PUG PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 804, 9 April 1921, Page 8

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Les Murray reckons that as Denny Murphy, the present holder of the welter title, is disqualified, the mantle must fall on Murray. To prove that he is the right man for the honor, he is willing to fight any one m the country for the title.

W. F. Corbett m the "Referee" says: "It might interest those who.s aw Dencio at work on .Saturday night last to know that Harry' Holmes defeated him on points at Manila. Perhaps f should put it that the referee declared the contest a draw, but the Manila papers contended that Holmes ought to have had the verdict. They were not likely 'to go against the Filipino unless they considered doing so the right attitude. What Holmes's skill defeated, or at least stood off when he met Dencio, eight or nine thousand ljeople saw for themselves last Saturday night. Holmes was, on that showing, and no doubt is still, cleverer than Criqui. My reasoning is on the basis that Holmes' skill saved him the severe punishment which Criqui had to endure. I have always contended that Holmes possessed unusual cleverness. I tabbed him a promising boy when he showed first at Stadium matinees years ago. The pity of it is that he does not carry an. effective wallop. But there are others no better off than he is m this I'espect and short of the same degree of science who manage to get engagements without having to got as far away from home at New Zealand." Two professional fights will be staged at Hastings on Cup night. The first will be between The Terrible Turk and A. Mussen, of Christchurch, and the big item will be Mick Rutherford and Hughie Dwyer, Thanks to the success of the PalmerCadman contest, the Whangarei Associa.tioh is now well' in credit, ahd at the annual meeting next month Secretary E. P. Ramsey wiH be able to unfold a prett3 r tale to the members. As mentioned last week, the decision m the Palmer-Cadman contest at Whangarei did not meet with universal approval. In an interview with a press representative, Mr. Tim Tracy, referee, m view of the general disapproval, "of his decision that the fight was a draw gave reasons why he arrived at this. He said as referee he had to abide- by the New Zealand rules. These distinctly stated that all blows to count, as points must be delivered to tlie front of the body with the padded part of the gloves. Palmer'^- body lilows and overhead jabs to the neck and head did not count, .although weakening to his Opponent. Neither did his clipping to the face, because they were delivered with the open glove. He conceded that Palmer was streets ahead of Cadman, and had the fight taken place m Australia, he would have got the verdict. Had he (Mr. Tracy) been present m a private capacity instead of as official referee his personal opinion would have been that ' Palmer should have got the verdict, but he had to abide by the rules, which badly hee-led revising. In footwork Cadman excelled when on the defensive. Two-thirds of Palmer's blows were wasted, because they did not count as points.

The Otago Boxing Association was to beet on Monday last to consider an ofl'in" by Herb. McCoy' to box Les Murray. McCoy 1« making a tour of the country and Is willing to fight every fortnight. He bars no one that is within a reasonable weight, and would especially like Harry. Holmes. McCoy has fought 10S contests and hart decisions over Tommy Uren, t' Harry Stone, Matt Wells, Hughle Meaghan, lilew. Edwards and others. He is only remaining three months and will then go back to Sydney to try and wrest the light-weight title off L.ew. Edwards. He is being trained by .Tack Lewis, who is. also a decent light-weight. McCoy is also negotiating with tbe Auckland Association for a fight. Meantime he can be located at Dunedin. c/o Secretai-y Tl. Divers. The Australian heavy-weight. Jack Quinlan, is very anxious to come to New Zealand to fight Al Lloyd, and if such a match could be ari*anged lie will bet £50 or £100 on the result. > The ex-New Zealv-.id amateur champion, George Lane, is now running a boxing school at Redfern, Sydney. The.. Wellington Waterside Club is shortly putting on a tourney m the Town Hall m aid of the widow and orphans of the late * Mr. J. Boyes, who was drowned at the Hutt while attempting tot save the life of a young girl. Scotty McGregor, representative of the Waterside Athletic Club, has .inst returned from Westport. Scotty has . no- \ thing but admiration for the Westport fight fans, and it is quite on the cards that he will again be asked to appear before the fight fans at Westport. ■ The Hastings , mlddle-weight"\ "Eddie Parker, one of R. Jeff ares' cojts, has gone to Ashburton .where he hopes to get a match with H. North, who beat him last year. Parker was well liked m Hawke's Bay, where he made a lot of friends. The bantam champion, C. Maddox, has been ordered a rest and will be unable to fight at Hastings . this montti. The fight between Paul Hannah (Hastings), and A. Mussen' (Christchurch), to be held on Cup-night, will be a 10 rounds go. Mussen has two decisions over Hannah. The French wonder, Eugene Criqui, has sailed for France. It is reported that he will shortly marry a music hall artist, whom he met m Sydney. Macario "Villon, -who was supposed .to be the weak sport amongst the Filipinos, got a victory over Paul Demsky on Easter Monday, when the latter was disqualified for hitting low. At Melbourne on Easter Saturday, Bert Spargo stopped Joe Symonds m nine rounds, \

Jimmy dabby lias never been knocked out, his lew defeats having been on points only, and then on no occasion by a .very large margin. Kv'en that flghtihg machine, Les Darcy, could not stop him, though he well outpointed and severely punished him m their two contests. It appeared impossible to really out Jim dabby. Not only was he so amazingly clever m defence and cunning m crises, but he appeared to have a cast-iron Jaw and a solid' ivory head, to say nothing of a washingboard mid-section. The Brisbane Stadium* was pretty well "full on Saturday night to see Havllah Uren, the left-handed brother of the exwelter and middle champion, Tommy Uren, s meet Eugene Volaire, the sturdy and clever French light-weight. The battle was a hard one throughout, but Uren's heavy wallops so- disconcerted A'olaire that towards the end he was fighting practically all m and seemed m doubt as to whether it was a boxing match or a wrestling bout. The verdict for Uren was popular.— Sydney ' "Sportsman." Jimmy Clabby is billed to meet Billy Shade at the Sydney Stadium to-night. Wrestling novices will be pleased to 'learn that Tommy Walker is opening classes at Moray-place Gymnasium, Dunedin. Walker was light-weight amateur champion of Scotland for six years and wrestled a time limit bbut no fall being recorded) with Peter Gotz, light-weight champion of the world, m the Queen's Theatre, Glasgow. He beat Marcela Shancas, South America. Tommy McDennott, light-weight champion of Ireland. "Grappling" Smith, Manchester. Tiresini, Italy. Eric Bain, Scotland and W. Ferguson, Glasgow police champion. At ,the age of 18, he took on all comers at Coatbridge, Scotland, for 26 weeks without a defeat, and put up a similar performance at the World's Fair, Glasgow, m 1309, for over three months Since his arrival m New Zealand he has thrownMurdle Cameron, Martin Ford, A. L. Chisholm, W. Guy, A. Graham, Moana Paratena, J. Bullock, J. Gardner, Collins, Harry Sandow and the Japs, Shima ahd Kameda. He has a record of one defeat m well over 450 bouts. The Napier Association has been negotiating for a match at the end of the month between Frank O'Neill 'and Harry Holmes. : J. Keenan was m Wellington last week and was sounded by a prominent member of the local association re a fight with P. Hannah, of Hastings. Whac an absurd match, but there is little chance of Bob Jeffares letting "The Terrible Turk" clash with Keenan until the Hastings boy has had some mora experience. No wonder some of the Wellington -fights turn out fiascoes. Keenan and Hannah would be another "Digger" Evans-Teddy Uren farce. "A more suitable opponent for Hannah would be Lin Robinson.