EXIT FOUCHE!

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 17

EXIT FOUCHE!

WOODS GOT HIM.

FIVE-ROUND DRAMA, i

FRENCHMAN TOOK THE COITN' Perhaps you have heard about Goliatl "how he wae ferocious and wild," just lib Albert's lion. A little chap named. Davi ended hie career—with a stone and Kh..n(thai. "Jolting" Joe Woods w o ul have used different methods, as he demoi fti..ted at the Town Hall last evenini li.mciH Fouche (medical man and Count wan Uoliath to Wood's David, and th inj-roiied wrestling dn.ma ended just a did the original contest, with the big ma >>i his buck. Fouche does not use hi ..riHtocrntic title, but h e took "the count li'.ft evening two fulls to a penalty fall. It was brief but entertaining while i •'■-"•'I- r-oiichp, with his 6ft 'tin and bi '"ilk. lookrtl n Kin lit in contrast to th cnipiictly-inadn Woods, but. an everyim win. 1,,,s ,. VOI . ~,..„[ |ilit . v st ,, n ,, s i- Ilow . Ki.inte mlw.ijh "get the Jhoppei- in th last chapter, oven it they have the bette o the opening exchanges. This particula It nut ccrtninl, wnncl to la. U the form h Nhow-ed amiinst "Lofty" UloniKclil lan wrck, nnd the golden e«Ks went to Wood.the ex-boxer. Fouohe's Opening. Fn»m the Btart Foiiehe wne on top V\ finds wii« held consistently in hcumoi-i lioliln, though ho managed to get in i jnlt. tr> I-oiifhffi t'ncp and a kick in th< wmie pliwp thnt roused l-'onrhe. Wood* ton hail his share of scissors on Fowlw and when Fouche again crime on top wit! a body sciswors he scored with nnothei kick to the fnce nnd then a jolt. Fornix Ci.untpred with an uppercut that mad< «n impression, '11,,. round ended witl V\ niMls breaking dear oi a eecond head Wk. Fouche wae looking tousled am annoyed at the start of the .second, but . 'hold it you can" bout ended with iiirr piking down in a head scineore, and clap I>in« kIiPPH drew- exclamation* of painet nsl "hmpiit. Woods made it a shnri arm eciwHors. but in a second Fouche hac reversed that. Fouche missed with i leg trip nn.l wae held in a body scissor* nnd hi-nd twist, but oame up again tc t/wn Woods nnd apply u head eciasor* Kicking out of that. Joe applied a head lock and Poncho complained. He got ouf of that, but was in trouble again. Hi took a jnlt nnd when he responded Woodi wasn t there. That's the worst of thes* boxer*; thpy can duck. Fouche was helii in a leg scissors and toehold, but hai: VVoode in a head scissors at the gong. Round three— and the drama reallv •tarts. Woods looked mildly surpriseil when he took two jolts in succession col in with ii left, but stopped another Jotjche wae on top and a toehold made Woode nook the ropee. There were eomt more jolts for Woods, but he got back with one that tumbled Fouche—and there he lay. Woods dived on top of the recum■bent Fouche end the fall wae hie I( was a knock-out. Fouch* Qrofty. Fouche came up jrroggily for the fourth and ran into some more trouble. Undci • jolt ho hit the mat again. "Come uc and be hit. ,, urged Woods. He didn't scorn inclined, «o Woode ■ icked him up and u«ed his knee to the chin. "Mustn't " «nid the.roforoe, Mr. Jack McLean. He flirl it again. "Mustn't," said the referee VVoo<« did it a third time. Woode protented, but a penalty fall had been given against Inm nnd once again Fouche was carried to hie corner Fouche still looked sick and under anothur jolt at the mart of the fifth he wont down again. He resisted a press and came up starring to be hit againwent down a second time and then the end came. Wood* added a final jolt, and d " mPed hhn for Double Injured. The amateur boute were marred when K. Double was injured just at the start of a bout Hmw thought to have torn « ligament in hi* cheet. Messrtr. Heald and Browne were the judge* and Mr. W Willinmson acted ae referee. Reeulte werp:— C. Jonee. 0.7. beat T. Harvry, 9.0. on li u T l \ W !f. • , hnrfJ ' ""ting battle, with Jonee hnvfci* the better of the latter round*. J. Aspiri, 11.4, beat B. Knike. 11.10, on points in a willing contest where the contestant* rarely went to the mat. K. Brewer, ».f), wae awarded the decision ngainet R. Double, 10.5, who was Jorcocl out the ropee. P. Irvine 12.2, beat A. Smith, 12.5, in •traight falls without trouble.