BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 8

BOXING.

» ELLIOTT WANTS TO Visk NEW ZEALAND. "Billy" Elliott waits to visit New Zealand to meet any of the featherweights ill that land- .(says a Sydney exchange). . The popular _ young- English boy would: like to settle m Now Zealand. OWEN MORAN IN AUSTRALIA. Owen Moran, the' famous English boxer, arrived in Sydney last week. His arrival forms an important item in the history of Australian boxing, for of all present English exponents of the game, perhaps Moran is the best known the world Over. . Ho is 29 years of age, sft. 4m. high. He should be an excellent match, in that respect, for the first opponent he will be asked to meet/ Matt Wells, whose inches are tho same, but the last-named will have an advantage In weight of about 31b., Moran s poundngo being 9»t. 41b. He can at a pinch dispose of the odd pounds and do feather-weight. His record opens from 13 years back. Up to the .termination of last year he was the principal in no fewer than 10 i contests, winning 60 (36 of which wero | by knock-outs), and'losing 10, while seven ' wero draws, and 30. no-decision I bouts. Only onco did he. suffer defeat by a knock-out,'that being done by Adat San Francisco on July 4, 1911° in tho thirteenth. round, for the light-weight championship of the world, and manv axe of the opinion that tho blow landed so low that really a ?oul occurred. j. i i The greatest of his many great deeds during his wonderfully successful career was probablv that which occurred on November 26, 1910, when he defeated Battling Nelson, tho "Durable Dane, by means of a knock-out in the eleventh round, thus establishing tho unique re-

cord of being the only man up to the end of last year to succeed in causing the ox-champion to tnke the count. A TCtilly srrcjit performance was this, and ono that was thought impossible by those who had witnessed- Nelson in his hundred or so battles preceding his meeting with Moran.— "Sydney Referee." ■