HEENEY’S DEFEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 26 September 1929, Page 10

HEENEY’S DEFEAT.

LACK OF TRAINING ALLEGED

“COULD DEFEAT CAMPOLO.” GISBORNE, Sept. 24. “Heeney is a rugged and courageous fighter, and has won many friends and boosters in America, but it was very evident that he had not trained for his last fight,” stated an American business man in a letter to a Gisborne friend anent the Heeney-Campolo clash at New York a month ago. “Heeney’s younger and much larger Argentinian opponent, had attended to his preparation with the utmost care, and friend Heeney had to take the consequences,” the writer continues. “it is my personal belief that could defeat Campolo and practically all the other hopefuls now scrambling for Tunney’s vacated title if he would train as diligently as- he did for hie fight with Tunney, but he must not take ail these young upstarts as push-overs and neglect his training with the idea that his experience and ruggedness will pull him through. He’s becoming a trifle too old for that and it is neither safe nor good sportsmanship in any event. “Nevertheless the sympathy of the crowd seined to bo all with Heeney, and I hope the big boy will train carefully and stage a comeback in his next attempt as he is on© of the gamest and fairest men who has ever appeared in anv ring. He deserves the best, but he cannot hope to continue as a headliner indefinitely,” the letter finishes.