SAVAGE EASILY KNOCKED OUT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 5

SAVAGE EASILY KNOCKED OUT

A NAPIER HEAVYWEIGHT FIASCO

<»I TELEGRAPH—ritESS ASSOCIATION.)

■■ mi.' NAPIER, 28th October. • The Municipal Theatre at Napier was well filled on Saturday evening when the Napier Boxing Association provided a varied programme, the star Hem being a professional contest between Tom Heeney, pf Gisbarue, and Jim Savage, of Wanganui. The latter s claim to- celebrity was based on a statement .that he was ex-champion or -India, and that he had lasted twelve rounds with Bombardier Wells in 1917 When Savage entered the ring a' plenitude of tattooing on chest and arms attracted ..the. attention 1 of the spectators, but once the .contest started his claims suddenly ended. At- the outset it. was evident, that he was no vp i» X! °r H? eney- He sbaped a WfcT? ovlce > and having been twice knocked down, was finally counted cut ere the first, round ended: The spectators were disgurtcd at having one more crTdTT^ fi(ISCO- Pkced t0 the accredit of the game, and questions were for misleading the local association It stated that the purse was for £ICO on a sixty-forty basis. ■--•-. In contradistinction, to: the professjonal contest, Hh e amateur programme was reaily first-class, and the General arrangements were all that could-be 61 six rounds each .were Secided:-^ «:* fl? <^ aPier). iOst, beat W w-Tlv^ Hastln? s)- lOst. This' decision Z7 hf yn \f cil cd ' as the Hastings rounds t6 be£t°fthelaßt °»4 101b beat D. M'Kenrie (Napier), 9st tJiTT?> COT/ el tl in -tbe leer had the better of the closing stages. Tom-Donovan (Napier), Bst 12ib, beat C Lane (Hastings), Bst Blb