LECKIE AND HIS PLANS

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 10

LECKIE AND HIS PLANS

When Well, He May Cross To The Other Side Johnnie Leckie is at present awaiting 1 the day for his return to active ring 1 work.

TILL/ after the holidays are over 1 Johnnie is going to Bpell. Then if the word comes that hiß hand is right again he will get down into solid work. That there will be contests for him m New Zealand goes without saying. But it is just possible that he may give some of them the go-by. There are bigger fish to catch. Within the near future there is going to be: an influx of celebrities to Sydney and Melbourne, and with Fidel la Barba, Vie. King, Willie Smith and Billy Grime there will be big money to be won. This overseas invasion may be enough to attract Johnnie to the other side. A representative of his has been In touch with Stadiums Ltd., and it is now given out that satisfactory terms

have been offered the Dunedin boy. Three fights are offered to Leckie, with a guarantee, and "when he lives 115 to his reputation^-aa he assuredly will — there is no reason why he should not keep going. . The throe offered can be turned into half-a-dozen, or morot Leckie would be -well advised to take the offer, and no doubt he will. The experience he would . gain as a result of meeting champions like la Barba and company would be tremendous. America still has its lure for Johnnie, but. he would be .even so much more better fitted for that pilgrimage were he to take on Sydney arid Melbourne first. . • The money he would earn on that trip would be, if nothing else, useful to help out m the initial stages of the American trip.