BOXING.
RICHARDS DEFEATS SABATINO.
(Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day
The return fight between Ron Ricjiards, 11.11, and Atilio Sabatino, 11.0, at the Sydney Sports Arena last night, resulted in Richards winning on a technical knock-out in the tenth round.
A. vast crowd witnessed a stirring contest, which was fast and even, both men taking severe punishment. Richards never fought better, using both hands to his opponent’s head and body. Sabatino, whose eye was damaged, was compelled to dance round the ring to escape the onslaught, but himself became aggressor from the fifth to the eighth round, when he looked a winner, but Richards staged a thrilling comeback in the ninth and tenth,-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 43, 30 November 1938, Page 2
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