BOXING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3610, 24 August 1912, Page 3

BOXING.

A VVhita Hops—Ai Paizer. Al. Paizer is now being boomed the States as the one white man likely to give Johnson a tough fight since Jim Flynn failed so badly in his impossible task. Paizer has proveei himself to be one of the best all-round white boxers in America, and appear to be the only ’'White Hope in sight at the present time with a chance against the negro. Possessed of great strength and apparently unlimited capacity for absorbing punishment without betraying any ill effects therefrom, the lowa farmer might do worse than take a chance with the champion. He would rank as second choice, of course, nut the old adage of "Nothing venture, nothing win” holds good as far as he is concerned, and if he only managed t u stick the ten rounds with Johnson Lis pugilistic stock would boom .in skyrocket fashion. New blood is most emphatically what is needed in the ranks of the white heavies. The pa:efaced veterans have all been tred and found wanting, and everyone who has the interest of the boxing game at heart is longing for the appearance on the scene of some husky, ambitious youth who is not afraid to risk his skin in a forlorn hope. Paizer s recent victory over England’s champion heavy, Bombardier Wells, though secured through a knock-cut, did not add as much glamor to his reputation

as it might iiave done. American files say that the ex-soldier from the "Old Dart" completely outb-oxod the man from tiie soil, and appeared to have matters well in hand when the lullaby producer put an end to all the Englishman’s aspiration.!*. Another meeting of the two men is quite on the cards, and the tale that it will tell will make interesting reading to these who are- in search of a white opponent to Massa John Johnson. The Middle-weight Title

Biliy Papke, who claims to be the world's middleweight champion. ;s evidently determined to remain in tlie boxing game for u while yet, as, idlowing his defeat of Marcel Moreeau. the French boxer, lie has agreed to fight Eddie McGoorty 10 rounds at Kenosha. Wisconsin (U.S\) on Labor

Day. Eddie McGoorty is a middleweight who possesses great speed aiid ring cunning, but, like Papke, he inputting cn weight fast, and he should experience just as much, difficulty as the champion in reaching the recognised middleweight limit in America, viz., 1-5 S pounds ringside. Somv

months ago when Eddie McGoorty en-

deavored to secure a match will tlie famous Italian middleweight. Hugo Kelly, the latter told McGoorty that he would have to defeat Ins friend and sparring partner, -Jimmy Howard, before ho -could .be accounted worthy of meeting Kelly. McGoortc straightaway met Howard, and tooled all the wise ones who thought he did not • carry a knock-out punch in his glove by rocking that boxer to sleep in less than two rounds. Frank

Klaus, who is at present in France, opines that he holds the Little Mary circlet, ancl since defeating GeorgeCarpentier, considers that- liis grip on the distinction is firmer than ever. It would be more satisfactory to all concerned, if these who squeak a claim for the title were put through an domination process and the whole olion settled right out. At the present time no loss than four reckon thatthey are the one. ancl.only when there are a couple or three matches being fought at the one time for the world's middleweight championship, it makes people who are not- exactly in the know wonder.