HEENEY'S DEFEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 12

HEENEY'S DEFEAT.

LACK OF TRAINING ALLEGED

"COULD DEFEAT CAMPOLO."

(By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") GISBORNE, this day,

"Heeney is a rugged and courageous fighter, and has won many friend's and

boosters in America, but it was very evident that he had not trained for his last fight," stated an American business man in a letter to a Gisborne friend anent the Heenoy-Campolo clash at New York a month ago. "Heeney's younger and much larger Argentinian opponent, had attended to his preparation with the utmost care, and friend Heeney had to take the consequences," the writer continues. "It is my personal belief that Heeney could defeat Campolo and practically all the other hopefuls now scrambling for Tunney's vacated title- if he would train as diligently as he did for his fight with Tunney, but he must not take'all these young upstarts as pushovers and neglect his training with the idea that his experience and ruggedness will pull him through. He's becoming a trifle too old for that and it is neither safe nor good sportsmanship in any event. "Nevertheless the sympathy of the crowd seemed to be all with Heeney, and I hope the big boy will train carefully and stage a comeback in his next attempt as he is one of the gamest and fairest men who has ever appeared in any ring. He deserves the best, but he cannot hope to continue as a headliner indefinitely," the letter finishes.