CLABBY-TRAGEY CONTEST.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 48, 9 February 1920, Page 6

CLABBY-TRAGEY CONTEST.

AMERICAS WlXsi VS I’VIS’H

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H.imilcuii, I •i*

A crowded jiidwiKv v.it'ln'il the fight Jimmy I ab"; * Jim liao'j. 1> TVUlid', ui three miriUti-'o cut h, lor a purse ut £ UXK No time wa- !•>-: i.i i-pening hostilities. riu.'y cltnHieU ttiri), Mini tile Amerkan wu* '•» n |>uTi.t>ietiiig away at the tody hi' opponent, shitting to tnv head with a ligniuing-Like mm>xnent- "Iruiey with ngotii itoth men »en> very at live, .uni nianv Veiling blows v»viit huiut’. lUe vork was uurdeitiil. Ihv pate wa> a cracker. Iran* pla)e4 hi±» JeK tu Uiabby’s fate. and. brining owr In* re-opvrteu th© vlw wulind met ClabbyS v»e. The ircvlv uozed. the mtfekxibw in point?* iwivd wab a »bade m Iraiti a t.miui, but Horn that out to the viv-’’. vhtn uti hb He;, he Dever got Uetimlety m iiont ut the Anieruaii. lh< ihiru, tumth and twelfth were abcut eteniy divided, but in the remainder Ciabny held the margin, and i: “goodbje ’ to Irate.- hi the greater jKinontage. The Ameru uii * purtuulav object »a* hi> opponent’» middle area, him I a lortuO't ©r rained m theie <tunJig th© !•> rounds. Iteerv were no •‘let ups/' With the exception <4 the fourteenth round Ltabbj u«i» alwuj , » first to iwniisi. Miaigh: troui hi.» corner he would anu nitli hgne-ning-tike rapidity draw hi.t» opponent for the punch- fratev wa» nui idle, and it was marTi elloua to see the speed I he kept at tor a Leai-«-weight, and he held his adversary cuntiuuaU.* of the tact that he < umri a punch in either hand, and that at long range he vas in danger. But when Claohy nuike-1 in closet it «a.- conv in< tngly the nia-ter short-ar in won* that troubled the Australian and scored heat ily. in tue closing two rounds, the pressure was kept up at as great a pace as in tile opening round, and it was an era el Scleutinc, exciting and highly-schooled puglistK endeavours. The tight closed witn tue men hard nt it.

l‘iabby’s weigh.t w„s 11,1 and Tiacey a IJJ 7. •

COMING EVENTS

Barney Ireland (.Waipawai meets Jack Heeney tGisberne) at Waipawu, on February 23th. tor a purse oi £5O and expenses. W. jJarlett t Nelson) meets Tom Heeny tGisoorne), at Gisborne, on Thursday, February 12th, tor a purse of £75 and expen—"} On Fnday evening, February- 13th, D- Boreham wdl cry conclusions with «J. Heeney, at Gisborne, lor a purse of £75 and expenses.