COOK DISQUALIFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1922, Page 5

COOK DISQUALIFIED.

HUNG ON LIKE A LIMPET, j BECKETT FIGHT GOES SIX j ROUNDS. ! - J (By fable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 10. (ieorge Cook, the Australian heavyweight champion, was disqualified in the sixth round of his fight against <loe Bocke.tt. the English heavy-weight champion. In the first round the Australian was repeatedly guilty of holding, and the referee stopped the fight and warned him. In the second round Cook twice landed a left to the face. Jn consequence of a right, to the point from Beckett, Cook had to close for safety. In the third j Beckett just escaped a left while both i men were on tiie ropes. Beckett landed a i left hook to thi» chin ajid Cook got a • right home. In this round he wae further warned for holding. At the commein.«inrnl. of the next round the referee warned both the competitors. BeckeVt landed a right and left and received a.n J Tlpperciit. Cook was again warned for holding. Beckett had Cook groggy in the sixth round. The Englishman landed four hard rights to the jaw. Cook was then very groggy and hung on like a j limpet, the referee eventually disqualifyI ing him.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)