BOXING NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 17

BOXING NOTES

Armstrong Down To Zivic + Gildo's In-Fighting + Brander Had "Buckley's Chance"

HERE was never a good man who did not sooner or later meet someone better. From the days of Sullivan to the present time, champions have had to give pride of place to others, with Gene Tunney one of the few exceptions. The latest to go under is Henry Armstrong, welter-weight champion of the world, known for his smashing tactics and long series of knock-out wins as "Dynamite Henry." On a recent Saturday afternoon the writer tuned in to an American station and caught the broadcast of the last few rounds of his championship battle with Fritzie Zivic. The thirteenth round was in progress and a_ badly-battered Henry was reeling under punches that made his own seem feather-duster flips in comparison, In the last round Armstrong was on the ropes taking the same sort of punishment he had handed out so often, It was @ very excited announcer who broadcast the news that " Dynamite Henry" was the welter-weight champion no longer. * % * Herman Gildo broke the spell when he met Clarrie Rayner in Wellington and ran out a winner on points at the end: of twelve rounds. Rayner had been putting it over Gildo during recent months, but Gildo has yet to admit that any boxer ever had a hoodoo on him.

Rayner gave one of his most impressive displays and at long range was the master; but with his head on Rayner’s chest and his gloves working overtime with half-arm jolts, Gildo was at home. He is certainly a great in-fighter. * a ba When Les. Brander saw the first round out in his return bout with the Alabama Kid at Auckland, he became full of confidence, although an incident in the first, when Brander claimed that an uppercut had landed low, created a momentary impression that this bout, too, would end. The referee’s "box on" smoothed matters over. Brander was doing fairly well up to the end of the third. In the fourth his mouth guard became jammed in his throat. The negro stood off until the trouble was rectified. In the fifth round the Kid showed impatience. He sprang out, dropped his tight on Brander’s chin, and that was the end of the show. The bout proved conclusively that the Australian has only one chance of beating the negro, and that is " Buckley’s." There is talk that Brander might be engaged to meet Cliff Hanham but the prospects are that Brander will return to Sydney. At 12.10 he would be somewhat heavy for the Waimate man,