Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
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BACK
 ON BOXING MAP. Phenomenal Showing Of Les Darcy Places Antipodes in Spotlight.

Australia has reappearcd on the
 pugilistic map. The brilliant record of
 Les Darcy, the 21 year old middle
 weight, has showed tn Antipodes
 back in the spotlight of the worlds
 boxing affairs after an absence of
 many years
 Now that Darcy has established him.
 self as world beater, the folks down
 under" have another name to add to
 their already long list of boxing nota-
 bles, which comprises about as clever
 a lot of battlers as ever pulled or a
 boxing glove. The best of the Kan
 garoo boxers, from Peter Jackson. the
 heavyweight, down to Young Griffo,
 featherweight, fought many battles in
 this country, and veteran followers of
 the ring will ever remember the bril-
 liant bouts staged by some of the
 Antipodeans.
 There was Jackson, the ebony -hued
 gladiator, of whom it was said he could
 defeat any heavyweight. in the world And only 8 little way behind the big
 negro were Frank Slavin and Joe Goddard, also hailing from Australia. The middleweight division was rep resented by Bob Fitzsimmons, Jem Hall and Dan Creedon. Fi,zsimmons, after cleaning up all the middle weights, went out of his wieght divi- sion. and defeated Jim Corbett for the heavyweight crown. While Hail and S1CCOOu 0lOH L1tdSuTG uD to F1LZ as a fighter, both carried the goods and held long records of corlking good clashes.
 Tom Tracy, George Dawson and Jim Burgess were the best of the Austral- | ian welters. Heading the featherweight division was Young Griffo; often pro- 1 claimed the cleverest boxer the world has ever known. Whether or not he was entitled to this distinction, it is l indisputable that Grjffo had it on all
 the feathcrwe:ghts of his day. Had he refrained from playing the bright | lights, he would have become l:ing of both the feather and lightweights. Other Kangaroo boxers who won | praise for their sterling ability as l battlers in this country were Tom ! Leeds, Billy Mccarthy, Billy Smith Arthur Walker. Tom Williams. Tim l Haggertv, Otto Gripps, Billy Murphy I and Hook Reyes.
 With the passing of Fitzsimmons and Young Griffo Australia dropped out ot | the big league of champion boxers An l attempt at a comeback was made wher they sent over Bill SQuires. after he had made quite reputation at a 1 Knockout artist at home, but Bill f1iv- vered his first time ont over here when he took the count at the hands | of Tommy Burns in one round.
 | Squires' quick finish as a champion 1 ship contender happened some ter I cars dSO- olDce then Annrlcan DOX- | CTS have been going to Australia tc | show their wares instead of the Aus | tralians coming here.
 | Whether America will have an op- portunity to see Darcy at very early l date is problematical. It is said that | he is headed for the army. If this is | true there is big chance that he may never be seen in the ring over here | Followers Of boxing in this country l have long had a desire to See the clever | Australian and they will be sorelS l disappointed if circumstances prevent him from coming to the United States | Darcy is a Eative of Australia and has just passed his Fist year. Up tc | two years ago he was appreuticed as a blacksmith. He made his ring de. but in 1912 when he stopped Dave | Depens in nine rounds Later in the
 same year he scored his first knockout
 Jimmie Burns being the victim. The past three years Darcy has beer 1 putting 'em away just about as fast as | they faced him. Among the most | prominent of his victims have beer
 Jimmy Clab5y, Eddie McGoorty. Frank | Loughrey, Gus Christie and Fritz Fol- | land. It must be admitted that any 1 scrapper who can trim that bunch is obliged to pack around somethins
 choice in pugilistic way. Jeff Smitf
 and Fritz Holland won decisions oyer l Darcy, but in later bouts both were | defeated decisively by the Australian l It is said of the new boxing marve | that he can hit al any angle, that nc 1 opponent can keep away from him, and | that anybody he can hit he can knock | out. Australians point to Darcy's rec ord as being sufficient to prove these
 statements. It is surely all of that.