BOXING MATERIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 14

BOXING MATERIAL

BRTTAIN HAS C0MING CHAMPIONS ' but they should be treated as such not as money-making machines Lord Decies, ehairman of the National Sporting Club, is a man in pursuit of an ideal. He maintains that young boxers in Great Britain are potential champions and should be treated as such, and not purely as money-making machines. This is the consideration which prompted him to accept the chief office with the club, and it is the thought which will always add fuei to the fire of his enthusiasm if it ever shows signs of waning, says Sporting Life. Lord Decies is confident that the country could still produce men as good as any of those who have gone before. What has already been accomplished by the club in the shorfc space of two months is a source of gratification to him, for it has justified his ideal. Material of outstanding promise has been revealed, and the club is an institution already recognised as the home o£ clean and high-class sport. There was still a great deal to be done, he said, but the chief concern of the board had been to get matters moving smoothly at headquarters. Now that this had been done, other schemes would soon be put into operation. Prices Soared Acquisition of West End Club premises for boxing was necessary, and efforts had been made to secure them, but it had been found that whenever the name of the N.S.C. was mentioned in this connection, prices soared. For this reason the matter had been allowed to drop for a while, but it had certainly not been abandoned. Lord Decies explained that competitions would ^eventually become a big feature of the club's programme, but he added that he was more concerned with the smaller men. He realised that occasional heavyweight matches were necessary, but he was of the opinion that such fights merely attracted a public who knew little of the finer points ©f the . art t£ boxing.