BOXING.

Grey River Argus, 6 April 1914, Page 3

BOXING.

PELKY KNOCKED OUT

BY A SECOND-RATER

(By. Electric Telejdapht-Cor.yright.).

\Per Fres,s Association. j ■*

SYDNEY, April 5. Lang- knocked out Pelky ■ in. the nineteenth - round.

.' SUMMERS'S DOWNiFALL. TWO* MINUTES OF 'SENSATION The falling of Johnny Summers 'at Sydney Stadium was bewildering, picturesque, and sensational. ■' Ordinar ily (relates the Bulletin's t sportingwriter), there is no more .cautious' beginner tblan Summers.He feels his •nan before mixing it and if his man tries to mix it the man finds Johnny an elusive sprite. But on thii occasion Johnny was in a hurry. He had evidently made ' up .his mind that McCoririirk would outbox him if it went twenty rounds, and had determin, eel to overwhelm McC. in short order. At trie word he bounded across the ring*, and fell upon his' enemy like a long street full of tigers. lie smote with both fists. He hurled all his wejght into the contact, and pounded the hostile person right across the ring, with showers of body blows, varied by a few to the head! which McCormiGk covered desperately with his gloves' It was the ropes thatstopped McCdrmick's wild retreat". Bringing up against them he r,ebound ed, and strove Jo clinch. Summer* swung him round, threw him away, cast hint off, implied by. (his manner that he had no use for him.- and followed up> McCormick uncovered his head and tried to • smite. He was despised and rejected. * He tried to hang on and he might as, well have tried to drive a nail into ' the side of the east wind and suspend .himself thereto. But the fiercest cyclone must blow itself out, and so did lohnny. And the moment he subsided into a calm McCormick, angered by ill-usage arid aroused by the way the audience urged Johnny to knock his head off and throw' it through the window, ; assumed the offensive. He met a right swing in the chest that nearly knocked him down, but recovering he sprang again, * and let fly a double broadsids as he did. Then it was Summers who. broke ground while he gathered steam for another cyclone.' He backed away till the northern ropes blocked him, and McCormick hurled himself at him amidst much pandemonium. Summers is most dangerous on the ropes, and some historic bashes were* exchanged. Dropping- his fists he played for the body, and McCormick gasped a s if a piano had fallen on him". But all the same he never stopped hitting. Two lefts landed on Summers' s mouth. Then McCormick was standing in close and seeing Johnny's' face unpro lected drove a right short-arm jolt right to ,the point. , The recipient pitched forward on to his knees # and gloves. We was knocked unconscious, and still had "enough .in him to protect himself as he fell. He came down and tried to stoo on his gloves md knees, but everything faded out md he again pitched forward till his forehead touched "the floor a' few inches from wher^ Waldemar Holbers: h-^d gone down, all out, before Hhfghip Mehpgan. But HolbergTffH 1 forward nn ,his chin. Summer on his forehead The Toar, ceased. A -silence crashed dnvn on tb" Stadium .and the' voice if c .~^t call ; ner the count soiithWl srtmethin<r akin to a ..to&n hall, clock. Vobqdv believed that the mifhrv Sum •"■«;. the create"* 1 ring general of them" nM. wa^* out. He was takinn- all tV -pittite he- could get. they sdid. ButtvV>p.n the voice cf Sroti- hoorrtpri :t fM«rht" they roared tha^ We had al'oi<lv takf" i washed lot of r^rjit* 1 ' ■\nr{ qtionirin't -overdo it; '"Nine" "">">p % ond tho man on the floor w.i<i -All tiVin"- h-PD""; tof r"sp!tn, 'Pirr>^ <>f/»t+ looVrd ?T>d- hpsita^od for '*>« fr^rfi,nn of. a «;oroncl bp^ rp he c^jo if t~\ n ti» of whr'^^vpr h^ j di^ say f^ v •■»!.. Vftirn M'^c HrOWti"' 1 'Tt tH° r«iilti *i»- I'j1 'j of *hi* hoot. TVior" nr" -'"x" 1 iM'fiil din^OPS amO"Trjr* thP S^nr'Mirn habitues, His seconds dragged (Sum \