New Zealander Pleases Sydney Boxing Fans

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 11

New Zealander Pleases Sydney Boxing Fans

“Lacliie ” McDonald Was Unlucky Against Harms A “CROWD-PLEASER" Jim Donald, the well known boxing scribe in “Smith’s Weekly,” writes entertainingly -of Lachie McDonald’s debut in the ring at Sydney Stadium against the American, Harms. Like a number of other critics, Donald thinks McDonald won. He says:— McDonald was an unknown glove quantity, so far as Australia is concerned. New Zealanders, exiled for their sins in our notorious midst, informed me that “Lachie” was “hot stuff”—warmer, in fact, than the charges at Rotorua, tougher than a lirewalker’s feet, faster than Gloaming, game enough to speak disrespectfully of Bobbie Burns in Invercargill, and the owner of a wallop calculated to send a man to sleep quicker than a Zane Grey fishing yarn. NOSE-BLOWING ARTIST It sounded interesting. Harms I knew to be a game, tough fellow, with a dangerous right hand. Though hardly measuring up to the high estimate of liis friends and fuglemen, “Lachie” showed himself in the light of a waspish, aggressive, fast-hitting gloveman, ever ready to stand in and trade wallops with his heavier-metalled opponent, and furthermore a nose-blow-ing scientist of the highest class. He is the only man that I have ever known capable of blowing his own nose and punching the other fellow’s at one and the same time. Had “Lachie” possessed even a moderately powerful punch, he would most certainly have knocked his man out of time. As it was, he slamwhanged all over him from every angle of the compass, and so far as my own opinion is concerned, had piled up sufficient points to entitle him to the verdict when the final bell tolled. Joe Wallis, however, declared it a draw, and the crowd evidently agreed with his summing up. As a fight, it was hard, rough, and honest. Nothing spectacular, but tough sledding all the way. McDonald is a welcome addition to the ranks of our middleweights. He is a crowd-pleaser. Could he and his