BOXING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 11

BOXING

WON WITH BROKEN ARM. At Hackney, England, a few weeks ago, there was the extraordinary occurrence of a boxer’s winning a contest although he had broken an arm .The boxers engaged were Jimmy Vaughan and Frank Meaefcem. Vaughan fell to the floor midway through the fourth round, but was soon on hip feet again and boxing cleverly .Vaughan won on points. As he was suffering much pain in his right arm. he wont to a doctor cn the Following day. and learned that he had broken his forearm when lie fell to the floor of the ring. “LUCKY TO GET DECISION " Ambrose Palmer got the .shock oi his life at Leichhardt Stadium (Sydney) when Ron Richards, the Queensland born, met him in a 15 two-min-ute round contest; and when at the end Referee Jack Haines gave Palmer the benefit of the doubt there was a terrific outburt of disapproval from a large section of the crowd (says the Sydney “Referee"). There was little doubt, that the contest would attract a’great crowd ■ and while the numbers were not as great as when Palmer defeated Pietro Gecrgi a week before, there must have been somewhere about. £SCO in the house. And everybody got- his money’s worth, for it was, a great struggle for the whole time. If anything, Richards was slightly ahead at the final, ami Palmer was lucky to get the decision.