BOXING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9674, 16 October 1909, Page 5

BOXING.

At a meeting of the West Coast. Boxing Association, held at Greymouth last week, the referee's report in the heavy-weight bout between Bevan and Muhdy, in the recent tourney, was received and discussed! The committee unanimously decided to disqualify ln>th> competitors for three years. Stress was laid upon the fact that the sport must be kept olean at all costs. . , Wyndham boxing, enthusiasts have decided to form a local Association next season, under the control of th 6 South r land Boxing Association. Also, a meeting of enthusiasts at Westpbrt has decided to form a branch of the West Coast Association and apply for affiliation. If permission is granted, a tourney will" be held before the end of the year. A sub-centre of the newly-formed Wairarapa Boxing Association has 'been formed at Eketahuna, under the patronage of the Mayor, Mr B. Page. The Australasian Amateur Boxing Conference decided that -the 1910chanif)ionships should be held in ;New Zeaand, as was expected, it being this country's turn. In all probability; the contests will h§ held at Auckland. Apparently the remit .from the New Zealand Association that the bantamweight limit should be increased to Bst 41b .was, not accepted. The welter weight limit was V a 'fcd' to lOst 91b — not an appieciab^ difference in that class... . :.• ' ■. . . ' ■'..■■*■....■.'.. .-.. Charlie Griffin,- the Antipodean feather-weight boxer, is back /again in England looking for work ; inthe. ring (writes the London correspondent of the "Canterbury Times "). He is particularly anxious -to have another turn with Jim Driscoll, the clever Welshman, but the latter has beaten Griffin twice already, once at the National Sporting Club and onoe in America. Under these circumstances I think it is very unlikely that he will be able^ to command backing for the money that Driscoll would ... want put up, and it is hardly likely that any club or syndicate would offer a prirse for the contest sufficiently big to induce Driscoll to waive substantial side stakes. Taking a : square view of the matter I fancy Griffin will have to fly at much lower game than, the Welshman for some time to come. The Moran-Driscoll* contest has been virtually declared "off," owing to the former refusing to box for a purse of £2000 (offered by a Welsh syndicate) after £3000 had been previously .offered. "It looks," wrote Moran to liondon " Sporting Life," " as if purses had been offered for the fun of /the thing, and as the matter should have been settled by August 13, it gives me no chance to train." The purse of '£3ooo which Moran mentions was offered by Mr Barry Jacobs, the Lend-on promoter, and was genuine, but Moran did not agree in time. Also, the £2000 is equal to anything previously boxed for in England. < The Slavin-Jackson contest was for that amount. Driscoll is quite railing to box for the sum mentioned by the Welshmen, and considers it hard, fines to be robbed of this match when in the mids^ of training. The meeting between Fred Welsh and Henri Piet, the French light-weight champion, took place at Mountain Ash, South Wales, on August 23. Great things had been prophesied by the Frenchman's backers: The first three rounds were evenly contested, and the Frenchman was not behindhand in points, and some of his left, leads scored heavily. Welsh, however, by consistent work and superior, ring tactics,^ wore down his opponent, who gave up in the twelfth round. The "Sporting Life" (London} correspondent states that Piet made a plucky and surprisingly good show all through, but was clearly tackling a far cleverer boxer in Welsh. The Frenchman's chief asset was his footwork. It 1 was afterwards explained by Piet that he strained his leg in the fourth round, aad as it was getting increasingly weak : and painful he was compelled to retire in the twelfth.