BOXING

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1911, Page 7

BOXING

THE EBONY PERSON AND—

WHAT ?

WHY IS LESTER OUT HERE?

(By "Mercury" in the "Dominion.")

Two "White Man's Hopes" have come under notice lately. One, "Jack" Lester — Tommy Burn's protegre — has actually been in New Zealand, en route to Sydney to give battle to "Bill" Lang- next month. Just why- Lester has come to Australia is Tather a puzzle — unless he has come in search of easj' money A contest with Lang- does not seem to hold sufficient inducement for so long a voyage. In tbe inevitable interview in Auckland, Lester said he had come to acquire ring experience. Which seems strange considering that Australia has never been- so .badly off for "heavies" as she is at present, while the United States are full of second-raters, who could provide Lester with . all the ring experience he could possibly want before he could clean them all up. He says that he has fought 30 contests, and won them all, in which case he is no novice in trie ring. In fact, there is no heavyweight in Australia with any such record wlio can kive him any further experience worth coming all that way for If he beats Lang, there is no one else .to trouble him on this side of the world, while, if Lang beats him — well, he will dwindle from a "hope" to the smallest of "slight expectations.,*' Langford ,plainly showed that Lang is not in the hope class, so all the less so will Lester be if Lank beats him.'