BOXING
BAKSI BEATS WOODCOCK BOUT STOPPED IN SEVENTH ROUND (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 15 Joe Baksi, the American heavy-weight, beat Bruce Woodcock, the European , champion in an unofficial bout at the I Harringay Arena, to select a challenger to the world champion. Joe Louis. The reteree stopped the fight in the seventh round From the start. Baksi set the pace, raining blows on the Englishman. Although he did not appeal to be putting all his weight into them. Baksi wore Woodcock down, and by the fifth round the latter’s right eye was almost closed. Woodcock fought back in the fifth round, but could not maintain his resist-
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25161, 17 April 1947, Page 8
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