BOXING

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1925, Page 6

BOXING

MURRAY v. TROWERN. In their recent bout, Trowern put.ap a determined fight against Murray. Opening, the latter led with a couple of light lefts, but Trowern came back with the same weapon hard to the side cf the head. The champion was showing pace, but the Aucklander was boxing coolly. The round was slightly in the champion’s favour. In the second round Trowern scored with both hands to the head, and also landed a good left in the second session, of which he had slightly the better. Trowern caused the champion to miss badly’ with the left in the third, but the Dunedin man slammed a solid left downstairs. A beautiful right by Trowern put the champion down for seven, and he rose groggily. The Aucklander was a trifle over-eager, but scored a heavy right uppercut. The gong was welcome music to Murray. The Aucklander went in to finish matters in the fourth, but Murray unloosed a right, and steadied his man in his impetuosity. It was real fighting in the fifth, both scoring with straight lefts. Murray was flying signals of distress, but he kept the points fairly even with speed and cleverness. Trowern was on his toes all the time, and scored twice with the left in the sixth. Murray got in a solid left to t’D solar plexus, and also scored a couple of light lefts to the face. The seventh was full of snap an.] sparkle. Both used the left to effect, Trowern still hopping about nimbly on his toes. Murray’ appeared the more distressed of the two as they came our for the eight session. The champion made pretty play with the left, and caused Trowern to miss with the same weapon. The Aucklander did some beautiful ducking and dodging here, causing the champion to miss badly on several occasions. The ninth saw the ehampion pile on points with the left, but the Aucklander evened up with the same weapon with a couple which had steam behind them. It was fast and clever boxing, and the crowd were enjoying it. They roughed it in the tenth till Murray landed a solid right downstairs. Both plied the left to the face, but Murray forced the pace and scored well with left rips to the body before the gong went. In the eleventh Trowern sparkled up, and landed two good straight lefts in succession. Murray made the Aucklander miss badly with the right, but the challenger came back and rattled the Dunedin man with a couple of solid left swings to the side of the head. The round closed amidst hearty applause. The twelfth saw Murray score a light left, and miss badlv with the right. The champion caught the Aucklander with a left hook and toppled him over, but it was more a stumble than the result of the blow. The “Devil’s Round’’ saw Trowern dash in with the left to the face, and he scored again later with the same weapon. They were tiring new, and a good deal of the steam had departed from the exchanges. They fought toe to toe in the second last round, in which Murray had the best of the exchanges, the challenger’s best work being on defence, in which some clever ducking figured. Trowern, realising that he was behind on points, attempted to even up in the last round, but the champion, by superior speed and ikigcraft shaded his less experienced opponent, and foiled all the efforts of the determined young northerner to land a decisive blow. The judges’ verdict went to Murray, who thus retained the title.