THE BOXING RING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 14

THE BOXING RING

NOTI.V FROM f A.R AND WEAR

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Fixtures Cleverfey v. Miller, Stratford, May 29. Cleverley v. Hughes, Christchurch, June 3 (probable). Leckie v. Shack, Auckland, June 3. Grime v. Donovan, Hawera, June 6. [Negotiations are in progress to snatch. Hay and Hancock at Hastings. lc is reported that Dunedin is considering staging a return contest between Leckfe and Shack. Messrs. * Dick” Meal© and X. McLean have been appointed referees of tho Northern Association. The Governor-General, Lord Bledis7oe, has accepted tho office of patron of the Northern Boxing Association. Sir Charles Fergusson was the previous patron. Tom Heeney is reported to have lost nearly £ 20,000 in the Wall Street crash and he hopes to retrieve some of his lost fortunes in his bout with Rocco, the Italian heavy-weight, on June 23. • * * Ted Piekrang, the ex-New Zealand heavy-weight, was knocked out by the Irish giant. Pat Redmond, at the Leichhardt Stadium recently, after a terrific contest of 14 rounds. Piekrang, at one stage, nearly knocked out his three stone heavier opponent. The opening of Fritz Holland’s new school in Queen Street promises to revive interest in amateur boxing-. Already many applications to take the boxing • ours© have been received and Fritz expects to turn out some future amateur champions. The old-timer knows the game from A to Z and has been teaching for so long that it is now second nature and he can detect a boy's weaknesses and overcome them in short order. The new gymnasium is light and airy and there is enough space for half a dozen bouts at the same time.

‘ Midget’* Wolgast, of Philadelphia, by defeating Black Bill, of Cuba, in a 15-round bout, won New York State recognition as fly-weight champion of the world. He will defend his “title” against Ginaro at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday evening, according to latest advice. Football Wrestling McCarthney, amateur heavy-weight champion of Auckland, found a tough opponent on Saturday, although it was on tho football field and not in the boxing ring. It seemed inevitable that when Dufty, of Ellerslie. was caught in possession, it was McCarthney. of [Devonport, who did the trick. At one stage Mac had quite a tussle in getting Dufty off his feet and on the next occasion he adopted wrestling tactics, clamped on a reverse headlock to bring the Ellerslie colours down. The Kids’ Fight American advices state that “Kid” Chocolate and “Kid” Berg, of England, will fight on June 2S. Berg has been undefeated in America and the darkey has not a defeat to his name. Knowing the American attitude to low blows, as in the Scott-Sharkey affair, Berg, although dropped twice by foul blows in a bout with Joe Glick. came back to all but knock out his opponent and collect a popular ’decision. Even the American writers “wrote up” Glick for his fouling tactics and sang the praises of the game English bos’.

"LEFT COUNTER."

Delegates; from all parts of New Zealand will meet in Wellington tomorrow to investigate the present state of boxing in the Dominion and to endeavour to iron out many of* the wrinkles in the fistic sheet. Mr. George Bush, president of the N.8.A., is the Auckland delegate. Willie Smith recently arrived in England with challenges for Baldock, Corbett and Pladner, and with a side bet of £SOO to meet Baldock for the bantam-weight championship of the British Empire. A week-end cable states that Corbett outpointed the South African in a match in London. An Idol’s Downfall Waitara’s idol has crashed and in doing so has proved that Johnny Leckie is once again back to form. To defeat Donovan was a task which many though Leckie could not perform, but not only did the feather-weight champion win, but retained liis title on a technical knockout. Waitara will be in mourning this week. Keen students of tho game expected Leckie to win, provided he was in his olcl-time form. A stand-up boxer of Leckie’s type invariably defeats a boxer of the Donovan school, if they are equal in other respects. There should be a packed house when Leckie fights Shack in Auckland on the King’s Birthday. Trowern Does a Good Job Trowern fought the fight of Ins life when lie defeated Hancock in Wellington last week. In the ninth round Hancock launched a left hook which missed and followed up with a terrific right to the jaw which knocked Trowern across the ring and left him groggy*. Tho Aucklander said afterwards that he thought his jaw was smashed, but another blow, instead of putting the final touch. curiously enough revived him and he kept out of trouble until the gong. Hancock stated later that it was the hardest fight he had ever had and the spectators said it was the greatest fight ever seen in Wellington. It would be nice to see Trowern in action in his home town once more. WRESTLING GOSSIP

The following was issued at the match last Monday.—“ Notice to wrestlers and referee. In all contests under tho control of the New Zealand Wrestling Association the following holds, etc., are under no circumstances allowed and may lead to disqualification: Strangle-hold, gouging, either eyes, nose or mouth ,one finger or one toe hold, rabbit punching over four inches, striking with clenched hand, kicking, unnecessary use of the ropes.” Of "Walker, Ebert. Lundy n, AlcDougall and Khan, all the overseas wrestlers at present in New Zealand, the last three are at present incapacitated and at the time of writing it is not known whether it will be possible to stage a contest next Monday. If McDougall wa3 not badly injured in his contest last evening and is fit to wrestle he will in all probability be opposed to Fred Ebert. The New Zealand Association is awaiting advice from McDougall regarding his condition.

It was unfortunate that Lundyn in-* jured his back while training to meet Ebert in a return contest. When the pair met recently a bright battle was seen and many thought that the Finn was a trifle lucky in getting one of the falls. There is no mistaking Lundyn’s ability, especially on defence, and a return match would have been interesting. The Finn is making good progress toward recovery and should be in action in about a fortnight.