TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT

Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 7

TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT

PATRICK ACCOUNTS FOR CALTAUX " PUGILISTIC MASSACRE " Press Association —By Telegraph-—Copyright .SYDNEY, Nov. 4. . A fvovid of 15,000, the largest at the Sydney Stadium for 10 years, on Saturday night, saw the Australian light and welterweight champion, Vic Patrick, beat the New Zealand welter-weight champion, Vio Caltaux, by a technical knock-out in the eighth round. i .- The bout was almost a pugilistic massacre, but Caltaux put up a piucky showing; and for a few moments in the third round it looked as if he might win. He caught Patrick with a solid right to the jaw, but the ropes saved Patrick from going to the canvas. Caltaux Attempted io follow up his advantage, but the Australian recovered quickly, and for the remainder of the hout was all over a winner. In the second round Patrick, with a left swing, opened an old cut over Caltaux's right eye. He concentrated on this injury so effeqtively that in the fifth round that eye was completely closed, and Caltaux's face was covered with blood. At this stage, the New Zealander began to cover up, and at the end of the round the referee, Mr Joo Wallis, asked him if h# were willing to stop the fight- Caltaux refused, but during the next three rounds was punished unmercifully, so that the bout was stopped and the decision awarded to Patrick.

Caltaux, at 10.6-i, had a weight advantage of 7|lb over Patrick, who was superior in height and reach. The New Zealander was beaten so severely because he, too, frequently attempted to box the scientific and hardrhitting Patrick, instead of fignting in his natural! style and carrying the attack to his opponent. When the crowd yelled to the referee to stop the bout in ihe fifth round, Caltaux cried to the crammed house. " Shut your mouth." His chief second, Mr Jack Dunleavy, one of the most experienced boxing tutors in Australia, left Caltaux's cnnier at the end of the fourth round. Dunleavy stated afterward ihat Caltaifx had refused to allow him to a'ttend his injured eye. After the fight Caltaux said: "1 knew my eye would be hurt early, but I believed I could wear Patrick down. I wanted to continue the fight when it was stopped." Caltaux is reported to be seeking a return match with Patrick, but his showing on Saturday night gave no prospect of his being likely to reverse the decision.