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NZ Truth, Issue 128, 30 November 1907, Page 3

Pug Bob, Turner has announced that he has turned up the game, and accordingly the match with Bob Byrant m Sydney is off. . Bob, still young m years, is practical!- a veteran, and was the hardest tnan m his class m Australia to beat.

New Zealander Jack Griffin is seeking scalps m. Australia. He ismatclied to fight Bert Smith on Decem--I>er 7, and proposes to take on Bob

jßyrant a fortnight later. ! Hock Keys added another scalp to ibis, belt the other day m Melbourne, ' when he got a verdict over Hugtoe Meeghan after 20 rounds had been negotiated. The pair put up a rattt ling mill, and Hock, after it was over, said lie had to go all he knew to win. Hock's upp emitting, it seems, won him the fight, as every time he administered it, Meeffhan's. face stopped it. There was some talk of one o! the Associations making • a match between Elliott, who won the featherW'eright championstiip at the last competition, with Tommy Hanley. Rumor had it also that arrangements had been entered into for a match between Tresize, of AshMrton and the Sydneyite. However, it all seems to have been talk.

Tresize, it is said,< is coming to settle m Wellington, and will represent this city m the featherweight competitions.

When the Australian amateurs were [over some months back, Scanlan, the middleweight representative ' from Queensljand, was marked down as a hard nut to crack. In fact, he got the championship medal, because none would stand up to him, Brds'.bane "-Truth" last issue gives a particplarly gory account of Scanjlan, who recently fought one Cameron for the middleweight championship of Queensland.- The writer of the" account doubts whether Scanlan can be classed a' scientific boxer, but reckoned , he. ' would do as a pub chucker-but. pair m the scrap came together like wild beasts, sLiid the referee's call to break was drowned by the wild order that en- ; sued, and even when he tried to part them he had to dodge their blows. The account of the go is concluded thus: '''Coming out of the melee, (Cameron went down on his knees— a [done man. He arose at eight seconds, and a mighty swing of ScanJan's sent him ( down again. He again got on his feet,- but all he was able [to do was to put up his hands and stop Ms .opponent's right crasher with his jaw. He went down again, |and once more rose, which showed that he had pluck, if nothing else. Again down and up, and as Scanlan was standing over him the end was prompt. That ended the rough and tumble, and what * looked like a dead man was carried to his corner. It may have all been perfectly fair, according to < amateur rules, hut if. a pair of untutored drunks essayed the same tactics before a crowd of na\> vies, these would kick .. the stuffing out of the two bounders."