THE BOXING RING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 698, 25 June 1929, Page 13

THE BOXING RING

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Jack Dempsey has found that it is harder to promote fights than it looks, and ho has stated that he would much rather fight than try to make a big match. Many of the American “wise guys” are strong in their belief that Dempsey will fight before the end of the year. * * * The tangle regarding the bantamweight championship of the world is no more decided than it was before, although the defeat of Gregoria by Brown in New York last week gives the latter the title, according to the State Athletic Commission. Some of tho other “governing” bodies will have something to say before any finality is reached. For the past two months .Keg Trowern has been at Whangarei, where he has been hardening his hands, which were injured in his recent bouts. He now says that they are as good as ever, and he will soon be on the lookout for matches. Last year Trowern travelled many thousands of miles, going as far abroad as South Africa, in addition to fighting in New Zealand and Australia. His First Defeat So Donovan has lost for the first time, but that it should be on a foul is disappointing. Up to the foprtli round of his affair with North," the young Australian, he had had the better of the going, but he was twice warned before —once for a low punch, and the second time for using the rabbit punch. North weighed only Bst 41b, and he should get a match with one of the smaller associations with either Hurne or Taylor in the opposite corner. The least said of the foul blow the better. Donovan was very sorry afterwards, and it certaily was not intentional, but. going by the reports of some of his previous battles, he has been lucky not to have been reprimanded in a similar way before. Wrestling Bouts Likely Training daily on the Takapuna Tom Alley, American wrestler, who arrived in Auckland last week, is getting ready for matches in Auckland. The New Zealand Wrestling Association expects that he will take the ring about the end of next month against a wrestler who will be brought from America. The association has cabled Pat McCarthy and Kilonis, who put up such hectic exhibitions last year. Walter Jonsen, Finnish champion. and Billy Meeske. and it is hoped that one will come to Auckland to meet Alley. Alley, who weighs in the vicinity of 13st 71b, has taken part in about 85 contests, and has won about 75. He claims the light-heavy-weight and heavy-weight championships of Utah, Montana. Idaho, and Wyoming—eight titles in all. Thus it can be seen that he is no stranger to the wrestling art. and he should provide Aucklanders with good displays.

It is not likely that the Northern Boxing Association will stage a carnival before the Auckland provincial championships on July 29 and 30. The proposed professional bouts have come to nothing, and there is little time to arrange another. It is no easy task to comment pn Tommy Griffiths’s performances in Australia. lie was badly beaten in his first fight, when he met McAllister, but atoned for that when ho decisively defeated Cocoa Jackson. Now he lias been defeated by Ern Connors, a second-rater, on a technical knockout in eight rounds. Griffiths was never a world-beater, but he was expected to do better on the other side. Donovan’s Busy Month Donovan is in for a busy time next month. On July 8 he meets Leslie, of Auckland, in a return fight at Wanganui over 15 rounds for a £IOO purse,, and on July 13 is billed to face Hatton at New Plymouth under similar conditions. On July 29 it is expected that he will make his first appearance in Wellington with an imported Australian (who has not yet been selected) as an opponent. Since Leckie’s departure for Australia, Donovan has been first man in the New Zealand boxing ring. Wellington Shows the Way The Wellington Association is showing the way to the others in the Dominion. Last evening it commenced a vigorous campaign with the ITurneWhihp clash, and next Monday Parker will defend his light-heavy-weight title against Jim Broadfoot. Incidentally, it looks as if the title will come to Auckland, Broadfoot having twice proved has superiority over the champion. Another professional bout on July 15 is \nooted. and Donovan is expected to cftish with an importation on July 29. Ouite an ambitious programme, anti one which other associations would well to follow. Leckie Still on Top Recently Clautie Wilson, who twice lost to Johnny I*eckie, stated that the New Zealander fvould not do much good in the United States, but he will have to reconsider his verdict to some extent following L*eckie’s defeat of Sarron at Sydney on Saturday evening. Even should Dickie be defeated when he goes to the* States, he has proved good enough .for the best at the weight to visit Australia. It can be argued that Sarron a bantam, but the American weighed in at Bst 91b, and Leckie only 111 b heavier —about 21b less than his best fighting weight in New Zealand. It must .have been a great fight, and, according to the cabled version. Sarron near to sending the New Zealander tfo slumberland. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT “Wager,” Mount Eden.—Bert Brown. Reg,. Trowern.