THE BOXING RING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 12

THE BOXING RING

Notes From Far and Near

By

“LEFT COUNTER’'

The next New Zealand AmateuT , ’hampionships are to be held in Auckland. A Navy boxing: tournament is to be held in No. 9 shed on Central Wharf on Friday evening - . Aucklander Jim Broadfoot meets Nelson McKnight at Hamilton next Monday night. The purses for fights in the future will be limited to £l5O. except in special circumstances, and then only with the concurrence of the New Zealand Association. Percy Black, who fought Matt Hatton last night, is to meet Mark Carroll at Te Aroha on September 5. The purse will be on a house percentage Two representatives of the New Zealand Amateur Union will attend the annual conference of representatives •>f the State Unions, held concurrently with the Australian amateur championships. A move has been made by Tom McCarney, manager of Phil. Krug, to send Benny Valgar, crack American light-weight, and Jack McVey, coloured American welter-weight, to Australia.

The winners in the King’s College boxing championships were:—Paperweight, Darling; fly-weight, Griffiths; bantam, Macindoe, I; light, Sim, II; welter, Calvert; middle. V. Tisdall; heavy, P. Clarkson. New Zealand is not to be represented at the Australian championships on September 27 and 29. The New Zealand Association offered to send a team, but in view of its relations with the New Zealand Amateur Union, the Australian union refused the offer. * * * However successful Tex Rickard and Humbert Fugazy are from a financial point of view as to their fight-pjaomot-ing proclivities, Chicago promoters are hot able to fall in tune with them. The Windy City gentlemen who work to get the ring battles under way report a decided shortage, in fact a decided loss, when it comes to squaring accounts with themselves. Frank Taylor, the Auckland bantamweight boxer, is seeking fights. •He is willing to meet any boy, weighing up to Bst. 61b. in the Dominion. Taylor is well known to the boxing public as a fine boxer with a telling punch, and he should have no difficulty in obtaining matches. It was decided at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Association at Invercargill that before a licence la issued, a professional boxer must furnish the council with a certificate of competency, issued by the association in the town where he is a resident. Jack Delaney may be matched with Jack Sharkey as a preliminary to the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Delaney is the most picturesque fighter in the ring to-day according to American writers, and if he can increase his weight and not diminish his speed, he should be the next heavy-weight champion. Jack O’Sullivan, who carried off the belt for the most scientific boxer at the New Zealand championships this year, Jias had an interesting and successful career. In 1923 he won the Auckland and New Zealand fly-weight titles, in 1924 won the Auckland bantam title, was runner-up to Taylor in the Auckland championships in 1925, and in 1926 did not compete. Another old-timer is making a comeback. The latest is Willie Ritchie, who in 1912 won the light-weight championship of the -world, and in 1914 lost it to the late Freddie Welsh. His opinion that present day boxers are very poor stuff is the reason for the 36-year-old again entering the ring. He intends starting at the bottom and working his way up. He made his reappearance against one, Comiskey, and won by a knock-out in the fourth round. % Jack Dempsey’s Los Angeles friends and admirers, 50,000, when they welcomed him home after his battle with Sharkey, accomplished something that Jack Sharkey and all other heavyweights Dempsey has ever faced, were unable to do! They made him

cry! Dempsey did not break down and shed large crocodile tears or anything like that, but there were a couple of man-sized ones in his eyes and his voice shook with emotion as he replied to Chairman James Woods’s welcoming speech in the crowded lobby of the Biltmore Hotel. Never was a conquering hero accorded a greater reception than Dempsey received.!

Mr. Eugene Corri writes: —“I wish that every able-bodied man in England was taught and encouraged to box. That there would be less crime,