Biff Briefs

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 10

Biff Briefs

Another • TOM SOUTER reports from Wanganui *• that he has under his care a Melbourne light-weight m Bobby Lewis. Lewis, who wants to fight any ninenine boy m the country, has, according to Souter, a pretty good record m preliminaries. # * * Candid X WRITER m a Buenos Aires paper -.- -thinks little of the"' chance of Luis Firpo making a come-back. He says: Firpo is back m the ring. That is to ■ say, the one-time great fighter is trying to slough off about, twenty kilos of tallerines- and mondongo. He may do it, but it'll slow him down so much that he'll fall over with the first punch. • Firpo has nothing more to do m the ring. He is too old- — champions are made around the 23-year-old mark. And years of easy living— he hasn't had a decent fight since he knocked Jack Dempsey out of the rmg — have lost him his wind, his punch, and his ability to come-back. Firpo should think of poor Jeffries. '•.• ';.'■..• ■;."■ - ! ' . • ■■■ ■ ■■ . •." • .• Next Big. One THE next big fight m the States is /that between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling: This is scheduled to take place at Miami Beach on February 27, and the winner will just about be the new champion. ' . • That is how America, is likely to treat the result.

r Next Champion A MERICAN writers have been touting ■ xv Young Stribling as the one to fill the shoes left vacant by Gene Tunney. Stribling is twenty-four years of age and, when fighting m the lightheavy division, had a string of knockouts as long as his arm. He started off well last week by winning the first of the elimination series when he got rid of Ralph Smith m three rounds. The cables say the crowd were greatly • impressed with the hammering Stribling . gave Smith. It is evident that Smith was also impressed! >

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