1931-07-31 — Page 5

FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931.

ELKY CLARK DEFEATS JOHNNY BROWN

AGONISING MOMENTS

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF BROWN DIED?

PITIFUL SIGHT

fBy Elky Clark.}

Albert Hall is a wonderful place that they had taken something out for boxing. There isn't anything of him.

me,

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Was

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ropes, his hands dangling helpless- ly. He was absolutely defencelos. I looked at the referee, Mr. Mons Deyoung. I expected him to pul a stor to the fight. No. I had to carry on. My business was to knock my man to the floor in auch a way that he would stay there for ten seconds.

I have already, In this story,; Asid a fighter must be merciless, must not show the slightest-sign, of soft-heartedness, but honestly, 1 felt miserable being called upon to punch Brown that night. The hoy was so helpless.

oyes,

NEW ZEALAND SPORT.

Back to the Good Old Game.

ent.

RUGBY CHANGES.

the game in New Zealand and New South Wales, writes the Manches- ter Guardian correspondent. It spoilt longline-fading, one of the fine arta of the Rugby game; it broke up solidity of the scrums and made of battling forwards a lot of what we call "shiners;" man who quit the concerted push of the acrum with'

GOLF UNIVERSITY

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university would prove extremely useful.

Jealousy Rampant. Further developments will be

A scheme that is as remarkable watched with interest, but mean- all its unselfish labour for the lime, as any I have yet encountered was while I am given to understand light of individual "gallery" play. revealed to me. Hence the failure of New Zealand Wignall in

that

a team would

to the Professional Golfers' Asso- ciation.

I remember watching the con-

writes Trevor's-that all is not well in the Britiali Wellington, New Zealand.

the Daily Express. golf world. I have been Informed In South Africa against the old- Chiefly its aim is the establish that jealousy la rampant, and the It takes a good deal to disturb type Springbok pack, and the scara ment of a university of golf, and curious proposition has even been New Zealand's devotion to sport, the British team gave us last year, so much progress has already been put forward that in future a I see him yet In my mind's eyu. and it is some gauge of the effect He is leaning with his back on of the Hawke Bay earthquake on that players and followers of the the Idea, which has been simmer- should select the amatour Walker There are, however, two rules made that those responsible for selected committee of professionals the ropes, his knees bent. The the people of the Dominion that game here are Anding it hard to ing for more than a year, are now Cup team, and that another com middle rope is pushed out with his for a considerable time the visit of adopt. The Evening News have published exclusively the Life Story weight. Blood streams from his the New Zealand cricket team to ment" rule. In this country it has to the Government, through the the task of picking the aide for One is the "no replace- 'about ready to make application mittee of amateura should be given of Elky Clark, the Scottish boxer, in their columns in daily instal-nose and mouth. His face is puff England hung in the balance. Had been customary for teams to have Office of Works, for, a plat of the professional

Jed, and the eyes little more than it not been for the proceeds of a amergencies (apare players),,and, ground on the Crown land near matches.

Ryder Cup ments. This instalment relates to the fight between Elky Clark and slits. They are tired and want to successful

If by this It is meant lottery what Johnny Brown at the Albert Hall,

¡elose. There is no expression in euphemistically call an "art union" at almost any stage of the game. thought that Scotland, the home then we must be in a worse way we if a man is injured, to replace him Windsor. It might have been that favouritiam is playing a part them. And his arms do not have here-the team would never have Mr. Baxter was insistent on no re- of the game, would have been than is generally supposed, but "it' the strength to raise themselves left these shores. New Zealand placements, and this gospel is ac- selected for this unique purpose, may be remarked here that for in defence.

does not go strongly on cricket, but cepted. Trouble has already oc..but the originators of the plan, many days the rumour, has been like it in Britain, and as I But I had under-estimated his shaken hands with me,

An hour previously, he had there is a feeling, or, at any rate, curred in the Wairarapa over the after discussion, have decided that current that Henry Cotton will not stopped between the ropes the strength. I had not given him specimen, of anatomical beauty, ter than the previous one..

a perfect

a hope, that this team will do bet- enforcement of this rule. Two Windsor, which is very easily again be invited to join the next, great men of faces seemed to surge sufficient credit for his powers of the muscles rippling in his well-

players were injured, and in the reached from London, has elaims Ryder Cup team unless he with. towards me. It was all new to fighting back. He came at me like'

At first I could not see. The a young bull in the eighth, and absolute health mirrored in his football, and we tell the world so mediately took the field, but every

shaped body, the gorgeousness of

With Rugby football.It is differ- first natance an emergency, with not possessed by any other local- draws his stipulation in his letter

We know that we can play the consent of the captains, im- ity. are lamps above the ring were offell back. I thought at first it

Financial Assistance. such great power that when I look was a flash, but when he repeat-;

in a way that got on the nerves of time he touched the ball the referee And now!

