INTO IT ONCE AGAIN

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 8

INTO IT ONCE AGAIN

Heeiiey Puts Petticoats Aside To Meet Sharkey

Tom Heeney has now decided, despite tlie fears of his wife that he might get hurt, to re-enter the ring, a decision all lovers of the game will hail with joy.

T ATEST cable advices from New. ]_4 York are to the effect v that Tom has been signed up by v Tex Rickard to meet jack Sharkey m .-February. The exact location of the bout has hot 'yet been disclosed. At present Heeney is down with the 'flu, but the attack is said not to be serious, and no doubt Heeney will' soon commence training m earnest. Heeney's rise to fistic fame was a sensational one, and his bulldog courage earned him the respect and admiration of the whole world pf sportsmen. It would have been a shame had Heeney allowed his wife's fears for his safety to have stopped his pugilistic career. Tom can quite "well look after himself, thank you! ( As a matter of fact, the New Zealanders rise to tbe position- of contender for world's championship honors some time ago was without parallel m boxing history. In his own country and m England,

Recognized . THE two boxers who went to' the * Olympic Games — Morgan and Cleverley — were loud m their praise of the care bestowed on them by Charlie Dickinson, who trained them. In Manager Amos' report Dickinson gets some kudos for his services, and the , mention is more than merited. Dickinson worked hard and the boys ha^ m him a "cobber."

Tom was never seriously considered, and when he went to ,Arherica he had a •■-.■■ totigh. job getting any sort of a fight. I :■■■.... . ; :, : ; ■- . BUt he gradually foiigfht ; himself into the limelight, and topped his forward ■'-.'■ march, by meeting Sharkey, supposedly the best, of the contenders for Gene^Tunney's scalp. A draw was the official call of that .match, but m the opinion of the critics the. rugged New Zealander, won cjearly. Tom was too strong, tough and game , for S.harkey, despite the latter's more skilful exhibition. 1 Heeney is not a spectacular boxer. He is a plugger, with a fine right uppercut, and is practically immune from punishment. The > Yanks called him the "Steel Man from Down Under." There . is . no., fear m: Tom's make-up, so his little wife'y should show herself a sportswoman, and lend him her moral support. Hurralr for Heeney I

Looked Well ; i ACH 1 E McDONALD passed through ■Wellington. last week on his way to Auckland, to meet Tommy Mclnnes. Lachie i looks as hard as nails and the callouses on his hands spoke for the hardi graft he had put m. .\ ■■■ >The eye has healed well, though a little disfiguring. There is, always, however, the big: risk of being- reopened. . ' "■•.'■■'■■■"•