BOXING.

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14776, 15 October 1921, Page 14 (Supplement)

BOXING.

(By “Left Lead.”) Te Kuiti is to hold its first amateur tournament on November 1. Several of the local boxers will be competing and the assistance of the Hamilton Association will be given to the meeting. On Labour Day, October 24, a tournament is being held at Tauranga, to which a party of Hamilton lads will be giving their support. Waihi is also sending over a contingent. “The only thought in my mind is to gel close enough to the other fellow to ‘sock’ him.”—Jack Dempsey. A certaiu pugilist accepted an invitation to light a local champion, ana sallied forth with victory in his eye. lie returned also with victory in his eye. "1 can sec you’ve won,” exclaimed a friend. “Was it a knockout ?" “It sure was!” replied the pugilist. “I knocked 'em all out!" ■■All? I thought you only went to fight one man.” “So 1 did,” answered the boxer. “And, he hasn't a single tooth left in his head.” THE FAKE FIGHT. JOILNSUN-WILLARD FIGHT. The Jack Johnson-Willard fight will still be remembered as well as the stories then circulated about the result being "faked.” The story of Bat Maslcrson in The New York Morning Telegraph is, therefore, of especial interest. Maslcrson says:— Having occupied a ringside seal close to Willard’s corner that day and seen and heard all that took place, 1 feel qualified to speak intelligently on Ihe subject. Johnson or anyone else cod’hl not make me believe or even suspect that the light was not waged on its merits. And if Johnson or any other man connected with the affair says or intimates that there was anything crooked about Ihe light 1 want to go on record right here and now as denouncing the "fake” story as an unmitigated falsehood. John was whipped as fairly that day as any fighter was over whipped anywhere. Tin; idea of stringing a fight along for the picture or for any crooked purpose whatever for twentysix rounds is so ridiculous that nobody Iml an ignoramus would rulerlain such a thought fora moment. H the fight was a fako for a moneyed consideration or for Hie benefit of the (Lionlmucd uu uage 15.)