CALM REFEREE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 7

CALM REFEREE

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Stuck to His Guns in *• Wembley Uproar STRICKLAND AND NEUSEL

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I LONDON, Oct. 23. It is possible that. Maurice Strickland and Walter Neusel may meet again in a return bout of 15 rounds instead of twelve. The offer has been tnade by Mr Paul Damski, the Ger* man's manager. Mr Bill Daly, the New Zealand's manager, has replied that, although Strickland would liko to meet Neusel again, he wants to fight Farr first. Neusel left- for Amsterdam xecontly to negotiate & match in Berliu with Max Bchmeling. It seema unlikely, at the moment, that Strickland 's hope of meeting Farr trill be fulfilled. The Welshman has named a prohibitive figure of £10,000 for a fight with Len Harvey, the Wembley matchmaker. "In all the turmoil which followed the big fight at Wembley. I had to admire Jack Smith, veteran referee," says a writer in the Daily Mail. "An old campaigner, I doubt whether anyfching can shake him now after observing his reactions to the crowd's demoaetration against his decision for Neusel. "With every other person informing his neighbour that Strickland had won 'by a street,' Jack Smith comes down the ring steps, lights a cigarette, and 'fixes' angry accusers with a cold eye. The only thing apparently that; would have disturbed him was a bomb under the ring. "He did not care tuppence what • people thought, He had given his opinion, and was stieking to it liko the hard-headed Lancashireman he is. Personally, I did not agree with his opinion, but I respected it, for Jack Smith has been in the game for 40 years, and has won for himself a big reputation as a fearless, impartial and knowledgable judge. I thought he made a mistake on Tuesday . 4 b * but don't we all? "Strickfand need not feel discouraged, He made good in the fight, aua from now on will be featured as a top-line performer. One thing I thinli the fight made plain was that Strick* land's punph is not so hard as we supposed. He hit his opponent enough times on the chin to have broken it if the force had been there, but so far as could be observed Neusel was never in, danger of taking the count."-