BOXING.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 21 (Supplement)

BOXING.

HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. TOURNAMENT ON MONDAY. GOOD QUALITY AMATEURS. (By "Left Lead.”) The Hamilton Boxing Association will stage an amateur tournament at the Drill llall on Monday evening next, when a capacity house is anticipated .o witness the various bouts. It is to be an all amateur programme and the matching has been well made, so far as can be judged on paper. The six-round bouts will be provided by T. Mullins (Te ICuiti), and J. Jurie (Rotorua), while 11. Johns (Auckland) and J. Wilson (Frankton) will also come together, doth these contests promise active milling from gong to gong throughout their full session. The supporting bouts each of four 2-minute rounds are as follows:

T. Chandler (Okoroire), South Auckland heavy-weight champion, v. E. Brown (Paeroa). R. Parkinson (Te Awamutu), South Auckland heavy-weight champion, v. J. Shadbolt (Auckland). B. Bowler (Hamilton), South Auckland bantam-weight champion, y. R. Andrews (Auckland), ex-South Auckland fly-weight champion).

' J. Purdie (Auckland) v. T. Williams (Hamilton). G. Campbell (Okoroire) v. S. Gibb (Rotorua).

Bell (Pirongia) v. S. Pratt, (Franktorn) . G. Sutherland (Okoroire) v. J. Butler (Te Aroha). . R. Wilson (Frankton) v. T. Starnes (Frankton). G. Williams (Paeroa) v. C. Jones (Korokonui). J. Flack (Cambridge) v. P. Carr (Frankton). W. Singer (Huntly) v. R. Bowler (Hamilton).

Popular prices of admission are being levied and the initiative of the local executive should be amply rewarded by the volume of public support. NOTES ’AND COMMENTS. “Jock” Wilson is ready to put up Lhe best performance of his career when he steps into ring in opposition to, Harry. Johns, the crack Aucklander, on Monday at local headquarters. Pete Sarron, .who will be remembered for the . contests he had wUh Donovan last season, lias left for his home in America, but hopes 10 return to this country in the near future. All the boxers at the local school are in excellent condition for their engagements on Labour night. When Ambrose Palmer meets Jack Haines for the middle weight championship on November 1, it should be the best fight of the year. _ One is a Victorian and the other a New South Welshman, and a great rivalry exists between the two States. Jurie, of Rotorua, who is matched with Terry Mullins, the New Zealand light heavy-weight at Hamilton on Monday, is reported to be a tough nut to crack and will make the champion step on it before the end of the bout, so it is said. Young Llew Edwards is considered one of the best feather-weights ,in Australia .at the present time and would be a good match for Leckie and Donovan. All the best amateurs of the Auckland Province are competing at the local tournament on Monday and a good night’s sport 'is assured. Carven (Tony) Tuzzolini, the middleweight Italian-American meets Frank Van on Saturday (to-night) at the Sydney Stadium. . Pete Sarron stated before he left that if there had been any opponents for him he would not have thought of returning to America, as he had a lot of time for New Zealand. ' a Sydney paper states there is nobody fit to be called heavy-weight champion of Australia at the present tlme - ‘ . C* , Trevor Wignall, writing in the Sydney Referee, was asked to write down the seven greatest boxers in his own experience. They were in rotation: Jimmy Wilde, Jack Dempsey, Leonard, Driscoll, Carpentier, Kid Lewis, and Gene T-unney. ; There will be plenty of solid work on Monday when Chandler and Brown meet in the heavy-weight contest at the local tournament. Palmer, who beat Haines in Sydney a couple of weeks ■ ago, is called the “greyhound of the ring.” COLOUR PREJUDICE. “WILL NOT MEET ME." Len Johnson, the Manchester (England) coloured f middle-weight who fought in Australia three years ago, ’caused a - sensation in Britain last month by announcing his retirement. He stated: — “They will not meet me. The prejudice against my colour has prevented me wanning a championship, and I feel there is no use whatever going on with the business. . I have beaten the middle-weight ohampion, Len Harvey, twice, the cruiser champion once, and have had £SOO up for a match with Phil Scott for months. The conditions of British titles prevent me fighting at the National Sporting Club and the Albert Hall, and, in fact, wherever there is big _ money, I am kept out of it. I am just fed up, and that’s all there is to it." Lord Lonsdale commented: “Johnson is an excellent boxer and I admire ' him, but there it is 1” Critics refuse to believe that Johnson will stick to his resolution. Norman Hurst, writing in the Sporting Chronicle, stated: “Johnson has a fortune hidden in his cunning gloves and regardless of belt matches he earned almost as much money last year as Scott, and probably more than Harvey.” . . . . Johnson was born at Ardwicic, England, of a white English mother and a coloured father, a native of British West Indies, who domiciled in England when he was 17. Later the management of the “Ring" issued a writ against Johnson for refusing to fulfil his contract, made and signed before he announced his retirement. ,