BOXING

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 6

BOXING

COLOURLESS BOUTS

CROWD COUNT ’EM OUT!

(Per Press Association) Wellington, Jan. 24. in a colouVoss display of boxing .in w 1 1 ick scarcely one decent blow was strueK, F. Taylor, of Auckland, ontpontcd T. o rilliths, of Dunedin, over fifteen rounds at the Town Hall to, night. In 11i.o 12lh round the crowd, counted the boxers out. The display given by the amateurs was little more convincing. Tb,o two l olymp'o candidates made suck unsatisfactory showings that tho New Zealand. Boxing Council wll now have to consider whether the.v should be sent, to Amsterdam or not. A. Clcverlov, New Zealand amateur light heavy-weight champion was given tho decision over C. 0. Gardiner, of Christchurch, but the crowd wa so disapointed that they made a hostile demonstration.

A worse fate held J. O’Sullivan, Auckland, the Dominion amateur bantam king, as he was delea'ted by H. Larson, the Wellington champion. The New Zealand Boxing Council decided to-night to hold another try out in private between O’Sullivan and Larsen in order to decide whether oi not O’Sullivan is up to the Olympic standard.