BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 4

BOXING.

SIDELIGHTS OF THE RING. N.Z. NEWS AND NOTES. The Te Aroha Association has eome to light and is putting on, along with minor events, a main slam, the principals of which are not yet decided on. The date is Monday night. That coloured disciple of the clout game, Jamito, gets his opportunity next Monday to prove that the decision in his previous clash with Nelson McKnight was wrong. On December 2, Bert McCarthy concludes his contract with the Wellington Association by matching his skill with that of Charlie Purdy. So pleased were the Wanganui heads with their recent first and resultant profit that they have decided to let loose in their ring on December 13. Aucklanders Purdy and Trowern. Victorian Bert McCarthy displayed fistic wares of a vastly superior order in his battle with Jamito than in his tussle with Trowern a fortnight ago. A fine house at Wellington hst week extended to both an impressive reception on their appearance in the ring, and the fans’ anticipation of something de luxe was fully borne out by the 15 rounds of thrilling exchanges which followed. At the bell Jamito proceeded to look for stoush and the Victorian showed his willingness to accommodate the tinted-skinned one by sending his left weightily to the face. The Filipino signalised bis disapproval by fiercely charging and placing some powdercharged rights, and on getting to close quarters, showed to advantage with a battery of blows downstairs. Many times in the succeeding half-dozen rounds the Victorian's left was sent on a face-finding mission, the replies from his opponent being, for the most part, snappy rights. McCarthy almost rung down the curtain in the seventh session by varying his attack and placing three hefty rights on his opponent’s jaw, but Jamito disposed of the effect of these with a shake of his dusky "nob” and tore in to deliver a heavy tattoo to the slats. It was close battling with little between them up to the 12th, but in the last rounds McCarthy came away with a run that landed him about a head in front, and the referee hoisted his number, which, however, did not meet with the unanimous ‘approval of the crowd. The boos at the decision were merely a demonstration of sympathy with the popular Filipino, the decision being, no doubt, the correct one. In the prelims, true-blue lily-white Cleverley proved too much for Davies, an H.M.S. Dunedin pug. Fresh from their bout at Millerton, Harry Casey and Dick Elmour were put on by the Christchurch Sports Club on November 10, but they did not reproduce their sterling West Coast exhibition, although the scrap was quite a fair display. Casey again won, his short-arm punching being too vimful for the Froggy, whose attempts to hold the Australian at bay with his left were very weak. There must be a hoodoo on fierce fights in the Cathedral City, and not since the days of Brian McCleary have the Southern enthusiasts seen anything good enough to satisfy, and the many tame contests staged are beginning to pall on them. McCleary, who scaled at just on 12st., and in the capable hands of Jim Musson, gave some finished exhibitions in disposing of the late Cyril Whittaker, Pooley, Jack Heeney and Laurie Cadman, the two latter fights being the "real Mac Kay.” McCleary might still be gracing the canvas but for the battering received at the hands of Tom Heeney—one of the greatest blunders in refereeing known to the game in New Zealand. Tom must have been avenging the bad beating McCleary handed to little brother Jack when he fought the southerner. BRIEFS FROM ABROAD. * The popular Frenchman, Gene Voltire, recently played second fiddle to one Austin, over 15 rounds at Brisbane Stadium. Billy Grime, Australian feather and light champion, will make tracka for America in the New Year, where his fame as a skilful exponent of the noble art will take him right among the big puree?. Saturday, November 27, sees the meeting of "Sunny” Jim Williams and Tiger Payne, at the Sydney Stadium. If the Tiger carries out his expressed intentions in regarj to the “Sunny” one an inquest will most probably follow the dust-up. However, Williams knows a thing or two about looking after himself and Payne has the hardest part to do, despite his supreme confidence. Both arc American cons and this marks their second clash, Williams taking the honours in their previous disturbance. Death has claimed the noted old-timer* Peter Felix. A score of years ago the coloured pugilist was good enough to stack up against Fam Langford, Sam McVea and the great Jack Johnson. Johnson, however, ehattered hie pretensions in two rounds in his first fight in Australia prior to meeting Tommy Burns. With Joe Thomal, another coloured man of some skill with his “dooks,” he appeared in minor parts in several of Oecar Aeche'a P Kearns, having been "sacked ’by Jack Dempsey, has been looking round for another dollar-winniug champion who will bring griet to his mill as the heavy-weight king did. Dempsey has earned round about 2,909,000 dollars as a pugilist, and Kearns, who was on a fifty-fifty split with him finds it hard to get out of the habit of drawing down the simoleons earned by someone else. So l>o has discoverer! Napoleon Dorval, of Pensylvanla. six-foot-forir, fast, hard and clever, and he is boosting the said Napoleon as the best heavyweight in the world. We judge from the following panegyric on Dorval, that Kearns is not visiting Dempsey these . days:—“This youngster, who is hailed far and wide as the greatest heavyweight box-fighter of the day, came to Loa Angelce recently, and immediately began training. He is the biggest surprise I have seen in years, and every day only strengthens me in the belief that Napoleon Dorval is to become ono of tlie greatest champions we ever had in the division where tonnage counts most. He is game and enduring, a good hitter with both hands, clever, and fast with hands and feet. He has not been in tlie game long, hut evidently long enough to do things that suggest the probability that he is a comer who has all the attributes of a great fighter, and one who is destined to wear the honour* now held by the redoubtable flghtlcM champion. IVe greatly need an aggressive big fighter with the punch to headline boxing and keep the manly sport progressing—in the limelight. Jack Dempsey may be technically the world’s heavy-weight champion, but for the past few years he hao failed to defend hie mighty title against all worthy challengers, and consequently ba* lessened and In his class especially.”