BOXING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20044, 6 September 1920, Page 3

BOXING.

$ ■, NEWS AND NOTES, (By “CESTUS.’’) , The Christchurch Sports Club is arranging to hold n, Novice Competition at tho Choral liaison September 25 and October 2, but the holding of the competition largely depends upon the quality of the talent'that is available for special six-round bouts. Thn secretory is endeavouring to bring..together Mnseon and Hannah (Hastings) or Muaeon ami Desmond ■(Wellington), and M’Cleary and Brownlie (Hastings), who met in the fmnl of the heavy-weight championship at Hastlugs. H. Gunn, who won the feather-weight championship ot Now Zealand at Hastings, proposes, I am told, to turn professional, his first, contest being against Gann, of Wanganui. Colin Bell, the Australian heavy-weight, whoso performances include matches, with Joe Jeannette and Bombardier Wells, is prepared to como_ to .New Zealand if matches are to be obtained. There are four Australian heavy-weights in New Zealand at present, hut- two of them at least, Tracey and Lloyd, appear to have given up the game for a less strenuous method of obtaining a living! Cook and Bell should bo a good match, hut after that. —what? Mr Harry Goodwin, who has Hen a prominent figure in boxing circles iu Now Zealand for quite a number of years, bus been appointed Australasian manager for Messrs Studobakcr, Limited, and will take up Ms residence in Sydney. On tho «ve of bis departure he was entertained by the committee of the Timaru Association, with which he has been associated practically from its inception. Mr Goodwin’s efforts in tho interests of boxing have not been confined to Timaru, for he has been a regular attendant at New Zealand conferences, and hag very materially assisted iu promoting the introduction of rules which have been for tho benefit of the sport. A good boxer himself, a keen judge ot a boxer ami a great enthusiast, be has been tho means of putting many a, promising kd ou the road to success in the ting. Though ho now severs hia active connection with the sport in Now Zealand, I feel confident that he will over retain tho brightest of recollections of hia Jong association with it, and have no regrets tov the time and energy spent in its developmcnj-. The death was announced on Monday ot Mr . Thomas AVillinm AVintcr, a very old Christchurch resident, at the ripe age oi 103. Mr AVinter came to Christchurch over fifty years ago, and for quite a long time was_ a well-known figure in musical and singing circles. To tho general public he was boat known as n singer, mid appeared under tho name of M'elchoir Winter. 'Readers of my boxing notes possibly will be wondering what tuy object is in referring to the deceased gentleman; that reference to it musician and a singer is rather out of place in a. boxing column. Usually (.his would bo the case, but in this particular ruatance it is not, for while tho lafe Mr AVinter, ko far as T know, never took part in a, boxing contest, yet he had been a very tine boxer, and what is more to the point, he was the ecu of one of tho greatest pugilists England has produced. If you search the old records of the ring you’ll not find any pugilist, of nolo bearing the name of Winter, but the father of (be late My Winter was not known under that, name, but as Tom Spring. The name of Spring was conferred on him. by a sportsman, when Spring made hie appearance in tho ring. Tom Spring died in 1851, the chief mourner being his only surviving sou, Melchoir AViuter, who has just gone to his last rest.