BOXING AND BOXERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 14

BOXING AND BOXERS

BROMWIOH AND MAXWELL. Allan Maxwell, who met Peter Cook at Palmerston North last night, is matched to box Alf Bromwich, who beat Gault in Auckland last week. The match will take place at Taumarunui' on the eVening of Labour Day. H AGERT Y IN HOSPITAL. Jim Hagerty, the' lightweight champion of New Zealand, is in the Ashburton Hospital sufferirig from rheumatism. His match with Peter Cook at Gisborne has been cancelled. HANNAN TO MEET COOK. Billy Hannan, who fought a draw with Hagerty on the West Coast recently, has been arranged with to take Hagerty's place, and he will be Cook's opponent instead. These lads are well matched, and Gisborne sports should witness a real good encounter. "BARNEY" IRELAND INJURED. Word has been received at Waipukurau this week that "Barney" Ireland, the well-known pugilist, had met with an accident whilst out shooting near Wellingford. No details .of the accident wero available, except that Ireland had been shot in the foot. SHUTT v. PENROSE. The Timaru Association is trying to arrange a match between Shutt, New Zealand and Australasian champion, and J. Penrose, who represented New Zealand .at the Australasian championships at Sydney last year. If the match comes off the bout will take place at the end of the month. HOLBERG DEFEATS PUIE. Waldemar Holberg showed remavkably well before a packed house at the Brisbane Stadium some days ago in his contest with the crack Queensland lightweight, Harry Puie, whom he knocked out in the 6th round of a fast and exciting f contest. SUMMERS AND EVERNDEN. A v^ry important match was made at the Stadium last week, when Johnny Summers, England's champion welterweight, and holder of the Lonsdale belt, and his hard-hitting countryman, Arthur Evernden, signed articles to meet at 10.7 ringside this Saturday night, for the championship of the British Empire and £100 a-side. PICATO DEFEATS YOUNG NIPPER. Frank Picato (lOst 71b) defeated Young i\ipper (lOst 51b) at Melbourne Athletic Pa.vilion last week in 14 rounds. Picato made the> pace very hot in the eighth round, when Nipper began to hold out signals of distress. He was scoring most blowß, but Picato was beating him badly for stamina. Picato struck Nipper in the groin, and the Englishman hopped round the ring for a few moments, appealing to the referee. His opponent meanwhile stood off. Early' in the thirteenth round, when Nipper was having a torrid timo, he apparently slipped to the boards. Shortly after he repeated this trick to evade a right uppercut, and the crowd hooted. Not much of the fourteenth round had expired when Nipper again complained of being hit low. Hostilities were suspended, and on Dr. O'Hara deciding that Nipper had not been hit in the groin, or if he had he was not injured, the tefcxee declared iv favour of Picato.