BOXING
MCKAY’S DEBUT AS A PROFESSIONAL KELLY BEATEN ON POINTS fracas association tcleoeam.) GISBORNE, May 29. Making his professional boxing debut, Brian McKay (Hastings) outpointed Percy Kelly (Auckland) in a 10-round contest on Saturday. Kelly’s punching capacity was expected to prove decisive, and halfway through the fight he seemed the likely winner, but-his opponent began to rally in the seventh round and, kept it going through the rest of - the distance, overcoming his early deficit and satisfying the referee, to whom the decision was left by the Judges. McKay gave a clever exhibition, and unbalanced Kelly by going in close in the late rounds, the Aucklander being unable to score with his damaging right.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 13
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