BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 4

BOXING

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Little further may be reported !■ g connection with the efforts of th< I Wanganui Boxing Association lo arinnge a professional bout during the present season, ami as it would not lx a wise policy to take a risk with the small credit balance, the committee could justifiably follow the inclination to put off the promotion of a professional contest till next season. The New Zeaiand amateur championships are to be held at Hastings thii month, being set down for September 19 20 and 21. Last year’s tournament at Blenheim was an eminently-success-ful affair. The visit of the Australian amateur boxing contingent next month is going to arouse considerable interest throughout, the Dominion. They will meet New Zealand amateurs in a Test tournament at Invercargill on October 10 and 11, following up with a tourney at Wellington against Wellington on October 15. while the contest against Auckland will take place on October 22 at Auck land. It is reported that George Singleton and Ray Nicol have been matched by the Otago Boxing Association to fight 'for the heavyweight championship of New Zealand at Dunedin oi September 29, the night of the NorthSouth Rugby match. Since Ambrose Palmer made his ap poarance on the present visit to New Zealand there have been plenty of discussions on past big lights, and the Lcckie-Sarron and Donovan-Sarron clashes have produced plenty of argument. It is worth recalling that in Sydney in 1929, Johnnie Leckie outpointed Pete Sarron over 15 rounds. A return took place a few weeks later in the same city and Sarron won in 13 rounds. Tho Sarron-Donovan series took place in 1930. A.t New Plymouth Donovan won on a foul in the seventh round. In subsequent contests in Wellington and Dunedin he won on points. • ♦ * - In a sparkling exhibition of fast, open boxing, Cyril Hurnc, of Wellington, clearly outpointed Dal Costa, the bantamweight champion of New South Wales, in a 15-rounds contest at Blenheim. reports the Marlborough Express. It was one of the most brilliant allround displays ever seen in the local ring. The winner completely rehabilitated himself in the eyes of ’ocai boxing enthusiasts who have seen him defeated on two occasions bv the local professional, Clarrie Rayner. Tlurne proved himself the complete master nf the Australian, and stood revealed not. only as a boxer of unusual sneed Rud talents, hut also as a staver. Certainly he was too fast and clever to sustain anv severe punishment, hut he withstood a series of whirlwind attacks with which the visitor tried to retrieve the verdict, and finished full nf fight, handing out a good deal more than he was getting. It. was a high-speed contest from start to finish, with two slick glove artists employing every bit of skill, wile, and ring strategy at their command in an effort to prevail. Tod Morgan met Reg Hickey, a Queensland climber, at Brisbane, and after a whale of a fight the lad Hickey, putting in a strong finish, received a drawn decision. He, was lucky (says a writer in an exchange). • » 4T • Apparently a match between Jack Carroll and Ambrose Palmer will he fought at Sydney Stadium when Palmer returns from New Zealand (says the Referee). Tho match will attract a large crowd, nut whether it is a wise match, is another thing. Carroll is a groat enough welter-weight to bo the uncrowned middle-weight, monarch; but to tackle a cruiser-weight of Palmer’s class is perhaps asking too much of him, Billy Harms, the South African middle, has returned to Australia and has started in training. Harms will he remembered for his contests there with Jack Haines and others of that period. Maxie Rosenbloom will shortly defend his world’s light heavy-weight championship—or what ho has loft of it—against a young Italian named Dick Fiermonte. Fiermonte’s chief claii to fame is that he entered into New fork’s social “four hundred” when he married Mrs Javcob Astor. Rosenbloom was recently outpointed by the former world’s middle-weight champion, Mickey Walker, and by Lee (says the Sydney Referee). £3090 a year. Sarazen, who was a comparatively rich man before he won the title, made less, but certainly more than £20,000. Hagen, it is thought, made most of all. but. the figures of his earnings are not readily available. Anyway, he has always been dubbed the ‘Million Dollar Golfer,’ and certainly he heads the list of those who have amassed a fortune from golf.” Ono hundred and fifty yards to the pin—traps to carry and a sloping green to hold—here’s the shot that make# the average woman golfer, and a goodly number of men, stop, look, and wonder will lake a brassie or spoon out of the bag. states Walter Hagen. If they carry all trouble, they are liable to be over the green, for to put stop on the ball with a wooden club js hard. Of course it’s a full mid-iron shot for the majority of women, and a mashie-iron for mo.st men. Since either club i® practically played the same, I will outline here a few essentials in playing * full iron shot which, if you will follow them, may change this useful club from your worst enemy to your best friend. Most women, and the average hundred men, try to lift or scoop the ball with, an iron club- iron shots are your trouble, try this instead. Stand a little closer to the ball, slowly take the club back. Start the club down with a stiff left arm. Hit the ball on the down swing, keeping the wrists fairly firm. Played this way, the fact of the club takes care of lofting the ball- Taking turf is usually the result of a wellplayed iron shot, never the cause. It means that the ball has been hit first and the turf afterwards. Practising these important essentials will make for straight flying, quick stopping iron shots.