BAD BOY VAN REEDEN

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 17

BAD BOY VAN REEDEN

Tries To Run A "Slippery" In Melbourne

When the wrestlers finished up m Melbourne they had succeeded m: making 1 a very high aroma, — one> that was more dinkum than delicious.

TO the sporting Press, and the tator, alike, . there was too much

hiding m the first bout, the money would of course be all for van Reeden.

funny business;; too. much showmanship and not enough genuine wrestling. ' '

The return of . boxing .to the Spencer Street Stadium was await- ■ - ed with pleasure.

But the glove slingers. no sooner got going- on Saturday nights than there was another cry.- of- stinking; fish. ; ""' Charlie van Reeden was. set down to meet JKid Socks,

The referee-n-it is taken for granted Val. Quirk '.still is .m charge — was forced to hold his nose, while he kicked the pair ;,out of the ring— it was "no contest" so he decreed. .-.."'■

The upshot of this is that van Reeden gets socks. and no kid about it. ■'■; In an affidavit he says he agreed to get out of the contest with flveround3 covered, and' what" he lost m doing sso was to be made up- by "a gentleman who was going: to "plaster", Socks! ' -.'.'■ It being .the second meeting of the pair, and, bearing jn hiind that Socks had taken a full-sized stocking of a

Thus the "gentleman" who was to share with van Reeden would find little difficulty m being accommodated. . :- , ■

It is impossible to proclaim the "slippery" as clever, for it, was anything but that — it was a most clumsy affair. ,'.'-.

Van Reeden, with something like fifty successes ,on end, and one of the best boys that has been imported to Australia m recent times, was a lunatic to become mixed up m such a transaction.

This black smudge on his record will never be erased.' >■ New Zealand is' m the fortunate position to be almost entirely free of shady fights. Our control ' of the sport, is far superior to that of Australia.

• Associations are comprised of men' of' inte'gMty," men who would not for one -moment tolerate any funny business. • ' . • s

.Here, it is a sport — m Australia it is a commercial proposition. ■