GAME BOY IS MORGAN

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 10

GAME BOY IS MORGAN

With Only One Hand He Whips The Universe

The little old world is just beginning to wake up to the fact that New Zealander? are tough guys.

ONLY three week* back Tom Heeney thrilled the universe by p.uttlng up suoh a magnificent battle with Gene Tunney. , In his hour of defeat he was more popular than the champion. The man that keeps on under difficulties will always be hero. Heeney fought the great fight and lost. But now he 1b dethroned. For at Amsterdam last week, our Olympic candidate, Ted Morgan, with splendid- courage, surmounted a tremendous handicap and came out the winner — the first New Zealander to win an Olympio title. Dislocating a knuckle on his left hand In training operations,. Morgan went Into the ring to do, and die if need be, and die game, too! With his main asset taken away

from him, Morgan was set a heroulean task, but -they breed 'em game In this country and the boy went from suooeas to sucoess. Those who know Morgan and that deadly left rip of his oan visualize the . handicap he was un,d.er. He was practically a one-handed fighter — yet he succeeded. It was a caae of the will to win; the determination to carry on at all oosts that brought Morgan through. It was not Ted Morgan lje was thinking of — it was New Zealand. And New Zealand is proud of Morgan. And none more proud than. Tim Tracy, who taught him his game, and Earl Stewart, who, „ having put him through the acid test, said he was the boy. ' Congratulations, Ted, lad!