BOXING
BILLY GRIME OUTPOINTEII
(United Press Association.—Copyright) NW YORK, 15th September. At Madison Square Gardens, Honeyboy Fuincgan, the foremost American featherweight, defeated Billy Grime, tha featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight champion of Australia, on point*. Gnme weighed 127%1b and Finnegan
Grime early proved effective at close quarters, but Finnegan bombarded him vrilh rights to the head. In the second round Grimo stumbled against the ropes and Finnegan hit him, the crowd booing. Grime began to tire about the fourth round, and both men then had bleeding faces. The Australian took heavy punishment in the sixth and seventh, as he was trying to recover from his weariness! He then fought madly in the eighth, landing repeatedly on Finnegan'a jaw, and in the ninth and tenth, greatly strengthened, k»d anuch the better of the ""himgrn. ~*
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 9
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