SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 6

SUNDRY SPORTS.

BOXING. OWEN MORAN RETIRES. The San Francisco correspondent of tho Sydney Daily Telegraph writes under date April 7 as follows; A letter has been received at San Francisco from Birmingham, England, conveying the lamentable intelligence that Owen Moran, the well-known lightweight boxer of England, has now the hardest light of his career. After his recent tour i' l Australia, Moran unexpectedly appeared at San Francisco, and there was given an adverse decision for alleged fouling of Joe A/.evedo, of Oakland and ’Sacramento, when the Birmingham lightweight had everything to his advantage. Moran was then at the lowest weight possible. Tie went East, and met Woigast, the conditions of the match occasioning the Englishman the severest trial of his career since meeting Abe Attell, a few years since at San Francisco. Moran had to give Several pounds to his opponent, and was in such a weakened state when he entered the ring that Woigast gave him a severe doing. Mbran hurried to Eitglahd after that.’ To a sporting friend in San Francisco, a letter' states that the popular lightweight has been seized with tuberculosis, and he is how making a veritable light for his life. It is positive that he will never enter the ring again ‘as a pugilist. Quitb a cloud of gloom came over Californian sporting circles when the unwelcome news became known, for Moran, liked California, and fought some of liis finest battles in and arouhd San Francisco. It was there that he twice fought the invincible Featherweight champion, Abe Attell to a standstill, although laboring agaihst tremendous odds in making weight. Moran earned the esteem of all the leading boxing critics in America. He was one of the old school of boxers, and his passing from the ’ring 'is deeply regretted On all hands. Moran is a wealthy man, and owns a large number/of substantial houses in and around Birmingham. The houses are severally Earned after his opponents ; in fact, each fight generally resulted in Moran erecting another house or two in the Midland metropolis. .