ON POINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1937, Page 15

ON POINTS.

BISHOP MAKES GOOD. " ' I DEFEAT QF MARTIN. welter-weight boxing. The welter-weight boxing contest staged at th<> Auckland Town Hall last evening between the Australian welter-weights" Herb -Bishop and Billy Martin, rewarded the Auckland Boxing Association with a laxgr, attendance, and the match proved the best that has been seen thi a season has established himself in the Auckland ring as an attractive, fast twohanded boxer, with, a wonderful defence, and for that reason chief interest centred on his opponent. Bishop fully lived up to thn fine reputation that preceded him He proved himself a clever all-round boxer, with good attacking method, and sound defence. Right through the contest he forced toe pace, with the result that lie olton had Ins opponent hard on the iletence. was very clever at getting in to cmse range, and then with his strajght-driven left he landed at will on !iis opponent's right side. In Hashes Martin was highly spectacular, and occasionally he burst into lively attack, but his fast left rip, which has proved so devastating to other boxer* which have faced him in an Auckland ring, could not get through to the solar pIi'XUK target. A lot. of Bishop's hitting was close to flie barred kidney punch area, and_ he uas warned on a couple of occasions by I lie rci cree. On the other hand Martin i,as a_ iiabit of swinging, his body round in deionsive moves, and to some extent he was a contributor to Bishop's illegal punches. It was in-fighting most of {lie way in the clever manner in which the Australians specialise, and they had often to be broken apart. Even Weights. Both men took the ring at 10.6%, and when they started Martin at once drove hard with left rip*?, and th-en alternated things with a snappy right cross to the head. Bishop took some hard punch as in that round, -which was in Martin's favour. Both men in the next worked into close ranee before firing their shots, and Bishop, with clever body hitting, made it an even roim d. The third saw Martin en the ropes, covering np, while Bishop sent in a fusillade of shots. Martin came off to fight in a frenzied way, but Bishop, cool and resourceful, sent him back, and took the round. After a lot of in-fighting in the fourth Martin began to vary his tactics, rotting his opponent bring the fight to him. and then retaliating. The end of the sixth round was marked s>v a hostile demonstration against the referee, who went to Bishop's corner over r.he kidney hitting question. The next round saw hard mid-ring fighting, and there were lively moments when Martin speeded up. and endeavoured to get on top with hard two-handed hitting. Bishop was showing clever evasion and good (defence. Martin Rallies. After an uneventful eighth, Martin rallied well in the next. They opened up desperately in the tenth, but Martin was driven to the ropes, and had to cover up to weather a storm of shots from Bishop. Martin was now sighting carefully, and driving desperately hard with his left in an endeavour to force a decision. Bishop made the pace right through the eleventh, and in a final, furious round the pair were cheered all,the way. The decision wae a popular one. Bishop's steady and unwavering aggression had carried him through to victory. Martin's defence all the way had been superb, hut defence without sufficient mixture of retaliatory attack does not win matches. Amateur Contests. Flyweight,—S. Stock, 8.6, defeated" K. Killeen, 8,4, on points. Stock outpointed 3 his opponent in the first round, using both hands freely, and driving hard at the body with his right. Killeen fought back pluckily in the second, and used his left well to take the honours of the round. The third round was hard all the way, with Killeen still Scoring well with his left, but in the final round it swung Stocks way for the points decision. Feather-weight.—P. Kelly, 9.4, defeated R. McKay, New Zealand bantam champion. 0.4. on points. The pair boxed with caution and at long range over the first round. Kelly showed aggression in the next round, and with fast two-handed hitting had much the better of it. Kelly carried the third round, but the final one was even, and Kelly got the decision. Tiightweieht.— R. Lyall, 9.7. defeated K. Marshall, 0.6, on points. Marshall, with speed, evasion and ability to hit with both hands, opened well against an opponent who had a big advantage in height, and reach. Lyall, with hard straight rights, landed several times in the next, round, and had the best of it. He drew further ahead on points in the third, and held the advantage to the end. "Welter-weight.—TJ. Woods. 10.5. defeated S. MeWilliams, 10.5. Woods showed the better science of the pair -in file opening round, and used a hard, «tmif:ht. right to the body well. McWillianis had one of his eyes injured, and after a medical man had been called to 'he ringside the contest was stopped, and, Wnods was declared the winner. The officials were:— Mr. T?. Meale (professional). H. W. Brien 'amateur): judtres. Messrs. O. Bush, A. T?. .Tonlin (professional). .T. H. Sloan, S. F. Burke (amateur); time-keeneTs. Messrs. C. Cowan. J. K.« Douglas; official announcer, Mr. W. E. Dervan.