BOXING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12078, 18 October 1933, Page 7

BOXING

NEXT WEEK'S TOURNEY. HAMILTON TEAM' COMING. According to ;kl\ K> roeoi'iul >' os " |ay by ihe Gisborne Roxing Association, a (earn of five amateur boxers from Hamilton "ill coninerc at ihe local tournament on I hnrsday ol next week. Ihe visitors v. ilj Ire Hepburn. a heavyweight : Maxim ami Ross, middleweigius ; and Eoulds and Smith lightweights. On medical ad vie-'. Hilly MeKa.'-. will not take part in the Show Meek tournament, ii was announced yester, day bv the chairman of Ihe Gisborne ryV.'O.ut ive. The New Zealand fly Weigh f amatent champion is srdl siiftering from the arm injury be contracted affile Australian and New Zealand championship' ioumatneni, and has been recommended no! to submit the arm to strain ol training and fighting lor a i least a foi l night.

BILLY McKAY'iv EIGHT. east exciting contest. Writing from Sydney io the Ne w Zealand Sportsman, “K.C.T." thus describes the appearance of HillV McKay against ihe \ ictorian nil d Australian flyweight champion-. ‘•lf. Cooper, 7.10, \ ictorian and Australian champion, outpointed Billy McKay. 7.13. of Gisborne, No"' Zealand, alter a hard struggle. deKay made the pace from the opening hell, hut every time he delivered a light cross lie ran into a right counter to the point. A -solid one in tfio opening session steadied him considerably ; Cooper, however, was kepi stripping along fit a merry speed. I' l tlie second round the tussle culminated in a hotly to-e-io-foo slugfost, and the lads were, af it hammer and tonus when the hdi went. Cooper took the points in the third round, there having boon little between them in the first, two terms. McKay won the 1 >st round, but the decision went ngain'd him. “The liiile hull-ant from Gisborne is a strong and aggressive type, willing to mix it at fill times, lie thought lie had won all right, but he was mistaken. No one would doubt the decision to Cooper, lull: there, was not much between them. Gisborne boy wrenched his arm in the second round in delivering a right to the jaw his arm becoming entwined with Cooper's lefi. Me Kay intends to take on the- pugilistic business more, seriously Hinn in the past.’'

STR IB LING'S FATAL MISHAP TOOK IT CALMLY AIACON (Georgia) Oct. 10. "Well, kid, I gucs,s this means tin more road work for me” exclaimed the heavyweight, boxer. Young Btriblmg, to a young woman who assisted him after a road smash, bait destroyed his left foot. Stribbng was returning on a motor I'cysle, Hate from a golf club, when a car, swerving to avoid another, struck his cycle, almost culling oil his left I'onfc twith the fender. A trained nurse who was driving by made to imirniqnot from her georgette shawl. Strihling asked her .iti' Hie foot was off and she replied that it was hanging by a. few shreds of skin. A. passing milk truck took him to hospital, where he died. The driver who collided with him offered his blood, if transfusion were needed. Slrihling said the accident Avas unavoidable.