THE BOXING RING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1048, 12 August 1930, Page 13

THE BOXING RING

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Fixtures Bloom v. H. Leckie, Blenheim, tonight. Mclnnes v. Palmer, Auckland, August 13. New Zealand Amateur Championships, Palmerston North, August 21, 22, 23. * * * The sport is in the 2doldrums in Australia and there is a large number of boxers contemplating a visit to New Zealand. * * * Following his defeat by Singer and the loss of his light-weight title, Sammy Mandell intends fighting in the welter division in future.^ The Auckland team for the New Zealand championships is in hard training at the Fire Station gymnasium under the eye of Eugene Donovan who will accompany the team to Palmerston North. * • *

Jack Haines had his hardest battle for months before he knocked out

Frank Van in 3 2 rounds in Sydney on Saturday night. Van may be brought over by the Northern Association to meet the winner of the Palmer-Mclnnes bout. * * *

Charlie Purdy returned to Australia by the Aorangi last evening after a short stay in Auckland. If he makes good in his next few fights Purdy intends returning to his home country to

seek contests and would especially like to meet Trowern when the latter’s suspension lias elapsed.

An Englishman has been the first to put defeat on the record of Kid Chocolate, the Cuban feather-weight who has frightened many of the best men in the class in America. Jack Berg has met with phenomenal success in the States and he will be in great demand following his defeat of Chocolate. • • *

The return of Tommy Mclnnes has aroused considerable interest in boxing circles. No one who saw his memorable contests with Lachie McDonald could forget Mclnnes and it is to be hoped he can show us some of the fighting he did in the past. Palmer has a good reputation and the fight on Wednesday evening should give fans something to talk about. There is a scarcity of really good boxers but these two should provide a hard contest. • • *

It is reported from America that Schmeling wore the newly-patented body guard which was guaranteed to nullify any low blow. But it either did not work out in practice or Schmeling was only squealing to get the decision. As 250 newspaper critics were present at the fight, and the majority claimed that Schmeling had been badly fouled, it does not seem that the guard was as good as its guarantee. And Schmeling cannot be accused of squealing without cause, when it is taken into consideration that Sharkey hit his sparring partners so low that he had difficulty to get them into the ring with him a second time.

French Recognitions Acting in conjunction with the International Federation of Boxing, the French Federation recognises only four world’s champions—Frank Genaro, flyweight: Bat Battalino, feather; Sammy Mandell, light: and Jack Thompson, welter. Mandell has recently been defeated by A 1 Singer in a bout for the title, and Battalino and Thompson are recognised as champions by most of the associations and commissions in America, although there are several better feathers than Battalino. Genaro is only recognised by a few commissions.

Many are the names with which Camera has been christened, but one American writer has struck a new line by calling him “world’s bulk: -weight champion.”

WRESTLING GOSSIP

There won’t be any wrestlers left in Auckland soon. Nearly all are under engagement down South. George Walker left on Sunday evening for Christchurch, where he will spend a short holiday. Talking to the writer on Saturday evening. George said that he was still suffering from the effects of the bite of the katipo spider some time ago. Evidently the poison was not out of his system, as when he had wrestled three rounds last Monday evening he began to feel the effects and was confined to his bed later in the week. • * * Tom Alley left last evening for Wellington where he wrestles “Scotty” McDougall tonight. Tom has one knee injured and if it effects him in this bout he is going to spell for a time. If he comes through all right he is booked to meet Alex Lundyn in Dunedin on August 16. • • • Kara Pasha was another passenger for the South last evening. He stops at Palmerston North to wrestle Tom Ray on Wednesday evening. • • • It is not likely there will be another contest in Auckland for a fortnight The Auckland Union is very pleased with its first effort and will soon have another good bill before the public. Th* carnival on Saturday evening went without a hitch and the officers of the union are to be commended on their management and organisation. There were four wrestlers on the Aorangi this trip, Joe Stecher, exworld’s hea\*y-weight champion. his brother Tony. Abe Coleman and Walter Logan. Logan steps off in Auckland but the others are through passengers to Sydney. Stecher doesn’t look .a wrestler, let alone a champion, but Coleman “five feet two, all sinew and thew,” looks like two or three strong men placed side by side and welded together. He’s one tough baby if every there was one. George Kotsonaros has nothing on him.

Walter Hogg, New Zealand-born wrestler, is seeking contests with the professionals at present in New Zealand. Hogg has had a long athletic career. Born in Wellington, he boxed and wrestled as an amateur and later figured as a professional in both sports. As a professional, he fought Albert Pooley and was runner-up in the Olympia £I,OOO and £1,500 tournaments in Australia, and took up professional wrestling, meeting Anderson twice and Powell. He went over to Australia in 1926, and challenged Clarence Webber for the all-round athletic championship, but Webber declined. Hogg wrestled a draw with Peter Limutkin and wrestled Ad Santell, Scott, McDougall, Heslin and Koolman. A press cutting states that Santell said that his contest with Hogg was one of the hardest he had ever had and that the New Zealander was a tough proposition for anybody to tackle, his great strength making him a very awkward man to handle. Salrtell won the match by two falls in nine rounds in what the cutting describes as a splendid exhibition of wrestling. The New Zealander weighs about 14 stone and has magnificent physique. He has spent much time weight-lifting and says he has not yet met a stronger man than himself.