BOXING

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17568, 19 June 1925, Page 4

BOXING

NOTES AND COMMENTS BY

"CESTUS."

Nothing further has been heard with t respect to Laurie Cadman since a I Press Association message from Auckland, dated June 15, stated that he was missing. He had booked a passage by the Manaia from Tauranga to Auckland. his ticket was collected, and his bag was in his cabin, but he had not been seen on the voyage. It is thought that he may have gone ashore at Tauranga, but his friends have not been advised to that effect. Where is he? Reg. Trowein, the young Auckland light-weight, proved too strong and vigorous for Jimmy Hill, the .Australian, when they met. at the Wellington Town Hall on June 16. before a crowd that is estimated to have numbered 3000. Hill cried enough at the end of the seventh round. Geor . ' Cook, the Australian heavyweight. was adjudged the loser on points in a ten-round bout with Young vStribling, at Boston, on June 10. The second contest between Tom

Heenev, tlie New Zealand lieawweight. and j. Squires, heavy-weight j champion of South Africa, at Capetown on June 15, ended as did the first at \ Johannesburg in a win for Honey. There was this difference, however, for .while the bout went to the full distance on the first occasion, on the second Squires was counted out in the eighteenth round. } The Christchurch Sports Club will j hold a mixed competition at the Caledonian Hail next Tuesday. T. Harris T. Long will provide the professional contest, and there will bo half a ; dozen amateur bouts in addition. Business interests have compelled ! Gornik to return to Australia. He will ! come over again if sufficient induce- * meats are offering. Eugene Volaire, hero of many a gallant fight, and a real fine sportsman, appears to be slipping down hill. He lost again recently, being, according to reports, completely outpointed by I Eddie Butcher. An Australian Boxing Commission is long overdue, says the Sydney “ Bulletin,” as a tag to a paragraph on matches arranged in connect.io:i with the Sydney Stadium. During tho last four years Xow York 1 fans alone paid 18,000,000 dollars to witness boxing contests. 10,000,000 dollars went to the. boxers, tho b'Lafce Board received 212,046 dollars, and tho State 934,67 0 dollars leaving a. neb revenue of 709.000 dollars. The remaining sums went to promoters, employees, real estate interest in rents and Federal taxes. Ihe .Melbourne Stadium manage-* mont claims that there is an induce-1 luent for a boxer to win under the new system of short bouts. On a i recent Saturday, the “house” was worth £4 1 3 17s. After paying £lO tor the preliminary, tho management took 50 per cent, leaving £231 18s 6d. : *° I'"' twelve-round bout three-fifths-—’ £1.39 os- was allotted. Tho winner 1”- 3d. For ih«' ten-round fighters there was £92 I.A Gd, and of tin’s tho winner got £55 15s 3d. and tho, loser £37 2s 3d. Harrv Wills, the negro heavy-weight, i has given up hope of ever meeting! Deinpsov. and has signed articles to ‘ meet AVoinart on June 19. and God - j \ frey, also n negro, at a later date. , There are two reasons why a. match 1 <

i c-a.nnot be arranged between Dempsey J and Wills—first because Dempsey de-rr.-ands a guarantee that no promoter will agree, to. and second because of the strong feeling still existing against matching a negro for tho championsh i p. A boxer whose progress is being watched with a deo.l of interest in America is Jimmy Slattery. He has twice outpointed Delaney, who is regarded as the equal of IJerienbach, who recently won the light-heavy-weight tide from Mike MJTigue. Slattery, however, so far has only taken part in short bouts, as he is not yet twentyone, and the New York Commission rules prohibit any boxer under that age going the longer route. James J. Corbett, in “Tho Rise and Fall of a Champion,” his recently pub* lished hook, tells of his thoughts when standing over the prostrate form of the once great lighter from whom la* had just taken the world s champion ship • -“I should have felt proud and

dazed, but the only thin K I could think of, right after tho knock-out, was Sullivan lying there on the floor. 1 was actually disgusted with the crowd, and it left- a lasting impression on me. Jt struck me as sad to sea all tho&O thousands who had given him such a wonderful ovation when lie entered tho j ring turning it to me now that ho } was down and out." I According to a*u American writer Joeseph Benjamin would bo lightweight champion were it not for the fact that he is handicapped by facial i beauty. “Joseph,” says tho writer, | “ possesses considerable manly pulchrij tude. He is well aware of this and i is determined that he will not have } profile on full view in tho ring : If he only had Kid Broad's physiog- | nomy lie would be light-weight chamj l»ion in no time. The trouble is that l Joseph is always ducking to avoid gathering a, tin ear or a broken beezer. That’s because lie is a good-looking lad. I Ii ho looked like Kid Broad he would I wade in and take chances.” I ” TCid YE’Coy, one of the greatest fighters in his day. who recently went into prison at San Quentin to serve from four to thirt.y-eiglit years for killing Mrs Teresa Mors’ in *Los Angeles, and for his shooting affair in an antique, store the day after Mrs Mors wa-s slain, has been put to work in the dreaded jut© mill. M’Coy asked to bo allowed to act as physical instructor to his fellow-prisoners, but his request was refused. For several years" M t'ov. who, by the way, holds the record in America as the most married man. lie having had eight wives, was ior several years well-known in the i motion picture world, having appeared ! in minor parts in quite a, number of productions. Referring to the light-weight elimination competition promoted bv the New York Commission for the purpose of procuring a champion to fill th> breach left Vacant by the resignation 01 lleli nv Leonard, a New York writer says : The tournament seems to liav« demonstrated that there is not a good iight-v. eitrht in tho entire cowntrv Mnmr.iv Mnndell. tho Rocklond lml. is tno oest m ;i very jjoor nssortment. Kot one of the bouts developed .'inv t -ontender eanable of lastinr „ whole round will, Gnus. Nelson, Woleast rnv of t),e fifth tars of the days when 1 ight-weignts could make 133 pounds r.ruomlo .'.ml could fucht. Mnndeil may become light-weight chanmion bv popular consent or by popular indiffor-