BOXING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 135, 24 May 1911, Page 3

BOXING.

| BILL RUDD BEATEN BY I WHITING. I i Before a packed house at the Brisbane Stadium, on May 13, Bill Rudd, of New Zealand, disputed i Ted Whiting's claim to the Australi ian Middle-weight Championship. ’ The weights were announced : Rudd ! 11.4. and the Hefty Victorian list, and both fully looked the poundage. • The first round was rather tame, ! the points, if anything, being in ! favour of Rudd, who at once showed ; himself to be an active, agile ngh- ■ ter ; but, as is usual. M biting was ■ content to be calm and cautious. ( cleverly evading some heavy blows ! and catching others on the glove. ! Rudd was not to be denied, how- ’ ever, and early in the fight he got i a straight left to Whiting s mouth i and drew blood. Teel soon got go- | ing, however, and. if the betting was a (true indication, he began to ' forge ahead in points after the second round, although Rudd began to ! force the pace. j In the fourth Rudd followed up j quickly and rushed his man on to the ropes, landing left and right to head, but whether it was that his blows lacked steam or not, Ted didn’t seem to care much. The | fourth round was full of fast, hard | fighting, although Whiting’s duckI ing and evading seemed to have got ' Bill rather puzzled. Whiting gave I us the best performance we have . had from him, and showed that he could hit hard and box well, while ! his defence work xvas a treat to , witness. The pace quietened down ! a bit in the fifth, but Whiting got busv in the sixth (and last) round. i and attacked with such dash and effoc t that he soon had the Maorit lander retreating round the ring. ■Ted sent a hard right jolt to the f jaw. which evidently rattled the recipient, who smothered up from Whiting’s strong attack. Whiting ‘ then began to chop the back of the 1 head and neck with his right, but ; after several blows had failed the ■ scrap was stopped at the request of ; the police, although their reasons i for doing so were not altogether ap- : parent . Referee Imber promptly awarded the fight to Whiting. • THE LANG-LESTER FIGHT. ■ Inexperience. and a seeming .lack of knowledge of a technical point, was the cause of Jack Lestm being disqualified early in the sixth ‘round of his contest with Bill Lang at the Sydney Stadium on the 13th inst. It was announced that Lester pulled the beam at 12st 11-’.lb, (and Lang at 13st 101 b. The latter, however, looked at least half a i stone heavier than his declared weight. | With a decided advantage in height, weight, and reach, it would (appear reasonable to look to Lang ito force the fighting. Instead, he (showed a decided disinclination to lead, and was for the most part too ‘ painfully careful. Lester, on the (other hand, displayed an over- | anxity to lead, and in his wild en(deavours to land a convincing blow ion more than one occasion left ' openings which for the main were • entirely disregarded by his opponent. His wild rushes and whirling swings had Lang so galled that at (the conclusion of the first round (the visitor returned to his corner ; with a pronounced lead on points, i The Australian made a much better \ showing from this time on, fre- ’ quently connecting with straight lefts, and from time to time with a short, snappy right to the jaw. Before the conclusion of the second round Lang had worked off the deficit. and was slightly ahead. The third round served further to increase the margin of points in his favour, for in addition to outboxing his opponent he scored a clean knock-down, the result of a weighty right jolt to the chin. Lester stopped down for nine seconds, and was a trifle unsteady when he reassumed the perpendicular. He made a wonderful recovery, and was actually forcing the pace when the call to corners sounded. The fourth round but served to further increase Lang’s lead, notwithstanding the fact that Lester opened an old wound over the Australian’s eye early in the round, the punch that did the damage being a short right half-arm smash. Lang was showing to advantage in the fifth, when a vicious left body smash quickly followed up by a light right jolt over the heart, knocked him off his feet. The blows, however, were scarcely severe enough in themselves to have caused Lang to fall, faulty balance being largely to blame for the mishap. Lester attmkid so fiercely in the sixth that Lang was cont inul ally breaking ground. 1-inally ( Lang backed up amun-t the ropes tin a neutral corner. Lester dashed >in wit h a wild overhead i ight sv mir. v inch larded square on king's elbow. which was pressed against h's -i<le. and jarred LesIters arm so severely that with a

cry of pain }>« ian to tl f ■'ntie ol the ring, and thei e nulling the jarred mem’.'er. 101 l to the floor. Lang rush* d ou- towaids him, but was motioned m k bv Mi Baker, who imniuiiaUiv 1 squahfied Lester toi going x n without having received a blow— <<?' offence w’hich, undei the 'la’Tiis of Queensbury intrant disqualification.