BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 12

BOXING.

WHO WAS THE GREATEST? SEVER AL FANCIED. Asked bv a correspondent to say who was the best fighter, pouna for pound, measured by pounds and abilitv in the history of the ring, Mi Granttand Rice, America s Joreraost sports writer, said: There are several candidates to U entered m this parade. One is Jimmy "Wilde, thBiitish fiy-v, -eight, a great boxer and hard hitter, at 103 Pounds. Another is Joe Cans. Still another is Fitzsimmons, the only fighter n» the to be middle-weight, light Law-weight and heavyweight ehampiou.' Fit/- was the best of the h.-avv-wepdits. pound for pound. Weighing v;as still a terrific puncher, u.wl omof the smartest Hmerx that ever danbled in the leather trade. Anotner great fighter for hi- «'e,gi,t «•»* Uuin- Greb, who. at hi-* I*-"*- .win. have'come cW* to whipping *i:y heavv-weight living. Not to iorg-t a certain fighter ly the name o Sam Langford, who is stii. ” Jmany as tile them. GOLF. NEWS AND NOTES. A BIGGER HOLEr ft is {/united out by -Max -1- be: . an American goiter that any eidaig*— m.rnt of the hob- would detmiormtiie whole game of golf. '‘Those wmv favor enlarging the lick uni to realise that its .-.bee is the hazard t*> wlifih all other hazard- a/e subsidiary (he say.t>. Jr rom the veiy . v.-e set forth to SuUJije It. Jt *- *. to drive as lar we can ttiid u--our ball advantageous!y in order T*> better our chance or laying it smm - where near the cup* m tne appioa- - Tiie enlargement of the hole w.-u.-d. r-i.Uvi a repercussion right !>ack : > the ice, and in e-uiisequenc-e quart'* ol stroke would deteriorate. And question is constaiitly ieing a-.-:-! wiiy a foot putt should count ;*s much as a long drive. It so com s because it l- not a .-epaia-.e ■ hut part of a series of efforts x: '*i must be looked upon as a «nom- it is the final brush strokes tha. Us'.the portrait." He might have -a that the man who misses the pre.se:. hole would im-.- a bucket, bect-si—--seven times out of ten he us show.. USING THE MASH lE. The mashie shot call- for m r-* ccioDactnes; iu the swing than any ether stroke m golf, anti a na.iswiug is better than a ruil s. : ng. This is because the mashie pitch for extreme accuracy. The bail must b<* hit just so for the desired rc-suit - Tiiis accuracy often is lost thro": b too much looseness in the wrist- h the brack swing. There is very LetL wri.-t action until near the t"f • f the back swing, when the wrist- d s break upward a little. This is ; natural bending upward of the wr:-t-. net a forced action .such as takes place when the player makes * ; -i wrists break the mashie blade directly back from the ball. You throw the mashie head exactly as if it were a weight on the end of the shaft, making it- attain its maximum t-j’o- - icy at the instant it hits the bah. Practice drawing it back with the idea that the head ef the club is merely a weight that is to ' v thrown into the ball. Thai will help you get the "reel" of the blade in your lingers. In mashie pitching the stance is slightly open for fell distance—over I(V‘ yards—and as tiie stance becomes more opened :• r snerter distances the ball should fie on a hue midway - between the rUt or perhaps slightly, back of that. Ti *.* minds are slighly in front- of tiie blade at all times. This is becau-e tne Wade must take the ball just ierore it reaches the bottom of its ate m the downward swing. ' • right hand putting. M a ion hand should control tiie putter lias puzzled many plavers. A'* American suggests above ail a lig' r b-old. taking the putter back with the lert and doing the actual hitting wiiii t.ie right, keeping the putt* • race steadily at right angles to tit.* line cz roll during the entire swir g n the club. Hagen putts with it :'* h.anus. which share equally in a 8"eiit stroke. Tne advice given a***.'-*.'' would be difficult to carry out except in tne ease or a putter with :u exaggeratedly upright swing, a>.d many of v the best putters do a hunch tiiemselves over the hall bu:. make a point of letting the toe ef tiie club turn at the end of die stroke. Putting is a case of pk-a-e yourself. TENNIS. KEFN TO UMPIRE. At the conclusion of the teams ehampiousaip at Miramar, a Sydney visitor, a player of some note, voi-.vd Ins appreciation of tiie maimer In. which the tournament had Uvu cord lie ted and to the oxcelleutv of the grass courts. One thing which stunk him toreii ly, ho said, was th** keen "ay ui which players umpired the many matches. In Sydney, on the contrary, it was next to itupessilde to get volunteers and matches had often to l*o played without umpuvs. lit New Zealand, apparently, {'layers were keen enough to carry out- their very tuwssary duty when asked., which was much to their credit.