BOXING.

Gisborne Times, 21 April 1928, Page 11

BOXING.

WAS HE “ROBBED”?GRIME! IN AMERICA. LAMPE WAS KNOCKED OUT. NEW YORK, April 7. Billy Grime, on returning from Baltimore after liis fight with Lampe, announces that he is through with boxing for one month. He needs an operation to . remove a hit of cartilage from the nose and also to rest a torn rib muscle. , Grime believes , that poor breathing has hampered him in his recent fights. His manager, Miller, advised an operation while the injured rib is enforcing his idleness. Grime bitterly resents the Lampe decision. The Australian insisted that he knocked out, Lampe in the third round and that tile claim for a foul was made to prevent the referee counting out the American. The argument gave Lampe three to four minutes in which to recover. Grime indignantly denies fouling Lampe, declaring that he struck a clean blow to the .mid-section! Grime’s manager frankly declares that Grime was robbed of the decision because of the Baltimore desire to favor the local fighter. Beginning the sixth round Grime’s side was bothering _ him and caused tho loss of the decision.

NOTES AND NEWS. “Kid” Socks,. English bantam, is to com© to Australia: ..to box Billy McAlister;’ bantam champion, at the Sydney Stadium. • •>. It has been arranged for Johnny Curley, English featherweight, and Paul Demsky, Australian lightweight, to box at the Sydney Stadium to-night: