BOXING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10315, 26 January 1927, Page 7

BOXING

CUTHBERT OUTPOINTS CURLEY. (Received Jim. 25, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. At the National Sporting Club Johnny Guthbert Outpointed John Curley, lioluer of the featherweight championship, in a twenty round bout,—A.N. Z.C. A. NOTES AND NEWS. “Almost all the British .heavyweights of the moment are fighting as Englishmen fought over 100 years ago,” writer Trevor Wignall, an English critic. “They are standing up instead of crouching, and driving in straight lefts instead of swinging round-the-corner blows. The chief heavyweights in the United States at this moment —Tunncy, Delaney, Sharkey, Monte Munn, and P'ersson—all of whom I. have seen, are fighting just as Jem Mace and others before him did/ This is a point worthy of attention. It means that a new era —especially in heavyweight fighting i s setting in, that the day of the croucher is over, and that the style that first made boxing an art is returning to its own” . » , , rThe feather weight " contest, at Hastings for tile title Jj&tWhCxi Duke Maddox and Lin Robms&n has now “been postponed.t6 Cup night 29 April - Artie Hay/'the welter chaippion, has been -approached by the Timaru Boxing Association with -a view to a

contest being staged in the southern town very shortly. Hay has also been matched to meet Dick Loveridge at New Plymouth, but so far it is not definite whether the bout will be a title fight, but if it is the “Truth” belt will be at stake. Silvino Jamito will leave New Zealand shortly for America, via Australia., The Filipino earned something over £I3OO in purses, 'mostly the loser’s share, (Curing his stay in the south. He was always in demand because of his splendid gameness and the fact that when he fought he gave his best.