BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 8

BOXING.

Previous to beating "Battling" Nelson for the light-weight championship of the world, , Ad. Wolgast met George Memsic ;at "Los Angeles on January 8, in a tenround spectacular contest. Wolgast barely got the decision, and in referring to the contest an American writer says:— For the full thirty .minutes the two men fought as no two light-weights ever battled here before. Not once during the ten rounds of vicious milling was either boy off his feet. The superb condition of Wolgast won for him. Had he entered the ring without every ounce of his fighting strength with him the boy might have been-dropped long before the finish of the tenth round. From start to finish the boys cast aside, all knowledge of boxing, and stood up toe to toe, and , wait for each other like a pair of fiends. "Cestus" in the London "Sportsman , / says:—Those who study boxing closely, and others who are interested ■ from ■ a •business points of view, know very .well what a pitch , the bandage business, has reached. If the thing wero confined to a soft linen wrapping it would not be so bad, though still,..to my thinking, undesirable, but when a boxer is bound up and tyred like the wheel of a motorcar it is surely .carrying the thing too far. fhe worst of it is that the men agree to wear so-and-so, and having done so the referee will be powerless until a , rule is embodied forbidding everything excepting a certain sized glove to be worn. Billy Elliott .is to meet , Sailor Duffy at the Gaiety, Sydney, to-night, and as both lads are said, to be fit there should be. considerable doing before the referee makes an announcement. Both little fellows are great fighters. Dick Culleii and Arthur Douglas are to. face each-, other at the Stadium, Sydney, on March 30. ' .

. Johnny Summers is in great fettle for his 1 match with Arthur Douglas next Wednesday night at the Stadium ■ (says the "Referee"), and Douglas promises to shape bettor than ever since his arrival in Australia, which ho will need to do, for the gentlemanly young Britisher is a cool, hard fighter, with , remarkable capacity for punishment, and a good, hard wallop in each of two straight punching hands than we have seen for a long time, a fact which is a deckled relief in these degenerate days of "corkscrew," "scissors," "loop de loop," "\& Blanche," and .other deliveries of. a more or less harmless nature. One believes in a good hook now and again, and an uppercut is always effectivo when well landed, but the spiral and twisting things exhibited occasionally, and made much of, are depressing in the extreme to those who have seen the best Mace school pupils in action. •'. -

Dave Smith, who had been training hard for his match with Arthur Cripps at Sydney last Wednesday., developed diphtheria on the previous Monday, and was ordered into hospital. An endeavour was made to get Ed. Williams to take Smith's place against Cripps, but this could not be managed, and ultimately Gunner Moir, who has had a good amount of training as Hackenschmidt's wrestling mate, and who had already go't well underway in his preparation- to'meet Ernie Lang, was persuaded to take Smith's place. A private cablegram received in Christchurch on Saturday states that Moir had an easy victory. Gunner Moir has been matched by the Stadium management to meet Ernie Laag, brother of well-known Bill of that ilk, on March 9.