BOXING.
REG TROWERN OUTPOINTED. ;
(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, Sunday "?' Bobby Delaney, the lightweight boxing champion of Australia, turned the on Reg Trowern, of Whangarei, fe a'-»' contest before a large crowd at the Winter-" Show Stadium last night. TroS , weighed 10st %lb and Delaney 9st 3? * Delaney started off at a surprising pace' and kept shooting a left hook-to the helf L He also ripped his left to the solar pX : < several times Trowern was-/extremZ: lucky to weather the fifth roundi DelanVv had his man so groggy that Trowern momentarily lowered his guard and De'' laney dropped him for eight seconds It was only Trowern's ability to take'nunishment that enabled him to see; round out. Trowern came strongly in the closing rounds, but Belaney showed skilled ringcraffc and met him %ith / straight lefts and left hooks. . : /.7*° f i The judges agreed in a verdict-for Delaney, but a section of the house'did* not take this kindly. •-..■, ; Jack O'Malley,. heavy-weight.' champion of Australia, will meet Ambrose Palmer • middle-weight champion of the Common- ; wealth, here next Saturday night. . ■ •>
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10
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176BOXING. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 10
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