BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 12

BOXING.

(By -MmnrDßT li

•/ ENTER SULLIVAN?,AND; WELLS. { 'o'-r':"\: y':- : fixtures.?. ,-:■<;;;' :; September 15.—W.8.A: Tourney,- Sid 5u1..:.: ..:.: 'livan. . V.. /"Dealer'-' ; Wells,;' Opera '? 'House.: /.'/',:;,'/. '?':{■? ■'~'' ■. '.'■■ ','-'■:'.■ .•!S|d" 'and "Dealer." I '-..'' ' {.; ,?/;{/"{{; ;{■ "Another stago toward;.'.the V scttlenioht ,of-the' impending {Wells-Sullivan ''disturb--'ance'joh September liext— ; .waa reached' on.; Wednesday last,, by the {landing of the,participants in good order .and;.condition.- {The men are now' well ;into, the .final- stages..'of. their preparatory, workv-Sullivan.at Richard's Pastime-Club .iii'Newtowni;with.Leckie and Eronstadt (installed as sparring partners,; and Wolls. at; Tracy's,; under .{tie, supervision of. the genial ,"Tim." ■, Of {{the {' condition •'. and keenness of {the . two .-■ "feathers"-' there ;can be? no doubt, and/ a. fast scientific contest can. be. 1 confidently looked ;. ; for. Tho'redoubtable, "Sid" has hisllaurels ,to' retain—for .'some time, he .'was Australian chanipipn in;.- his class-rand Wells ; has comu over/with the honours ot. a yibtoiy' of-"Tom" Eeidy fresh upon him'.'/ /. Otthis bout the;lust "Referee" 'says:—. "A; very ,■ fair {house . saw .'Dealer' .Well* ' badly beat 'Tom'. Hoidy at the.' Gaiety last' Saturday, night. ;.lteidy'fl left to;''tho /head was neatly, blocked, but the Bamo hand in the body, good and hard, both hurt and surprised,the.Newtown lad'., Thus-iar. an interesting.-battle, was expected,. but quite' the reverse.- happened, for never; for a;moment al'ter'did llio plucky' Granville, boxer have-the semblance of a ..chance,' Wells's right-crosses ;put him dowir for 'three'/ in the; third round, and , three times for Bsec. each in the; fourth. 'The end. came in' the, eighth round, when, a .short'right jolt, caused Eeidy .to. fall forward with both arms around 'Dealer's' neckband both men fell.'.Wells got. up 'instantly, but. Roidy was countedvout'.'-'

Goodßill' For Our Tourney. ,■ '»■■ ; . :/l?or/ various reasons the, list of/ preliminaries has undergone sbmo alteration, in which the public T is;fortunate, as.the last state' of tub 'programme ;is infinitely better than:'the/first. The two chief, bouts will be: an amateur; contest : between. New Zealand;'.champion."JJ'reddy" "Kerr' and Havill, -of- Palmerston Northland a -professional- six : round/;.bout.between'.-,-"Doss" Burns,'..of : Petone,' and 'I.'. Lcckiei.v.the .'well-known local middle-weight.... In ad'ditiou/there is to. be a. skipping exhibition : oy.an"amateur expert;' and'a bout between two lads* of promise from St. Anne's. Club ,v-fi.n..all a menu that should satisfy, the /veriest gourmand. / ■ ': ; ,.' ...--. The* Big Auckland Disturbances.. . -Another. ..Australasian' .' championship mooting has .run its course,: and once again have.New Zealand amateur boxers held- their /'own, against the . elect • , of the older Australian States.' True our representatives did no ; more than draw with' Nevi South; Wales in the'number of wins—each State securing /three victories in ■ tho six classes—but 'it.-/must,be. remembered that, . in. the bantam; contests, oar representatives, through misadventure, did not' get a chance : to show : their mettle. O'Brien, of Auckland, could riot' compete through .sickness, and Ellis,, the local bantam, could not draw the weight,; which left iiogan, of Queensland, and King, of New. South.Wales, to settle the argument Between /them, with the result, that the latter won. , Details of the boxing have already appeared ...in The .Dominion's 'colnmns,-so call for no iemark The 'gate receipts were very satisfactory,' and of'tho rest the Auckland "Star" says:— "The finals were interesting for. the most part, but one or two were spoilt by, .incessant clinching, which savoured more of a.professional contest than amateur jboxing. The referee, Mr. T. P. Burke, seemed to have no control over tho men, and instead of insisting on a clean break, allowed certain of the competitors to lie on their -Opponents until thoy woro shoved off. Tho judges, Messrs. A. Pluggb and F, Dyer, failed to' agree in four of the bouts, and in tho feather, light, and welter-weight divisions extra rounds had to be boxed. The carnival was well conducted by. the various officials, under the secretary, Mr. J. H. Trudgeon, everything passing off satisfactorily.'. 1 ' Poor William Lang! So once again has Australia provided a 'lemon" for the American boxing press to jeer at.. Last time it was "Bill" Squires—this timo.it is'his conqueror, "Bill' - Laug.- Certainly, the lotter's fall jias not been so sensational as his predecessor's, but only because he did'not fly so high. But it should be sufficient to seriously damage his'future prospects for his conqueror, A, L. Kauffmann, is only considered a. second-rater in; .".The

States," and not too good a one at that. If the cabled reports are to be relied upon, tho Australian made a very poor showing, and, even in. tho short six rounds' journey, seems to have been hopelessly left behind.

And it does not appear to have been the shortness of the contest and its consequent high speed that beat him—which would have been quite understandable, us Lang is notoriously a slow starter, and a sluggish fighter—but ho appears to have been outboxed from the start. We are told that ho was nonplussed all through by Kauffmann's straight lefts to tho face; also that his leads went-astray, and that tho blows which ho did land lacked steam, which simply means that he lacked skill in the hner departments of ducking,' timing, etc. In fact, ho has not "made good," and so must be writ-ten-off as another of Australia's failures in the "heavy" division.

The "Jim" Griffin-Eudd contest, which was to have been the local heavy-weight's first incursion into professionalism, and which was- to have eventuated in Hawke's' Bay this week, had to be abandoned during tho week, as Griffin was unable to obtain the accessary medical certificate as to his fitnessi