AMERICAN BOXERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 10

AMERICAN BOXERS

“CROSS-BREEDS ARE TIGERS” Paul Dempsky, the Queensland boxer, arrived in Wellington last, week on his way back from the United States, where he has been for the past year or so. In conversation with a representative of tile "New Zealand Sportsman,” Dempsky said that we in the Antipodes have no conception of the calibre of American, glcve-men. The Australian who will be back in the Dominion in November, all going well, stated that Australian boxers—the majority of them—are merelysparring partners to second-raters over the-other side. “Gee!” said Paul, eves s-nrlciing and gesticulating wildly, “you don't know how they box. They arc a combination of the boxor-figrhter. and the cross-breeds are tigera You take a mixture of American Jew', Italian, and Irish, and I’ll guess you'll think it’s an armour-plat 2d tank that hits you.” Dempsky had nine fights in America, winning two, losing four, and drawing two. Most of the time he was far from well, he says, owint to catching malaria fever n the Philippines just before he went to America