BOXING British Light-Weight Title
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, April 9. Dave Charnley, a 22-year-old Kentish boxer, tonight won the British light-weight title when he outpointed the holder, Joe Lucy, over 15 rounds at Harringay arena in London. It was an aU-in battle between two rugged left-handers. Lucy, the
boxer, started confidently and held Charnley, the puncher, at bay over the first five rounds, but the continuous right and left swings of the non-stop, hard-punching man from Kent gradually told their tale. The further the fight went the more he was ahead.
Charnley had Lucy down for six counts of eight, and was an easy winner at the finish.
First Professional Fight Britain’s 19-year-old Olympic flyweight champion, Terry Spinks, won his first professional fight last night with more than two rounds to spare. The referee stopped Spinks’s sixround contest with Jimmy Loughrey (Derry) after the Irishman came out of a four-fisted mill midway through the fourth round with blood streaming from a bad cut above his left eyebrow.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28250, 11 April 1957, Page 19
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