THE BOXING RING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 172, 11 October 1927, Page 11

THE BOXING RING

Notes From Far and Near

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“LEFT COUNTER"

Lachie McDonald is under the management of Pat Connors in Sydney..

Speculators at the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago sold ringside tickets at £SO.

When Tom Heeney knocked out Maloney he defeated a man who ranked as the fourth best heavy-weight in the world.

Though nothing definite has been arranged there is a prospect of a bout between Jimmy Carr and Tommy Griffiths on the West Coast on October 15.

Al. McDonald, the recently-arrived welter-weight, from Australia, is training at Mick Facoory’s gymnasium, Union Street. He hopes to obtain a match either in Auckland or in the South in the near future.

As he is not allowed to box, Joe Hall has joined a show troupe. He will sing and dance the black-bottom. After sparring in Wellington with Cleverley and Morgan, the prospective Olympic Games candidates. Hall said that both boys were champions in their class. He considers Morgan the best south pa v/ with whom he has had the gloves on.

After the fight between Tommy Griffiths and Johnny Leckie- the Otago Association will have staged more contests, amateur and professional, this year than any other association in the Dominion. It is impossible to fix a definite date for the title bout, but it is hoped that the champion will be able to fight about the end of the month.

Genuine regret will be expressed at the news that Bobby Fulcher, one of the most capable and most popular boxers in Dunedin, has decided to retire from the game, states “Cross Counter” in the Otago “Daily Times.” He had made numerous appearances in the ring, and could always be relied upon to give an attractive display of clean and clever boxing. Fulcher, who made his first appearance in the ring in 1922, has taken part in a. large number of tournaments, both championship and otherwise, and has annnexed more than an average share of honours. He has held the Otago amateur light-weight championship on two or three occasions, and in 1922 he annexed the Southland championship in his class, while in 1923 he gained the title for the South Island. His best, performance at a New Zealand tournament was probably recorded in 1925, when he secured the position of run-ner-up.. He is the present holder of the Otago light-weight championship.

Johnny Leckie, feather-weight champion of New Zealand, has received an offer to fight at the Sydney Stadium. The newly-appointed manager of Stadiums, Ltd., Sydney, is Mr. H. Sunderland, who two seasons ago toured the Dominion with the Queensland League football team.

Old Bob Fitzsimmons was the gamest fighter who ever lived. It is said that when he broke his hands he would twiddle his thumbs during the spell between rounds, to conceal the -injury and the instant the bell rang he would rush out and hit with his broken hands. He never recognised pain, distress or the possibility of defeat.

That negotiations lor a bout between Joe Dundee, welter-weight champion, and “Ace” Hudkins have been partially completed has been announced by Clyde Hudkins, brother and manager of the latter. He stated that he had received from the promoter, Herbert Fugazy, of New York, stating that Dundee was partially lined up to fight Hudkins in New York in October. Dundee has raised his guarantee from 40,000 dollars to 100,000 dollars, according to Hudkins. * * * Now that Fidel La Barba, the speedy young Californian, has abdicated the throne as fly-weight champion of the world in order to attend college, boxing is without recognised world cnampions in three divisions, all the lighter ones—fly-weight, bantam-weight, and feather-weight, states an American paper. This situation recently brought some rather caustic comment from Tex Rickard, the New York fight promoter. “These little fellows all seem to be afraid of each other,” said Tex. “They have definite lists of those they will fight and those they win not fight. Most of them believe they are champions, and yet: in three classes, flyweight, bantam and feather-weight, none of them stands out as a real champion should.” The efforts of the New York Commission during the last year to clear up the feather-weight and bantam-weight divisions have brought forth no outstanding lighters. So far as New York is concerned the winner of the Tony Canzoneri—“Red” Chapman contest at Ebbets Field last month will probably be awarded the featherweight title, but it is doubtful if the action will be sanctioned in all th€s other States which have legalised boxing. Canzoneri twice tried to win the bantam-weight title in bouts with “Bud” Taylor in Chicago. The first bout was a draw and Canzoneri was defeated in the second bout. Illinois now recognising Taylor as the champion.