Pugent Pars

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 8

Pugent Pars

WHO WANTS IT? WITH Charlie Purdy out of the country and Lea Murray retired, the lightweight title is floating in mid-air. At the present time there is no ninenine boy worthy of the emblem, but with the state of affairs prevailing It would cause no surprise to hear of a number of amateurs turning 1 over. Then an elimination tourney could be staged. * # # WHERE IS HE? CINCE he lost to "Honey Boy" Fin- & negan, nothing further has been heard of Bill Grime. No doubt he is finding it difficult to get remunerative matches after dropping his first decision In the East, and it would not be surprising to hear of him bobbing up In England. • • # MONEY TALKS PIGURES talk at all times, and despite r< the literary- inclined Gene Tunney'e objections, the tremendous money made by all concerned in the recent heavyweight championship at Chicago has received world-wide publicity. The attendance was said to be 149,000. The takings amounted to approximately £640,000. Tunney received £220,000; Dempaey £90,000. The American Federal taxation people took £50,000, and the State authorities almost as much. # . # # RETIRES ANCE again Hughie Dwyer has sign?---v ned his intention of retiring from the game. Hughie, who was holding the welter and middleweight titles, has a tobacconist business and he is going to devote his time to this. # # # COME HOME ACCORDING to reports from the " other side the Stadiums have cabled to Billy Grime to come 'home. It is just possible that Grime will listen to the call to come home. * * • OLD FRIENDS TWO boxers well-known in New Zealand met in combat in Sydney the other evening. They were Tommy Fairhall and long-distance dancer Billy Preston, who could do nothing right when he was over here. Fairhall, after hotly' pursuing his man for seven rounds, caught him and knocked him out.