ON FOR EVER

NZ Truth, Issue 1302, 27 November 1930, Page 15

ON FOR EVER

Fairhall Drops In ■ ■■„,' Again HAS NOT CHANGED ,[T has .been penned, that men -may ■*• come and men may go, and that is correct but-] with this qualification— Tommy : Fairhall . has" it heavy on the brook. - A • .y : "y ■ ... : The welter champion of Australia dropped off the Sydney boat this week and when he came' into "Truth" he looked years younger than when we last saw him two years agoA „ This, his fourth trip to. New Zealand, makes him out td be a veteran, but he is old only

m boxing experi-. ence. As a matof fact, Tommy, last Tues da y, celebrated . his twenty - ninth birthday. • Fairhall has come over to meet Ted Morgan at Wellington on December 9, and then he will be ready to take on anything offering. "We reminded him that Ted was

a southpaw and Tom laughed. "I have not met a side- wheeler since I fought Uren here." We A remember that night. The boxing business is pretty dead over the water Tom admitted, but it was picking up, and he thought that next year it would be back to normal. He mentioned friend Harry Stone, who has charge of Russ Critcher, the lad who "beat Tommy a few weeks back. ' . ' • That Fairhall' looks after himself pretty well' is shown by the fact that when asked what his weight was he replied m the vicinity of 9.13. For the last seven years he has been round about that figure, and being just too heavy for the light division he has had to go out and give weight to welters. Tom says he will be m the best^ by the night of the bout, and he. thinks he knows how to handle southpaws. We hope that he has learned something m that direction.