Here and There

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 414, 24 July 1928, Page 11

Here and There

Griffiths meets Barber at Dunedin on Saturday evening. * * * Semi-finals and finals of the Auckland championships will be decided at the Town Hall this evening. * * * It is probable that Mark Carroll will tight Jack Crowley at Wanganui on Saturday evening. This will be Crowley’s first professional fight. * * * Clarrie Pocock, of Christchurch, will arrive in Auckland on Monday to fulfil his engagement with Mclnnes on August 3. There is little doubt that when Teddy Baldock, the English bantamweight, again enters the ring he will fight as a feather-weight. Phil Coombe did not receive the decision in his first professional fight, but he gave Dick Loveridge a good run for his money. Coombe should soon be in receipt of offers from other associations. * * * Eugene Donovan, who trains Frank Taylor and Jim Broad foot, states that he would like to match Taylor with any bantam-weight in New Zealand, especially for the vacant title. The recently-arrived Scottish middleweight, Tommy Mclnnes, who will meet Clarrie Pocock, of Christchurch, in the Auckland Town Hall on August 3, has commenced training at Matt Hatton's gymnasium.

Ex-Seaman Conmee, light-weight champion of the North Shore and of the New Zealand Navy, writes to say that a poisoned finger has prevented him from taking part in the Auckland

Lonships. Conmee defeated Fred . Smitheram, the Oamaru professional, when that boxer was on H.M.S. Chatham. Conditionally upon Mclnnes making a good impression against Pocock, the Scot will be matched with Jim Broadfoot of Auckland for a purse of £, 200. Mclnnes’s third opponent has not yet been decided upon. Congratulations to Charlie Verrall. the well-known amateur fly-weight, who was married last week. "Verrall is not competing in the Auckland championships this year, but it is believed that he will still continue in the game. In a 10-round bout in New York between Phil McGraw and Bobby Burns, neither boxer paid any attention to the final bell, and the police entered the ring to prevent the contest developing into a melee betwee nthe rival boxers and their seconds. * * * Tom Greenhill, a Lismore athlete, has established what is claimed to be a ball-punching record. Ruenalf, who was a son of the old-time boxer, punched a ball for 72 consecutive hours without a spell in 1923, but Greenhill went 73 hours 10 minutes. * * * Rickard, the well-known Auckland amateur feather-weight and holder of the New Zealand University championship, is leaving this city at the beginning of August and going to YVaihi where he will engage in farming. He

will continue boxing in the mining Town as occasion permits. Johnny Leckie had one of his hardest and closest fights at Dunedin on ted lishman, Norman Radford. This was Lee Lie’s 14th professional fight and Ri dl >rd was the fifth man to go the distance with the New Zealand champion. “Strangler” Lewis, who recently regained the heavy-weight wrestling championship of the world by defeating Joe Stecher, may visit Australia. Wrestling is in the boom across the Tasman at the present time and boxing is taking a seat very near the back. If leading American wrestlers continue to come across the boxing authorities in Australia will have to put their heads together to keep the game on a firm footing.