BOXING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18486, 14 September 1925, Page 9

BOXING.

HEENEY BEATEN. A DULL EXHIBITION. | (P2ISS ASSOCIATION SELEGEAJI.) GISBOKN'E, September 13. A profcsficnal bozing conte-st between Dick Klnour (France) and Jack Heeney fGiaborno) went the full distance. Tbo bout Uckcd excitement, and wa3 dbtmgTzielied for rrruch innghtinj. The refers, ilr Karolci Ba'ktr, manatrer of tbo >"ew South Wa'cs team, awarded the victory to Elmour, tho decision being greeted with cheers and counter demonstration. Thc Poverty Bay and East Coaat amateur championships were also contested, lecy'ting as follows: Feather-weight—J. Tnrbitt. v Light-weight—O. Fitzmaurice. "WeHer-weieht —W. Robertson. Middle-weight— T. bright. A fifty guinea challenge memorial cup for the. most scientific ooser was awarded to Tuibitt. VERCOE WINS ON FOUL. T8r.52 ASSOCIATION TELEGTIAH.) UIjSNHEIII, September 13. Scheduled for fifteen rounds, the profession fight beiwe-on J>irkie Vercoe, Sst Witb (Marlborough), and Derry Clinton, Sst 111b UV.mcrston North) ended 6omawhat censationally in the ninth round. From th« lirst gon; tho bat*.!e vras- hard and strenuous, the local man having a shade (be better of the exchanges. In the sixth round Vercoe had Clinton almost at his mercy en tho ropes twice, and the gong was a welcome sound to' the Pa-imerston lad. Clinton made a. good recovery, and mixed things in the seventh and eighth. In the ninth both men were fighting fast, and just as the gong sounded, Verccc fell squirming. It did n-.t appear a? though Clinton had hit low with his hands, but apparently his knee, had come into play inadvertently. The referee pronounced the fight over, and after a conference with three doctors, who examined Verooe, gave tho decision against Clinton on a foul. Vercoe was leading on points at the time. In the preliminaries, tho defeat of tho Wellington centre champion. Wis Sather.ey, by a local amateur, Les Hewitson, ca.used some eurprise. Hexitson won ail tho way. AN EARLY KNOCK-OUT. (by cable— press association —copxeight.) (austtialian akd k.z. cable association.) (Received September 13th, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 13. . At the Stidinm Ignacio Fernandez knocked out Bobby Gray in the first minute of a 20rounds contest, several seconds elapsing hobeforo Gray was able to laavo thc ring.