It is also proposed to ask the

Reasonable Demand. et up at them I was temporarily ed his tearaway tactics in the

the South Africans and the British awarded a penalty against his Government for financial assist blinded. I felt I wanted smoked ninth and tenth, I know the fight thrice, I punched him, my arms go-

Cotton has agreed to pool all I stepped forward. Once, twice,

team Mr. James Baxter brought side, and he soon left again. As a anco. Whether this will be forth-winnings, but he urges that he glasses. I commented on this, but would go a long way. I altered ing as fast as I could send them. out last year. The event this year result there is feud between the coming, however, is very doubtful, and every other member of the was told I would get used to them. my plan, and in these rounds Brown's eyes closed, his head sag her mistaken heresies to the Rugby Association, which, as an indepened when the race for the Schnei- In the United States at the con.... is the return of New Zealand from Rugby Union and the Refereest especially in view of what happen side should be permitted to remain My face was ameared in vase, fought at terrific pace, with gcd. forward on his breast,, and he fold, a triumph for the "evangelism dent body, is determined to enforce der Trophy was recently the sub- | clusion of the official tour If en- line. I always like plenty on, but each hitting hard. I made use of slipped to the canvas. that night I had to take some off.the ring.

The referee stepped forward and of Baxter and his team. The pro- the law to the letter. The second fect of debate. The proposal is so gagements are offered them. To These lights shining on the stuff Tottering But 'Never Falling. waved me away. There was no

vincial Rugby unions, which hold point concerns teams leaving the ambitious, and so far removed me this seems an entirely reason- gave my face a grotesque appear.

At the half-way stage there was need to wait for a count. It was

their annual meetings first, all field at half-time, something that from anything else that has been able demand, if only for the reas ance. The vaseline'shone up actually little, if anything, in it plain Brown was finished. I went agreed with little demur to drop Mr. Baxter would never allow, launched that it is bound to create son that there is no professional strelling' hue of blue.

On a points basis.

I had been to my stool, feeling sorry that a the amended rules under which Here again common sense seems all considerable controversy, but in on earth who is in golf solely for trial in London, that if I wanted and while my face bore no marks to take such punishment.

I felt that night that I was on punching the heavier, however, wonderfully game hoy should have New Zealand had played football in favour of the existing practice the minds of those behind it there the sake of his health. Swinging since. 1920 and to accept the in this country. No replacements is a feeling that something ought a club is the pro's method of mak- to take full advantage of the posi. of punishment Brown's cut immediately Brown went to the standard rulce. The New Zealand might mean

to be done to return Great Britain ing a living, and if he is depriv tion had succeeded in achieving and swollen, and it only required foor Harry Jacobs rushed into the Union followed the lead: for myself as champion I would ja lap on the noge to turn on a ring. So did Brown's seconds, but the kick-into-touch rule, sponsored injuries or through the rough play Taylor and Braid were the great thing to boast about then "it is Thus auffer defeat by sheer ill-luck in to the golf position she occupied, ed of chances of adding to his in- in the days when. Vardon and come-which in many cases is no- require to fight my very best. I fresh flow of gore.

Jacobs ordered them not to touch by Auckland and thrust upon the of its opponents, and as for not Knew I would do so. I was per- At that period, however, I was the boy until the official doctor had rest of New Zealand, under the leaving the field, it would be al est players in the world. We have obvious that he has just cause for fectly fit, altogether 'different from as certain as could be that, bar- seen him. On the arrival of the threat that the League or Northern most fatal to players in some of the but whether the suggested univer-

certainly slipped back since then, complaint. when I fought Montreal in Glas-ring an accident, 1 would win. I doctor, he was carried to his cor- Union code would seduce the public southerly weather we get during sity will work the hoped-for trick cluding rounds of the British open gow. I was the personification of was content to plod on.

from orthodox Rugby, has gone, let the Winter. It is understood that is perhaps not so important as the championship at Hoylake two years. vitality. And was confident as eleventh round got home with a with a confidence born of that flt-left hook to the jaw, and Brown great cheering, and I crossed to of its existence it did all but ruin for an exemption in regard to these land who are desirous of making winner, but suddenly the story I was declared the winner amidst us hope, for ever. In the ten years the New Zealand R.F.U. will ask fact that there are people in the ago. Bobby Jones was the likely - went down. He was up again im-r my opponent. He was still out, The Press critics have frequent-mediately to the cheers, of his sup- and the appearance of him caused and those of my party were, in

went round that Leo Diegel was ly written that was almost in-porters, and came at me again. 'me alarm.

He was unconscious, much the same boat. An attempt

British: University..

running him very close. I moved variably slow to get started. That The more I hit him the more he and his head rolled about in aby someone to crack a joke falled bugbear of Mr. Baxter, who called: If this new institution does to the sixteenth green, and it wag" was a wrong ylew of my fighting.came to me.

strange, uncanny manner, as his miserably.

the contro come into existence, it is intended while I was standing there that I always went into a bout with a But gradually 1 was wearing seconds tried to pull him round.

