The crowds poured into Sydney Stadium on Saturday light. It was a real whiff of other times when big things attracted like a magnet. The buzz of excitement was there as on some of the Darcy nights. It shows that when the ...
Article : 1,087 wordsIt has often been said that Jack Dempsey was, in his prime, one of the finest examples of perfect physical fitness that ever trod the resined canvas. Jimmy De Forest, his trainer, and a world's famous conditioner, tells of the methods by which he turned Dempsey into the greyhound of the ring. ...
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Article : 13 wordsThree 10-round bouts comprised a popular programme at Leichhardt on Friday night. Two heavyweights—Jack O'Malley (12.3) and Archie Rikola (12.7) furnished the main event, O'Malley winning on a knockout in the fifth round. ...
Article : 571 wordsTHE late Frank Slavin was the last of the great heavyweights to fight under the old London prize ring ...
Article : 211 wordsWHEN "Honest Tom" Heeney, that indefatigable scrapper who is always ready to take two to give one, climbed into the ring to meet Gene Tunney for the championship of the world, he revived the memories of thirty and forty years ago, when other champions of Australia came ...
Article : 1,360 wordsThe rising Sydney lightweight. Tommy Elgy (9.4½), continued his run of knock out victories at the expense of Bob Hale (9.9) at Leichhardt Stadium last week. ...
Article : 449 wordsThe preliminary bouts preceding the Haines-Anderson boat at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night were good. Two ended in knockouts. In the ...
Article : 284 wordsMIDDLEWEIGHT champion Jack Haines enhanced his reputation on Saturday night at the expense of the American importation, "Tiger" Andy Anderson. Haines was never extended. He punched with effortless case; was methodical and precise in his punches, and won without ...
Article : 437 wordsIzzy Schwartz, some time flyweight champion of the world, announced his retirement from the resined canvas square after he had been outpointed by an unknown Frenchman, Eugene Huat, at Madison Square Garden, New York, last month. ...
Article : 426 wordsTommy Crowle, the Australian featherweight champion, made a successful New Zealand debut when he outpointed Johnnie Leckie in a 15-round ...
Article : 67 wordsThe competition to decide who is to be challenger for Billy McAlister's bantam championship will be advanced another stage at Sydney ...
Article : 222 wordsJack Carroll and Billy Richards have signed articles to meet in a 15 three-minute round contest on Saturday week at Sydney Stadium. The winner will ...
Article : 78 wordsHorrie Conley (9.3), holder, and Billy Mason (9.4) boxed for the Tasmanian lightweight championship last week. Conley retained the title after a good ...
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Advertising : 25 wordsALL who saw Harry Mason in action in Sydney may read the following, from London "Sporting Life," with some surprise: ...
Article : 455 wordsA syndicate has taken over The Ring, Blackfriars, London, with the intention of re-constructing it on bigger and more modern lines. It is proposed to develop the goodwill established nearly twenty years ago, embracing the principle of a club or membership which will provide for ...
Article : 244 wordsPete Sarron, the American featherweight, demonstrated again that he is the master of Billy Grime. They met for the fourth time at Auckland ...
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Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Wed 1 Jan 1930, Page 10
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