BOXING NOTES
weight, who has been resting during the past three months, is expected to be back in the game at the beginning of the new season. oe * * Maurice Strickland struck trouble when he was knocked out recently by Lee Savoldi Ba * % In Australia Ron Richards is considered the greatest boxer-fighter since Ambrose Palmer held the heavy-weight championship. * * * At Sydney recently, Richards knocked out the U.S.A. boxer Atilo Sabatino in the ninth round of a fight that "sizzled" in oppressive heat. * % * Les Cotter, Blenheim boxing referee, has had a long connection with the game. A boxer himself in the days gone by, he is now better known as a boxing referee. PARRIS, brilliant welter- * * * An old-timer recently said that the American style of boxing to-day is a combination of slapping, cuffing and mauling. He believes that the men boxing to-day have no science, and that these "streamlined go-getters’" would have been mere water bucket attendants in his day. Caustic criticism! Bs % Be A recent chat with Henry Seff, manager of "Playland" at the Exhibition, elicited the information that Max Baer is a very fine type, and far from the boastful fellow we have been led to believe. Ba * +. Mr. Seff was present at a dinner given to Baer after Baer had been beaten by Tommy Farr. Baer, he said, had an abundance of high spirits, but was "just a fine fellow who liked everybody and everything, and was high in his praise.for the. manner in which Broadribb guided Farr through the contest."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 55
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