ANOTHER WIN FOR FRANK ELLIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 15

ANOTHER WIN FOR FRANK ELLIS.

Frank Ellis (Bst 13£lb), the New Zealand feather-weight crack, and Watty Austin (Bst 131b), put up one of the most brilliant twenty-round battles that have been witnessed here; and it says much for the quality shown by the Maorilander that Mr. Mick Lunn's verdict in his favour was almost unanimously endorsed (says Sydney Referee's Brisbane correspondent). For the first ten rounds Ellis did all the forcing, Austin having to resort to every stop and block in his extensive repertoire to beat the attack of his opponent. Here and/ there Watty took a hand, and it must' have caused him some surprise, as it did to the spectators, to find that in this department of the game Ellis was able to cut even with him. Then for six rounds Ellis seemed to weaken, and he broke ground" bo frequently that the scores began to move in Austin's, direction.' The last four rounds saw him back again in the firing-line, however, and with Austin battling with unwonted vigour to keep things coming his way, it became one of the most ex- j citing, as it had previously been one of the cleverest battles that the heart could desire. Ellis certainly endorsed the good opinion formed of him on his performance against George Taylor.