BUILDING UP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 4

BUILDING UP

FLYWEIGHT BOXER’S EFFORT TO GET TO GAMES AT BERLIN. Realising that by 1940 his chances of representing Australia at the Olympic. Games will be much less than it is today, Harry Cooper, Australian flyweight boxing champion, is making a special effort to build up his weight for the trip to Ber,in this year. One of the greatest features of • uo-per's many successes—he has won 38 of h : s 41 contests—is the fact that in no case has he been able to gel. within 51b. of his opponent, while in some he has conceded a>s much as 71b. A suggestion that it. would be risky Io take a lad who would be so much below the class limit induced Cooper to concentrate on a special diet in which eggs played a big part. Already satisfactory results have been obtained, despite regular training and other exercise. | and the young champion can turn the i indicator round to 7.9, whereas in most [of his contests he had not been heavier • than 7.3. Should Cooper gain selection for BerHin, it is confidently believed that as i a. result of the long sea trip he would i be mu< h nearer the 8.0 permitted in the | fly weight division. There is no more able boxer aspiring to selection in Aus- | tralia, while increased poundage would | enable him to deliver even more effective punches than hitherto. ! Cooper won his first ."hain.pionship—i Victorian junior—in 1930, while in ' 1932. although adjudged onlv runner-up in the State senior championship, he | won the Australian title. Since then he j has won every State Australian, National Games and inter-Doininior