BOXING.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15359, 6 October 1923, Page 17 (Supplement)

BOXING.

(By “ Left Lead’.”)

Answers to Queries.

More people paid to see the Dcmp-sey-Flrpo than the Dempsey-Carpen-tier fight.

(1) Eddie McGoorty and Jimmy Glabby mot in Australia. (2) Griflo is alive in America.

Pars From All Parts.

Archie Bradley and Harry Collins are the pair who will provide the milling at Sydney Stadium this evening. , , Hughle Dwyer, Australia’s light:weight champion, foil from his pedestal in his first bout in America. To be beaten-, by Joe Wellings “in a listless ten round's” does not sound too favourable. . Tommy Fairhall and Eugene Volaire wir meet in their return bout at Cambridge on October 20.

Tommy Gibbons and Georges Carpentier is a match in' regard to which there has been preliminary talk. It would prove a fast and interesting bout. _ . . Harry Wills provides a study m patience. He has not fought for nearly a'• year now, and he could have made at least 100,000 dollars had he cared to fight. But the big black man wanted to fight Dempsey, and he would fight no one else. The Aucklander, Bert Facoory, and Mike Flynn, formerly of Australia, and the featherweight title holder, will box for that honour at Auckland on October 22. Georges Carpentier, by accounting

so readily for Joe Beckett, the English champion, has once again demonstrated very clearly that Beckett is very much of a dud. More fare for Sydney Stadium fans. Bugler Lake, English bantam-weight champion, and Roland 'Todd, English middle-weight title holder, are announced as likely to pack their gloves and sleeve-links and visit Australia. Harry Wills, the negro champion boxer, has literary tastes ! ’Tis said that it is his Invariable rule to read a couple of chapters of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" before entering the ring with a white man. Bert Spargo was to have fought Macarid Villon at Melbourne on Saturday, but the bout had to be delayed owing to Spargo getting mixed up in a tram accident. Jack Finnie, the latest of the Australian brigade to reach the Dominion, will be opposed by Tommy Fairhall, another of thq oversea team, at the liutt on Monday " evening. Since Jimmy Wilde, formerly World’s fly-weight, title (holder, announced his retirement from the ring, several English fly-weights have made claim to the British title in that class. Frank Ash, Johnny Jones, Frankie Kestrcll, and Len Oldfield, the leading fighters in the division, have proclaimed ownership of the crown. It is likely that before long Australia will welcome to its shores Joe Shugrue, the great American lightweight, and ' his brilliant brother, Johnnv, who a year ago defeated Johnny Dundee, the present world’s feather-weight champion. Johnny Shugrue is after Dundee for another match, so presumably his visit to Austialia will depend on his success in his effort to garner world’s honours. Joe Shugrue was in Australia for a time some years ago. The one-time dazzling speed and superb footwork of Jack Green was missing from that boxer’s contest with Bert Ristuccia at Melbourne Stadium. The gruelling contests of his fine career, which began when lie was a mere lad, have taken grim toll of his nuggety frame. Ristuccia hopelessly over-matched him, and in round five the police stopped the fight. Before then the crowd clamoured for the close of a match that was ending in a massacre, Green' is sans the strength and stamina needed to hold his own nowadays with front-rank featherweights. Ristuccia, a youth, made his debut' against' Green as a feather. ’ The thrill-provider staged by Jack Dempsey and Wild Bull Firpo is hailed as a distinct triumph for the left as against the right swing without much assistance from the sinister weapon on the left side. The result was a big lift for the science of boxing. It was only when Dempsey remembered to box, as well as to fight,, that he won. In the first round Dempsey was as crude as Firpo. His boxing had left him, his ideas of science were forgotten, and lie became a wild, fighting man—just like Firpo. ./But when the second round opened, Dempsey came up cool-headed and savage, and Firpo’s chance was absolutely gone. No title changes as quickly as the Australian heavy-weight. Since February 24, from Colin Bell it passed on lo Jim Roland Dwyer, to Em Wadily and then to Ern Sheppeard. The latter, after holding it for a fortnight only, lost the honour to Blackie Miller, the naval champion. Such an authority as Bill Lawless (.“Solar Plexus”) sorted Miller out as the goods, and Lawless knows his job.