BOXING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 July 1927, Page 7

BOXING.

THE SPORT DENOUNCED

A NOVELIST’S STRICTURES

DESCRIBED AS PI FELL

BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 1.

As the •outcome of Milligan's terrific pounding of Walker, Sir william llall Oaiue has written a remarkable letter to the “Daily Express, ' calling on “Someone, speaking with the authority of the public conscience, to call a halt to such orgies of savage, corrupt, degrading inhumanity,” He calls on bishop and priest, and on not only those loving honest sport, but oil every healthy-minded able-bodied person. I Briefly he .says that while man, whatever his class or condition, is full of personal courage ancl pride in the display of his powers of personal endurance, he asks such a man to say, in the sacred name of humanity, that gross exhibitions of merciless savagery and loathsome trafficking in human suffering must cease in England. Mr. Cochran replies: “Early Victorian flapdoodle has been written without knowledge of, or sympathy with, the noble science. Walker was not brutally knocked about in the fight with Milligan. We are not murderers nor blackguards; we played the game straight and fought cleanly.” Kearns, Walker’s manager, says that Sir William Hall Caine’s strictures are piffle. THOMI'SON J-LXOCKED OUT. SYDNEY, July 3. Ait the Stadium, Tiger Payne knocked out George Thompson in the eighth round for the ‘heavy-weight championship of Australia. Payne was lucky to win as, in the seventh term, he was almost knocked out, but in the following round, 'hitting wildly, he managed to place «■ right to Thompson’s jaw, dropping him. Thi® was the ‘beginning of the end. and Thompson was' badly punished before he took the final count.