"I got my bath and a rub-down.versy still rages. The laws at the to give tuition to young amateurs Bob Harlow, the most famous plan of campaign, and, "no matter | him' down, and in the sixteenth I went back to my corner and told I dressed, and all the time those game certainly permit a player to and professionals, and likewise to American manager of golfers, pull- who was in my corner, I like to round he found a lot of trouble. Jim M'Onie and Pat M'Greechin around me talked of "What would act as wing-forward, so long as he green-keepers, stewards, and every ed at my sleeve. "I've just seen stick to it. Broadly speaking, my Earlier in the fight his friends and the others. Friends from happen if Brown died?" I con- keeps behind the ball. On the one else connected with the game. twenty-five thousand dollars thrown plan was to spend some rounds had been advising him to be wary Scotland were at the ringside.fess I was miserable, and my

other hand, footballers here think The primary object is to found a away," he said, with a wry smile.. sizing up my man. I allowed him of my right. He had taken that They all wanted to shake my hand. spirita didn't rise one blt when a

the English method of putting the university for Britons, but I be "How's that?" 1 questioned. to take the initiative, having con-advice, but now he was unable, to

Agonising Moments, hollow voice talked of manslaught ball into the scrum unfair, and lieve that foreigners, too, will be "Diegel foosted a shot" replied fidence in my own defence,"

do so, and I found an easy pass- I responded to their wish in a

they dislike the English practise of permitted to buy schooling should Harlow. What he meant was that age, for a short right that shoved mechanical sort of way, for Time went on,' and' our little shepherding" a player with the that be their wish. The whole if Diegel had won the champion- his head back time after time, eccond doctor had been called. party came to the conclusion that ball, which our referees would be thing, at the moment, is naturally ship he could have earned, £5,000 The seventeenth was a bad one After seeing how ghastly Brown we would spend that night and inclined to penalise as obstruction. In the argumentative stage, but with the greatest ease by playing for him, but he came up again full looked I couldn't see how he could perhaps many more in cells.

New Zealanders yield to none in anything that promises to give en- exhibition games in America. of spirit. Brown was game. Ho live. Admitted that I was the We all seemed reconciled to that their admiration for the game of couragement And Assistance to the Hagen's "Bag." was taking a lacing now. I had centre of a cheering, excited happening when at last word came Rugby. Where they differ from the many promising young golfers in・・・ Walter Hagen gathered much him tottering about the ring, but crowd, bat my mind was perfectly young Johnny was all right. The authorities in the homeland of this country ought to be support more than that every time he took his pluck kept him going, and in- 'cool. I wasn't the type to go off punches he had taken. on the head Rugby is that they feel that experl- ed. There are, for example, a the British Open, so, maybe, It is stinctively he shielded himself the deep end with cheers. I was had the effect of knocking him into ence should be allowed to assist number of assistant professionals | a little superfluous to mention that from a finishing, blow. In the thinking rationally.

a state of coma. He must have in the evolution of Rugby whose progress is being retarded Cotton or one of our other re- nineteenth, he held on, and I was taken to my dressing-room been actually out on his feet beas ia cricket, golf, tennia, because they are not given ade- presentatives won the American literally pushed him off, but with a mind filled with anxiety, fore I landed the finishing punches. could not finish him.

(Continued in next Column.)

(quate opportunities for practice. title ho could immediately embark Some, I am told, are not allowed on a tour that would immensely to use the courses to which they benefit his pocket. I agree that jare attached, so that from this rules and regulations are very point of view alone the suggested necessary on trips to other lands; but are not ruling bodies overdo- ing the inclusion of trouble-making and all other games, and, where an clauses? The Australian sticket. Improvement suggests itself, it team were heavily fettered, but ahould be judged on its merits and that did not prevent Don Bradman not construed as an attack on the from doing very much as he lik Jaws, of the Medes and. Persians. ed. The Australians were by When Rugby becomes the national courtesy called amateurs, but our Winter game of Britain as it is of Ryder. Cap men are out-and-ou! New Zealand It may be expected professionals, and it hardly ap that the wider popular interest will pears right they should be hedge- demand reforms. Till then we live about by rules that will financial❤ in hope.

ly affect them.

nega.

Suddenly Change My Tactics. An opponent can be easily de- ceived into revealing his, tricks when allowed to attack. He also wears away a great amount of his energy by his own movement, in addition to suffering from the effects of counters properly land- ed. Then, when I thought I knew everything about him, I went in to have the fight.

Some men puzzled me longer than others some took longer to alow down than others.

In the ner.

I learned afterwards that many Young Johnny Brown was very in the hall thought that Brown, fast and for five rounds he dane by reason of his aggressiveness, ed in and out, with me slouching and showy work in the earlier about on flat feet, neldom rising..rounds.had.at-the-beginning-of-the- on my toes. Then, in the sixth, I last round a lead on points. thumped him hard on the head | He answered the final bell in the with both hands. In the seventh belief that he only needed to hang I repeated this, and Johnny's nose on to get a draw at least. I elns- Etreamed the ruby. I thought, ased with him, and the stagger of I went back to my corner, that his legs told me how weak he was. Brown would not last much long I punched him to face and body. er. I know the extent of the force He tried to fight back, but it was behind some of the punches I hopeless. I rained a hail of blown landed. I know that they hurt, on him, and he fell back to the

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