BOXING BOUT

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 5

BOXING BOUT

A Fatal Knock-out DEATH OF HARRY JOHNS MATCH WITH ARCHIE HT'GHES FOR. LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE WENT 14 ROUNDS (Ter Free* Association). Aucktarn!. October 4. Harry Johns, ivno was knocked out in. tfte 14,1 Vi round ni tho contest with Archie Hughes for the New Zealand lightweight, championship last "isr. and taken to the hospital suffering from concussion died n(. 7 o’clock t-ln?; morning. THE LAST ROT'NT) A previous message lrorn Auckland was as follows: — Tlio brightest boxing witnessed in A nek land i «*r years was staged at L ho Town Hal when two proiessional con tests were staged. An unfortunate occurrence in contneetion with d'e evening’s programme was the admission to hospital of Harry Johns alter being knocked out by Arehio Hughes ill the nisilch for the lightweight championship of New Zealand. In this, other professional contest, a light-heavyweight one. Rill Sullivan. of Hastings, knocked out Petty Officer Arthur Firth, of H.-M.S. Dunedin, in the fifth round, Sullivan weighed 12st. 3lh, and Fir h half a pound more. Sullivan had all the lio’ter of flic contest, using u solid right-cross with tolling effect. Fifth made a game stand, bu; mi, unable t 7 weather the battery of blows rained cn him in the fifth round. In tile title limit Hughes fought as never before, in Auckland, and Johns won only three o r four rounds. Johns was hel >w previous form, and took greaf punishment, in the fourteenth before going to the canvas.