SOME KID

NZ Truth, Issue 1207, 17 January 1929, Page 8

SOME KID

Johnson, Hard Hitter mD JOHNSON, the Filipino lad, > who understands no more of the Australian lingo than to say "Happy New Year," showed onlookers that he was of the right fighting variety when he gave Victorian Norm. Gillespie a father of a. hiding. OB was only warming up to his work when the police ordered a cessation of hostilities half way through the second round. / There is not an over-abundance of science about the featherweight crack of the Orient, but that loss is more than compensated for by his perpetual motion style of attack. He showed himself to be a regular little tiger, full of vim, rushing intoxhis man with cyclonic left and right swings and hooks and jabs of vicious nature. Whichever way the Victorian moved, wherever he ducked, the flying fists of the Filipino kid barred his way. Gillespie was down, three times m the first minute of the second round, and though he struggled to his feet each time .he was plainly worn and beaten. The Filipino earned some displeasure by reason^ of his vicious tactics, but m adopting "all-in" methods he was fighting as he had been used to. • Under any conditions it was plajn that he was Gillespie's master m the ring.

Leckie's Fights pROM Dunedin comes word that be- *" fore his • Mat. Hatton match m Auckland on February 25, Johnny Leckie will squeeze m an appointment with the Wanganui Boxing Association for a purse of £100 and expenses on February 14. The occupier of the other corner had not been announced at time of writing. ' Anything Hatton can hand out to Johnny, by the way, will be added as excess baggage to the Dunedinite's Australian traps — he's killing two birds with the one railway-ticket and making Auckland his hopping- off place for his search for Aussie laurels. Purdy 's Next Opponent PHARLEY PURDY'S star has not ,set yet. He is m steady training at Dunleavy's, Sydney. Charles is sure of another match shortly and the talk on the other side is that the victor of the Sparr-^Fairhall bout should be the New Zealanders next opponent.