TOM HEENEY SLIPS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 8

TOM HEENEY SLIPS.

OUTCLASSED BY MALONEY. SAX FRANCISCO, Xlsirtli 4. A startling upset in tlie struggle for tlie much-coveted heavy weight chum pimiship of tlie world of fistiiinn, made vacant by the retirement of Gene Tunnoy, occurred at Boston when .Jimmy Maloney, the South Boston fishmonger, obtained the decision over Tom Mooney, erstwhile 11 Hard Bock from Down Under,” in a one-sided ten round bout and thus became the contender for heavyweight titular bon ours, who must be reckoned witli such luminaries as .Jack Sharkey, Max Sohmoling, the Gorman, and Paolino F/.edun.

Maloney up to a year ago was virtually an unknown in the boxing field, when lie was considered a “pushover” for heavyweights frying to work their way up to a battle with Gene Tunney, then world’s champion. It was by knocking out Maloney in less than one round that lleoney got the litle figiil on the strength of the achievement. The meeting of Maloney and the Xew Zealander attracted a gathering oi over 20.(100, the Hub’s biggest indoor assemblage of fistic enthusiasts in Boston. It. was a biller pill lor lleoney to swallow, and the defeat of the Now Zealander was regarded as incredible uulil it was confirmed officially. Commenting on the defeat'ol Mooney, .Jack Farrell, one of the leading sport writers, in a dispatch from the ringside, wrote: “As for Mooney, this crushing defeat—and it was all that - doubtless relegates him definitely to the class of has-beens. Me proved that T'-nnev took everything out of him but his stout heart. The rejuvenated fishmonger outhoxod and outfought, him in eight ol the ten rounds, lie staggered him time and again with viciousrights to the jaw and haltered his faceto a pulp with stinging left jabs.

MALONEY A DIFFERENT MAN. •‘Tlie cringing, chicken hearted, fearstricken Maloney of a year ago was C'-nspieious by his absence. Tn his place was a light-footed, fast-punching, confident hoxer and fighter, who took all kinds of desperate chances and stood up manfully when the going got lough. Maloney’s transformation was little short of complete. “lleoney fought like a man who had had a premonition that the jig "as up at the. start. By contrast Maloney fought a cool, calculating light. He took no unnecessary chances for the first four rounds, l>e J when he realised that lleeney was unable to hurt him lie and hosted him at every method of fighting the Angae adopted.

“Lleeney made a rushing fight of it. lie pressed Maloney hack' to the rope* whenever he got tlie chance, hut eacn Lime Alnloncy either side-stepped or fought himself free with n well-timed impressive two-lmnded conn ter-aLlack Maloney made a mess of Mooney’s face with straight lofts. Tom tried des ueralely to get away from it, hut the harder he tried the more effectively it worked. When the New Zealander discovered he could not perfect a. defence for Jim’s fact-working loft, he dodged ami bobbed, only Lo run into shoe right uppercuts, which nearly tore his head off. “The Maloney who showed in Boston to-night, will lie a tough man for Die olliers questing Tummy's crown t. beat.” Other ringside experts gave five rounds to Maloney, two to lleeney. and the remaining three even.