Title-holder Takes The Arena

NZ Truth, Issue 1261, 30 January 1930, Page 13

Title -holder Takes The Arena

/"|N Thursday night of this week at Hastings, Artie Hay is going to V do his best to show /Ted Morgan that he — Ted — is an impudent laddie m asking that the welter title be at stake for the contest. Hay, like Morgan; won his spurs as an amateur, but he has been fighting as a professional for some years now and is just about eligible to be known as an old-timer— pugilistioally. , ; There has been a decided feeling that Hay, to . make ten stone seven,, could not possibly come m and fight strongly, but each time "Truth" mentioned this possibility to Artie he ridiculed the idea. Just before going to press a report is to hand that Hay is going to be a very strong young fellow. As ex-world's amateur welter champion, Morgan is to be respected, and Hay, though he is confident, is by no means over-confident. Ted has gone through a good preparation and has. been punching harder than- ever, and if he starts .landing into the midrsection of brother Hay there is going to be trouble— and not for Morgan. Indications are for a big house, and it is hoped that they will be realised, as the association can do with the money. . iMimuiiniiiiiimmiiMmmHmiimiiiHimiiminiiiiiiiiiinmiiHiiiiiiniiniiiiiMiiiiiiminniiiiw