"BROADFOOT WINS."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 259, 1 November 1928, Page 16

"BROADFOOT WINS."

VICTORY OVER PARKER. AUCKLANDER CHEERED BY CROWD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. "Broadfoot wins," said Referee Allen Maxwell at the end of the fifteen rounds professional boxing contest, for a purse of £100, between Jim Broadfoot, of Auckland, and Eddie Parker, of Palmerston North, decided in Parker's home town last evening. The Aucklander's win was a popular one, as it had been well earned. There was a good attendance of the public. Broadfoot carried the fight to his opponent in the opening round, and scored ; with lefts and rights to the head. It was the Aucklander's round throughout. Broadfoot was aggressive in the second round and scored to the body and head. Parker landed an effective left to the• body, but Broadfoot took the round on a wide margin. Honours were even in the third round, after g*od, bxfek egpjungjf «| daM gutter*.

Parker had the advantage in the fourth and fifth rounds, Broadfoot missing badly on occasions. Lefts to the Aucklander's body began to tell, but he kept out of reach. Boxing in great style Broadfoot won the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth rounds. The next two were even, both men trading heavy blows. Broadfoot won the twelfth on a small margin, and the next was even. Parker decisively took the fourteenth, scoring constantly with his left to his opponent's body, while his right was sent to the head. Broadfoot clinched frequently to save trouble.

The last round was fought at a very fast pace, and there were exchanges of stinging lefts and rights. It was an even round. The Aucklander received an ovation from the crowd.

HATTON'S CHALLENGE.

Professional featherweight champion of Auckland, Matt Hatton, has issued a challenge to the winner of the Green-Taylor match which is to be decided at Napier on Wednesday next. Both Green, of Australia, and Taylor, of Auckland, are bantamweights, but it is understood that each is willing to concede wei.L't.