BOXING

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1924, Page 6

BOXING

GENERAL NOTES.

j (By “Looker-on.”)

Secretary C., Parfitt reports that nominations are coming in fairly well for the tournament, to be held in the Miners’ Hall, Runanga on October 4. Nominations, which close on September 27, will be taken for fly, bantam, light and welter weights. INCOMPETENT JUDGING The cablegrams have told us of some of the strange scenes at the boxing confests at the Olympic Games. Below are given the red-hot impressions of Mr. B. Bennison, as these appear in the London Daily Telegraph of July 21

“On Friday night, following the small riot of the previous day, when the English referee, Mr. T. G. Walker, bad to be smuggled out of the building to escape the violence of a howling, foaming mob, Hany Mallin, the London policeman, took, the ring against a French middle-weight named Brousse. In each of the three rounds it was plain, even to those with an elementary knowledge of boxing, that Mallin, barring an accident, was bound to be the winner. By comparison", Brousse was a novice ; very crude, and with a flagrant weakness for holding ami doing things only a rough-and-ready boxer will do. The Frenchman had little oi’ no idea of how to hit straight; always was he severely agricultural. Only in a brawl would I favour his chances ; but to the consternation of those able to discriminate between an artist and a clodhopper the verdict of two of the three judges went to Brousse, and the Frenchman automatically became the winner. “I do not allege that the two gentleman who declared for Brousse had only eyes for the French youth, or that they were in the least degree partisan ; but I do say without any sort of qualification that they blundered egregiously and in a manner so palpable as to suggest that they were not qualified to act as judges of any boxing contest.

‘‘One of them was an Italian, the other a Belgian : the third, a. South African, plumped for Mallin. Before the decision was made known, Mallin, having pulled off his gloves, exposed his chest and invited the officials to look at it. Mallin had been bitten: No heed was taken of his gesticulations : there was such a riot of noiso and clatter that he could not make himself heard, and away he went to the dressing-rooms, a very sick and sorry man, as you may suppose, for he knew l —we all knew —that he had not only won with ever so many points to spare, but there was the bite, plain for everybody to see, on his chest.

“•Mr. Galver, secretary of the British Boxing Association, was for protesting at once, bfit Mr. John Douglas, together with Mr. Vai Barker, were all for peace. But the Americans and the Swedes, so incensed were they at what had happened, threatened to withdraw their teams if the incident was allowed to be passed over. I sought out Mallin, and I requested that I should see for myself whether the Frenchman had employed his teeth. "There on his breast were the purple marks of a bite, and I was assured by the medical gentleman who had been called in io examine Mallin that Brousse had been guilty of savagery. We were all terribly shocked, and I personally am now absolutely convinced that until we are guaranteed competent referees and judges there can be no place’ for boxing in the Olympic Games.