BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 222, 19 September 1934, Page 4

BOXING

By

“THE MARQUIS."

The New Zealand amateur boxing championships will be held at Hastings this week, extending over three days. They will commence to-day and will be continued to-morrow and Friday.

The Australian amateurs who are to make a .tour of New Zealand next month will meet the Dominion representatives at Invercargill on October 10 and 11 in the amateur Test match.

On October 15 the Australian amateurs will engage in a series of bouts against leading Wellington amateurs, while on October 22 they will meet the Australian amateurs.

Acording to the annual report of the New Zealand Boxing Council the Dominon’s professional champions on June 30 wore:—Bantam, G. Wright (Christchurch); feather, C. Rayner (Blenheim); light, J. Franklin (Gisborne); welter, E. Morgan (Nelson); middle, H. Lister (Greymouth, now in Australia); light-heavy and heavy, R. Nicol (Invercargill). Wright has‘since announced his retirement.

Otago will be represented by a very small team at the New Zealand amateur championships (says the Dunedin Star). Billy Drew has earned his place as the flyweight representative if ever a boy did. He has been one of the leading members of his division for some years past, he has a great knowledge of ringcraft, and, what is more, is a natural flyweight. The lightweight champion, J. Ramsay, has also been selected, and though he will find the going hard in this division he is a boy who can take it as well as ladle it out, Mr. J. Drew will accompany the boys

An application for a professional licence has been made by Frankie Bruno (Auckland), a former holder of the Dominion amateur bantamweight title. Bruno is a rugged little twohanded fighter with a cheerful personality which never deserts him, even in the face of the heaviest punishment, and is always very popular with the spectators. Incidentally, he is also quite a clever caricaturist.

Apparently a match between Jack Carroll and Ambrose Palmer will be fought at Sydney Stadium when Palmer returns from New Zealand (says the Sydney Referee). The match will attract a large crowd, but whether it is a wise match is another thing. Carroll is a great enough welterweight to be the uncrowned middleweight monarch; but to tackle a cruiserweight of Palmer’s class is perhaps asking too much of him. • • • • Max Baer has informed .the Madison Square Garden authorities that he will not defend Jiis world’s heavyweight boxing title this auttunh (reports the San Francisco Chronicle). The action was not unexpected, since Aneil Hoffman, his, manager, has indicated that ho was making too much money from show business and motion picture contracts to bother any more fighting this year. Jimmy Johnston, the Garden matchmaker, immediately got busy and devised a plan to invite Steve Hamas Ptimo Camera, Art Lasky, and the Winner of the Walter Neusel-Max Schmeling bout in Germany to form a first division of heavyweights to meet in the first of a series of elimination rounds. Johnston proposes to match Hamas and Camera for the first contest.