BOXING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 3

BOXING.

McDonald defeats galloway.' BLENHEIM, July 27. Laehie McDonald, of Dunedin, defeated Call Calloway, _ of Blenheim, on a technical knock-out in a. fifteen lound professional bout on Saturday night. The fight went practically the full distance, and all but tw r o or tbiee rounds ended in McDonad’s favour. In the fifteenth "round Calloway was flored. He

could have been up at five, but stayed on one knee till the count of rune, { when he resumed the fight. Within a half a minute of the final gong he aorain went down and this time was too slow on regaining his feet. One glove was still on the floor when the referee reached the count “Out. Though outclassed by a stronger and heavier . man, Calloway put up a good perform- . cincG and took a tremendous amount ot j punishment-, always smiling. He was warmly cheered, on leaving the ung.

HEENEY TO MEET COOK. LONDON, July 26. “Sporting Life” says that T. Heeney, of New. Zealand, has been matched with George Cook, Australia, at the Empire tournament at Wembley on August 9. The contest, though only of ten rounds, will practically, decide the heavy-weight championship of Australia and New Zealand.

DEFEAT OF CARPENTIER. NEW YORK, July 25. Motion pictures publicly shown of the Tunney-Carpentier fight reveal the fact that the blow in the fourteenth round was net a foul. BOUT IN SYDNEY.

SYDNEY, July 27. At the Stadium Harry Young defeated George Tosh, knocking him out in the third round. NEWBERRY DEFEATS NIVEN. MELBOURNE, July 27. Jim Newberry knocked out Jack Niven in the tenth round.