BOXING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 19 August 1938, Page 16

BOXING

♦ WORLD LIGHT WEIGHT TITLE ARMSTRONG WINS FROM AMBERS BOUT LASTS FULL FIFTEEN BOUNDS (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTttIOHTJ (Received August 18, 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 17. Henry Armstrong (9st 81b), already holder of the world welter-weight and feather-weight titles, gained the decision over Lou Ambers Ost 8ilb) in a 15-round bout for the light-weight boxing title of the world. Armstrong knocked Ambers down for the count of three in the fifth round, and again for the count of eight in the sixth round, when he tried vainly to land a finishing blow; Ambers won the seventh and twelfth rounds on a foul, and the eleventh ori a low blow. Armstrong was superior in the opening rounds', but in the third Ambers fought him toe to toe, and, rallying in the fourth, knocked Armstrong’s "mouthpiece with a savage right. After exchanging terrific punches, the men finished the ninth round with honours even. Ambers retreated in the tenth, and Armstrong continued to beat him severely. However, in the thirteenth round Ambers surprisingly rushed from his corner and drove Armstrong

round the ring with a barrage of lefts and rights, causing his knees to buckle and his mouth to bleed. Armstrong resumed the offensive in the fourteenth, and the final round found both men slogging madly in an attempt to land a- knock-out. The advantage was with Ambers. They continued to fight 10 seconds after- the bell before the referee could part them. There was a crowd of 18,000. PROFESSIONAL BOUTS AT WELLINGTON (PBBSI A.MOCUTIO* TILlOBSlt.) WELLINGTON, August 18. Tiger Parks, a negro boxer who Is now resident In Wellington, gave further proof of his ability by beatipg Bill Parris,

of Wellington, on a technical knock-out In the eighth round of a professional IBround boutL at the Town Hall to-night. After Parris bad taken a lot out of himself by nimble side-stepping and ducking. Parks took the aggressive in the seventh round. He followed up two light rights with a terrific blow to the head, which opened a big gash above his opponent's left eye. Parks dealt out unmerciful punishment in the eighth round, and when he had his opponent out on bis feet the , referee stopped an uneven contest. In the second professional contest. Clarrie Rayner. of Blenheim, light-weight champion of New Zealand, knocked out Allan Brown, of Fetone. in the first rrund. The champion bit his man at will and eventually put him down for the full count with a right cross to the bead.