LEVINSKI LOOKED THE NOVICE
COULD NOT HIT YOUNG BOXER
CRUDE SWIPING IN TRAINING
(By HAROLD LEWIS)
London, March 31.
A more extraordinary gymna- sium boxing display I have never
BRUGNON DEFEATS" SCHROEDER“ ·
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seen than that of King Levinski, ammm................................................
the American heavy-weight,
at
Taplow, yesterday, during his 14 CLUB LIMIT
training for his fight with Jack
Doyle at Wembley next Tuesday. FOR GOLFERS
As a swiper he is cruder than UNLIKELY
the crudest of novices. There was not the slightest pretence of boxing; nor did Levinski stop to remember that this was merely a sparring match.
Against a novice from Wales named James-he has reached the semi-final of the Wembley novices competition-Levinski fought like an enraged bricklayer, lashing his fists with the most woeful waste of energy.
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The novice, James, took it with contemptuous calm. Not single serious blow landed on him In view of the result of this in- during the two rounds, the most quiry, I doubt whether the R. and damaging being a few round-arm A., despite America's insistence, slaps to the body with the side of will introduce the proposed res- the glove.
triction on January 1-next. found time to More than 200 clubs have made shoot a left heavily to the face, with returns. They prove that of a total ense, and moreover had the auda-membership of 81,000, only 563 city to pin Levinski once or twice players carry more than 14 clubs. with a right to the jaw. The strang-The percentage is:0.7... er might have been forgiven for asking which was the star and which the novice. Logically, he
James, himself,
HIGHER PERCENTAGES
The latter won the first match last week by one goal to nil, on the US.R.C. ground.
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would not have been wrong if he Higher percentages are revealed ing four-baggers, while Chicago
had taken Levinski to be the novice, in the figures of some of the lead-White Sox replied with 10 runs in
ing clubs, as shown below:-era
With Alf Robinson, who has emerged from the novice stage dur- ing the past year, Levinski was no more successful, except that Robin- son rarely attacked him, but content to avoid or block the punches aimed at him.
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IF HE HITS DOYLE'S CHIN—
I will say this: if Levinski hits Doyle on the chin with one of his enormous punches the fight will cease there and then. Levinski, dangerous. But although he has ter. though crude, has some speed, but met the best in America, he would]. I doubt whether he knows himself never lay a glove on Len Harvey or when he is going to hit out, or in any others heavyweight who can box. what particular direction.
Still, he carries the possibility of To a man such as Doyle, who has an unpleasant surprise, and his fight moments of contemplation and men-with Doyle should at least be enter tal inertia, this American may be "taining.
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