. of France, knocked out the last Jewish champion. Battling Levinsky, in 1920.

The brilliant Australian Rugby League five-eighths, Jeff Moores, returned to Sydney last week after three seasons of football with the Leeds Club, England. Moores did refnarkably well for his club, which he captained during the past season, an honour rarely conferred upon a colonial player. Of Hargreaves, the ex-Aucklander, Moores speaks glowingly. The Queenslander considers Hargreaves the best wing threequarter in England and compares him with H. Finch, the speedy Kangaroo back, who did so well on the recent English tour.

Every Australian team visiting England and every English team visiting Australia seems to discover problems they think are fresh, says an Australian paper. But they are as old as the hills. For instance W. M. Woodfull and his team think a day’s rest after a test would be better than one prior to the start of each test. This It would give them a chance to rehas long been the opinion of cricketers, cover after the physical and mental reaction following concentration on four days’ play. It is even more necessary now than in the three days’ regime. But the programme has to be arranged to meet the views of both parties and in this matter the English counties, with their heavy financial responsibilities, have to be considered.

Victorio Campolo, the South American heavy-weight, is heir to one of the largest and most prosperous ranches in the Argentine, and Henry Le Mar, a young heavy-weight coming to the top, is a scion of an old Washington family. He married a society girl with half a million dollars, and is still fighting. They have no money worries, and fight for the love of the game, but they miss the joy of a boy who has punched his way from near poverty to affluence.

Lou Magnolia, regarded as one of the best referees in America, was not considered by the New York Commission when preparing the list of those eligible to officiate in connection with the Sharkey-Schmeling fight. James A. Farley, chairman of the New York

State Commission, made no bones about telling why (says a New York writer). “I have no personal prejudice against Magnolia,” Farley declared. “In fact, he is a very good friend of mine. Bue he made a terrible mess of the Miami fight and right now we are looking around for an official who can be relied upon to give 100 per cent, service in the Sharkey-Schmeling fight.”

The following account of the closing scene of the Sharkey-Schmeling fight is supplied by the special correspondent of the Sydney “Referee”: When Schmeling had been carried to his corner, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling’s manager, Johhny Buckley, Sharkey’s manager, and a flock of seconds, milled round Jimmy Crowley, demanding his decison. Crowley had “missed” the foul, so he asked Howard Barnes,‘one of the judges, if he had seen it. Before Barnes could reply, the bell rang for the fifth round. Sharkey rushed to the groaning German’s corner and challenged him to “come out and fight.” Crowley paid no attention to either of the fighters, but continued his consultation with' Barnes. The latter was emphatic, and claimed to have seen the punch start and finish, and it was low. Crowley hesitated for a full minute, while managers and seconds gripped and tugged at him, clamouring for a decison in favour of their particular man. Crowley jerked himself free, and went to a neutral corner, where, after wondering awhile, he scribbled on a slip of paper and handed it to announcer Joe Humphries, who clarioned: “Schmeling winner on a foul in the fourth.”