RING RECORDS A LIKELY HEAVY

NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 12

RING RECORDS

A LIKELY HEAVY

Young Varidel Fights Well Against Bates

AUSTRALIA'S NEW HOPE

There is a feeling m Sydney that after Stan.. Varidel's display against Bill Bates at Leichhardt Stadium recently, a new h«avy- weight champion m the making has been discovered.

HTHOUGH Varidel was outpointed 1 over 15 rounds by the more exr perienced Bates, the 20-year-old Australian rose manfully to the occasion when it came to keeping on his feet against the more crafty Englishman. It proved a great bout, and was the best staged m Sydney for many a long day. • The fans yelled themselves hoarse throughout, and had they known that Varidel lost the use of his left thumb •m the third round, when he sent Bates to the floor, the rafters would have been m danger (says the Sydney "Spoilsman"). The belief m some quarters prior to the contest that Varidel could not take punishment was well and truly disproved. No man could have taken such a

No man could have taken such a

gruelling more gamely than th c Aussie youngster. Stan, is 6ft. lin. tall, has a reach of 81in. and first figured as an amateur.

In 1927 he was runner-up for the State amateur championship and also runner-up m the Newtown tourney. The next year he took the State amateur honors, and then turned pro., winning six fights by the short cut route, and his defeat by Bates was the first suffered since turning pro. It angered him to find he was up against a superior boxer m Bates. The fact that Bates was none too clean m his tactics was not relished by Stan., and once when the Englishman offered to shake hands, Varidel knocked Rates's hands up and started to swing at the Englishman's head. The young Australian is certainly only a novice yet m the real game, and has. still to learn' that sportsmanship is a. great asset, also that the crowd loves a sport, b*ut detests a boor. '

Sportsmanship Asset

Bates was continually cautioned for hanging on to the ropes with one hand and hitting with the .other. He seemed clearly not trying to flout the referee, but simply did it from ihabit. i The crowd noisily objected, but appeared fascinated by the ring tricks brought into play by the Englishman. He showed fans more ring stratagem than any boxer has been able to display at Lelchhardt. • ; Varidel realized he had no mug to contend with, and was not so cocksure of himself as m previous bouts. Stan, got a beauty from Bates m the second and slid to the boards, but was up at the count of three. • It was with a left that Stan, floored his opponent m the third, and the bell appeared to save Bates.

Varide 1 gave Bates a , hiding iE the fourth, but m the fifth the latter had Varidel down for eight, the gong saving the youth.

[ It was fast and furious till the eighth round, when Bates again dropped Varidel for. eight. I In the twelfth . Varidel was bumped through the ropes, and near the finish of the fifteenth the Australian was groggy, and Bates dropped him with a heavy right. Bates" was declared the winner. Varidel, half-dazed, . rose and went after Bates, but his seconds pulled him to his corner. Bates was plainly too good, and will draw good houses against any good heavy. However, it is to the younger man that fans will look* to the future. , " He is certainly game and should develop into a first-class heavy-weight, one worthy to represent Australia m any part of the world at the fistic business. He looks the goods m the making.