ISSUE TO BE DECIDED

Evening Star, Issue 23349, 19 August 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)

ISSUE TO BE DECIDED

BOESCH WANTS FORSTER AGAIN ONE WIN APIECE [By Hooker.] Before leaving Dunedin for Wellington, Paul Boesch informed the writer that nothing would please him more than a third, bout with Frank Forster. In their first meeting at Hamilton Forster won by a fall, and on that occasion Boesch contends that the referee, who had agreed to count three before awarding a fall, did not do so, and he was pinned when he was in a position of defence. So far as the match at Dunedin was concerned, Boesch, who wrestled at a very fast pace all the way, reckoned that after gaining the equalising fall in the seventh round he was rarin’ to go, and that, as Forster se.emed to be tiring, he was determined to maintain the offensive throughout the eighth in an attempt to gain a fall or win on points. He was quite content in this match to let Forster make full use of his undoubted! strength, realising that he had to pin Ins hopes on speed and science, and those who saw the contest will agree that Boesch has those qualities aplenty. Boesch, although no little fellow, is one of the lighter men of the present contingent, despite the fact that he actually tips the scales at 16.4. In some of his matches this season he has come back strongly after facing up to a severe gruelling, and he proved that by the vigorous way he wrestled in the closing stages of Monday’s match. < He took some time to retaliate when the Springbok elected to use a straightout punch, but concerning the latter’s disqualification—an ending which was pot unexpected so far as the public was concerned —he expressed the opinion that F’orster .brought this upon himself. As to the “ ninth ” round, Boesch expressed regret that he had been sufficiently riled to “ let himself go,” but ho held that, even though the gong had gone, he could hardly be expected to forget what had brought about this ending without some little desire to get his own back. So, there are all indications of a real needle match when Boesch goes in against the solid Springbok at their next meeting, and the former’s only wish w'as that it would be in Dunedin. Boesch has always been an admirer of the refereeing of Mr Frank Anderson, whom he classes as “ tho best in New Zealand.” Mr Anderson, says Boesch, is always impartial, he is always w'here he is needed, and when, contrary to the rules, a man is being pitched oyer the ropes, Mr Anderson makes it his business to protect that man.