HEENEY HAS TO WAIT CHANCE

NZ Truth, Issue 1147, 24 November 1927, Page 14

HEENEY HAS TO WAIT CHANCE

II ' • \ • .: ~ — *- ' ■ • ■ --ll 1| EVERYTHING comes to he who waits, and now Tom || If v Heeney has to wait till the New Year for his big chance. || jf • Had everything" gone along to schedule, by this time |§ ig Tom Heeney would either be sitting pretty--or thinking of |j || what might haye been. 1| |f For on Friday last he was due to meet Jack Sharkey m jl || New York. \ If || Some accident to Sharkey— the result of which was an || || injured hand—brought about a postponement of the bout. || || Now it has been set down for January 13. || If It is indeed bad luck to hear of Sharkey's misfortune, || If but Heeney can claim just as much sympathy. f j || After training diligently for the contest and reaching [I || top of his form, he has to lay off and then start the work || || all over again. • fj || Such set-backs are not good for a boxer's . peace of |[ |I mind, but it is m Heeney 's favor that he is not of the ter- j| | J peramental type. |f [I He will refuse to allow the postponement to upset him || |j and will look forward to the day with greater expectation || ]| than ever. §1 i.*miiiiunminiiiuiiiiMiii>>nnniiinunn>ii<<<M»iiiiiinnii|MiiuniiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiMiiMiiuHimiiiiiii|iMiiiHi»iiiiiiii»iii» "uiiiiiMjllfliMWmii'UHHHnwiii^^