BOXING

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1925, Page 3

BOXING

PARKER BEATEN.

BY

MACDONALD.

Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 11. In a professional fifteen rounds contest, for a purse of £l5O, Lacli.e MacDonald (Otago) defeated Eddie Parker (Hastings) on points to-night-The fight was ver -' evcn UUtil t * le last round, when Parker was down for three seconds. A WIN FOR RING. [Reuter Cablegram.] LONDON, August 10. In a fifteen rounds contest, Charlie Ring (Australia) beat Vanthof, the Dutchman, who was disqualified i-1 i“C seventh, round for hitting low.

Len Johnson, a coloured middleweight, of Manchester, outpointed Charlie Ring the Australian middleweight at Premierland recently. Tho winner is a son of a well-known oldtime fighter, and is said to be most promising. On a former occasion Ring really beat Johnson, who at one time during the contest asked for the towci to be thrown in. Still Johnson was declared the winner. The. referee on this occasion is identical with the one who gave Cook the verdict o\ er Heeney, when, according to all reports that came through, Heeney should have been proclaimed winner.

The promising Newcastle welter weight, Fred Brock, gained a points decision ever Harry Casey (Queensland) at Newcastle Stadium. The contest was marked by a lot of hard body punching. The Queenslander narrowly missed with vicious right swings. A rally took place in the 11th round, and from then on the fight became much more vigorous and exciting. A number of Brock’s body blows landed too far round to gain points, but they must have caused a lot of damage. Brock’s defence was too good, and Referee Fred Baker's points’ decision in his favour was correct. This makes Brock', fourth successive win since his “come back’’ three months ago.

GENE TUNNEY, NEW YORK APPRECIATION. After defeating Tom Gibbons, Goes Tunney has found a great crop of ad mirers in New York. They regard bin u« tho ino-r I rmidable of all the rivals for Dempwyerow.i, moat of them nutting him 'n front of Harry Will, Here fob i» seme recent a-ommente. by one writci:- That. New York finally i> i.i a fair way to realise a world’s Ifieavy weight champion was evidenced in no uncertain manner by Gene Tunney’s brilliant performance against Tom Gibbons. Tunney is a native born and bred New Yorker, a product of Greenwich Village. He is of Irish-American parentage, and celebrated his 27th birth day only 10 days before his sensationa victory over Gibbons. His performance against the St. Pau veteran was little short of remarkable. He outclassed Gibbons in every department. Tom never had a look-i i. Aside from the first and eighth rounds which might have been called even, Tunney had the better or every session He outboxed, outspeeded, outpunehed and out-generalled Gibbons from the start.

Tunney in his present form, would bo worth a good bet against Dempsey. Jack is the type of fighter that needs plenty of work to maintain his highest degree of proficiency. The Manassa Mauler cannot afford to remain inactive for two aid three years at a stretch. Protracted periods of pugilistic idleness aided and abetted by “soft living’’ are hound to sap Dempsey of a lot of his effectiveness. Tunney is almost ns big as the champion. Gene measures lift lin in altitude, the same girth as Dempsey, and scales well over tho 180 pound mark, only a few pounds lighter than Jack. Gene is a. better boxer, is fully as fast, and punches almost as hard as the champion. Dempsey, in his bouts with Carpentier and Firpo, proved that he could be hit and hurt —and anyone Gene Tunney can hit and hurt, he can