GLOVED GLADIATORS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 233, 2 November 1929, Page 13

GLOVED GLADIATORS

big boxing in new zealand SOME COM1NG ..MATCHES (Notes by "Uppercut".)

To score a draw with Reg Trowern at Greymouth last week stamps the ex-Olympic champion as the goods. Trowern was really the first serious rival he had met, and there were many who thought that Tro'wern's experience and ring craft would tell its tale, but Morgan is still able to show an unbeaten reeord in iour contests. The fact that he was able to draw with Trowern marks him as at least good enough to table Artie Hay for his welter crown, for although Hay defeated Trowern in their last clash, there was verv little between them. At the same time, Morgan will find Hay quite a different proposition to Trowern, for he has just as much experience, a greater punch and a much longer reach. The contest is schcduled to take place at Gisborne on November 28, but at the moment Hay's training operations are held up by an eye injury. donovan's* big trial Tommy Donovan, if eveiything went to scbedule, met Tommv Doble at Wellington last night, and if Dqble lived up to his Australian reputation, M7ellington faris must have witnessed a great contest. match ed with sarron Donovan, by the way, has the most serious battle of his life on November 30, for that is the date on which he is due to meet Pete Sarron. New Plymouth is the venue, and it will be hard to find a vacant seat in the hall when these two clash. It is without doubt the great attraction New Zealand has seen for years, and tlie only one which looks likely to rival it, is that when Grime and Leckie come together. The Donovan-Sarron scrap, however, will be a very different affair to that between Leckie and Grime. Sarron ancl Donovan are both whirlwinds, throwing punches from 'anywhere and everywhere and each punch carries a sleeping potion when it is delivered. It is laard to imagine the contest going the clistance with two such fighters, but it is equally hard to sort out the winner. The majority will perhaiDS plonk for Sarron, because they know of what he is capable, but they don't know just how much Donovan is capable of. He has done evervthing he has been asked, and the defeat of Sarron is not beyond him, but at the same time, if he can aecount for Sarron he need be afraid of no boxer in the world. grime' wants more Billy Grime. bv the way. is still not satisfied with the result of his second

contest with Sarron and is claiming a further match on a winner-take-all basis. It is stated that Grime is keen to have this scrap in Australia, but at the time, he was probably not aware that Sarron was also coming to New Zealand. Now that both are to be here in December, it looks liks a gi'eat chance to get a. Wonclerf ul match. W'hat a draw for Napier or Hastings. an offer for hay Tlie latest Australian Referee reports that an offer has been received from Hastings for Carroll or Hancock to come to New Zealand to meefc Artie Hay, a purse of £150 being offered. The Referee adds : — "It is unlikely that the purse well be large enough^ to attract either man to travel to New Zealand. The match would draw in the vicinity of £1000 in Sydney and it should be worth Stadiums Ltd.'s while to induce Hay to- visit Australia. according ' to plans Despite rumpurs to the contrary, there is still every indication that the Leckie-Grime match will take place at Napier, according to sc-hedule, on December 7. Leckie experts to be ready by then, and there is nothing to hold Grime bac-k in Australia. fairhall after 'title Tommy Fairhall is evidently back to his best form and last night at Sydney was to have met M'allv Hancock for the Australian welter crown, which the latter won from Charlie Purdy. Hancock as champion, was' guaranteed £140 and Fairhall was to receive 25 per cent. of the house. and as a £600 is anticipated. Fairhall should not be anv worse off than Hancock — financially, at anv rate. * * * nothing doing Tlie proposed heavyweight contest between the veteran Colin Bell and the giant Pat Redmond, has not yet eventuated in Australia, ^and now it would appear that Bell is not going to get a chance to prove that he can or cannot "come back." for Redmond refuses to meet' the old timer.