ARRIVING BY DEGREES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 10

ARRIVING BY DEGREES

According to American, papers there seems to be a rush of college graduates into the heavy-weight boxing ranks. They are advertised as having a punch in one hand and a diploma in the other. Possibly they are colleagues of Gene Tunney. The latest to be put on public exhibition is Addison Exum Warren, Bachelor of Arts, University of North Carolina. It is alleged that he knocked out a number of opponents in no time at all, which is par for the course. In a photograph he is shown wearing a cap and gown and holding a framed diploma beginning with the w r ords: “Hisce literis testamur.” The remainder will be taken for granted. Tom Webster, the famous cartoonist of “The London Daily Mail,” had some expressive sketches to go with his description of heavyweight activities in Merrie England, but even without the pictures the words are illuminating. The text is as follows: “The ring at the National Sporting Club on Monday night was entirely given over the heavy-weights, and they decorated it with some very becoming positions. One punch on the chin and they went for varied iiights around the building until they found a landing place. Some came down in a spiral descent. Others volplaned gracefully, but most of them did a plain Frank Goddard. “The best man on view, however, -was a Mr. Mitchell. Despite repeated punches on the nose he couldn’t stop laughing. Evidently Mr. Mitchell sees the funny side of being a British heavy-weight.”