BOXING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10924, 13 November 1913, Page 2

BOXING.

An eighteen-year-old lad named I l>'Arcy, is being spoken of in Sydney as a boxer who is likely to tako a high place in the boxing world. Tho Sydney Stadium_ management has secured contracts with Ray BronKon, Ferns, Saylor and M'Goorty/ all prominent American boxers. Sid Fitzsimmons scored his first win as a professional tho other day, in Sydney, defating Marquet, formerly of Christ church, in points in a ten-round bout. It is reported that efforts aro being made to match O. M'Millan, of Hob pit, winner of Australasian amateur bantam championship in 1912, with J. King, of Sydney, winner of tho championship this year. The crack Amerioan middlo-weighb, Eddie M'Gorty, has acoepted Mr R L. Baker's terms to visit Australia. His first engagement will be with Davo Smith, whom lie knocked out in America last year in tho first round. Fullalove, tho Melbourne amateur who competed in tho middle-weight Australasian Amateur Championship in Sydney in 1909, was reforeo for tho M'Lngan—-Mate Wells contest at Melbourne. Tho managers of tho principals could not agree on a rofereo, whereupon Mr R. L. Baker chose Fullalove. Dave Smith and "P. Bradley met in n- twenty-round contest at the Sydney Stadium on .October 26. Tho building was packed. Smith was too clever for Bradley. He did not give Bradley a chance to get in one of his knockout punches, and had a substantial margin of points when, at the end of twenty rounds, ho was declared the winner. Bradley took a lot of punishment. A cable message, dated San Francisco, October 28, states that, in a I ten-round bout between Langford and Lester (both of whom were recently in Australia) Lester gave up in the fifth round. A cablegram reports that, at Winnipeg, Young Saylor, a prominent Amorican light-weight, knocked out Freddie Welsh, the English champion, | in the ninth round of a twelve-round, bout. The referee, however, announced that the knock-out was due to a foul blow. Fathor Bernard Vaughan, the eminent London divine, is a staunch believer in boxing as a healthy exercise, and when speaking at Liverpool last month, he said that in passing through Lancashire ho could not help being struck by tho small stature of Lancashire lads. In towns clustering arouud Liverpool and Manchester he found : small, badlygrown, bow-leggod, and narrow-chest-ed lads; very many of the boys and young men looked bleached, not to say anemic, as though they suffered from want of oxygen, nitrogen and wholesome food. Did this mean that the hours of labour were too long? He thought not, and eaid too much time was spent in looking at kinemat-ograph pictures instead of healthy exercise in the open air. He thinks the corporations of Liverpool and Manchester ought to look to the physical well-being of citizens, and that every lad should be taught the noble art of solf-defence.