LANG-LESTER RETURN FIGHT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12798, 5 September 1911, Page 2

LANG-LESTER RETURN FIGHT.

RESULT'MEANS A LOT TO EACH MAN.

Tho average man usually has on© big chanco to- -make or unmake himself. Jack Lester, th o American heavyweight, had his ■opportunity""a couple of months back, and did not come through on the right side. Had his fight _with Bill Lang taken place in the tinted States he would have had to start again aiid fight his way up. But, fortunately for him, he has Australians to deal with, and very soon he will havo his second big chanco-to make a name for himself. What will happeu if ho is badly beaten is difficult to imagine. He is- already matched to fight Sam WVcn, but whether he would got any good matches outside that isy doubtful. But Lester has no thought of losing, m his second effort

. :■ .= • -.-is--1 5 cwit-urs of Australia's heavyweigjit cliampion. He thinks he js going to win, and he will enter tho ring jvith that idea in.his head. But is ■ the same opinion held genoralivr- Certainly there-is a lot of money about for the protege of Tommy Burns, but there can bo no doubt that if ho wins Lang must be regarded a« a very cheap champion. Lang hns been in the game for years. Not only has ho beaten everything in £ight in the Commonwealth, lut he has had the advantage of experience "i .A™«rK» and England. After that, v he cannot" beat a man who-is raw ho must '»b<> a poor champion: Of cout>», .there aro hundreds who are ot the opinion that Lang is not '■opablo of standing Lester off for 20, rounds. The American is a dangerous man for any boxer to meet. He has strength, pluck, determination, a dream punch in either hand, and is alWa .Jia_Me to land on^pf his.knockouts. But there is where Lang must no expected: to display his knowledge. If he cannot keep Lester away from him and keep out of danger of those nay-making swings he must bo icgarded as a poorer boxer than his worst enem .V ever credited him with being. When they met previously both of thorn were at a. disadvantage. Lester says ho -was not properly tuned up, wniJ-j Lang entered tho ring as nervous as a schoolgirl. This time his frends look to him to start out more confidently, and to fight with more ginger JtU the time. Whether that will"be so or ja<vfc remains to be eeen, but a well-known Sydney pressman who saw him beat Squires in Brisbane saye that he fought confidently then, and opines that ir he continues to fight as he did in the northern' capital there is only orjr» man alive" who will beat him—Jack Johnson.

At any rato, Lester.is going to faoe Lang .with a determination to win. "I think I'll beat him, sure." ho remarked during a chat at Sir Joseph Banks, liouany, where ho is* training, a couplo of dayt, ngo. "I feel better tin's time, I m tuned up beautifully, and the fellow will find he's not in for an easy time. I'll be right after him from tho jump, and if I don't get him it won't )0 my fault." Lester undoubtedly, looks well, and he says he fells well. Iho change in tho country did him good, and the heavy work he had with Jack Howard has loft him as hard as uads.

Lang also looks to be in rare shape. H<- is not troubling over the issue, ImL is not taking any risks. Ho. knows that although Lester is raw he is a very hard man- to beat, and consequently is training carefully under tho guidance of Dukn Mullins.