BENNY LYNCH BEATEN
After Uvfl hours of stormy argument following the weigh-in, Benny Lynch (Glasgow), flyweight champion of th 3 world, was beaten on points by Jimmy Warnock, the flyweight champion of Ireland, over 15 rounds at Celtic Park, Glasgow, last month.
Warnock thus confirmed the victory he gained recently at Belfast. Lynch's title was not at stake. The decision, when given by Mr. Arthur Myers, of Manchester, was greeted by howls of wrath from the Glasgow spectators and by shrieks of joy from thousands of Irishmen who had come over from Belfast for the occasion.
Warnock himself seemed a trifle surprised by the verdict and was overjoyed.
The match was first proposed under championship conditions, but was altered because .the British Boxing Board of Control "declined to sanction a title fight between Lynch and the Irishman. They insisted on the fulfilment of their eliminating competition, and that Warnock should first meet Peter Kane, of Golborne.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 15, 17 July 1937, Page 23
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