IN THE RING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 October 1927, Page 7

IN THE RING.

PARKER DEFEATS BURNS. BOUT POOR EXHIBITION FOE CHAMPIONS (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 2. At the Newcastle Stadium Eddie* Parker (12 stone), New Zealand, defeated Fi-ankie Burns (11.10*), Newcastle, on a technical knock-out in the sixteenth round. .Burns who was terrifically punished was on the floor half way through the sixteenth round and his seconds threw in the towel. Although the contest was crude for men ranking as champions, Parker won all the way and had Burns floored three times with terrific rights to the jaw. He was down for eight seconds in the twelfth, then again in the fifteenth, but managed to weather the session through taking the count to six. The end came in the next round when Parker after some desultory sparring landed a hard right to the jaw and Burns wont down in such a bad state that his seconds skied the towel. Both men were overweight, Parker being eight pounds above middleweight limit. PHIL KRUG OUTPOINTS BELLY HARMS AT SYDNEY. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 2. At the Stadium after a fast clever contest Phil Krug defeated Billy Harms on points in fifteen.rounds. i FIGHT WITH SHARKEY ON NOV. 18. (Received Sunday 5.5' p.m) NEWYORK, Sept. 30. In a fight in "New York, Tom Heeney, of New Zealand, knockedout Jim Maloney (the Boston heavyweight) in the first round, 77 seconds after they had entered the ring. Maloney dropped flat on his face for the full count after the first few blows, having received a terrific right-hander to the chin, necessitating his revival with icewater and'smel-ling-salts.

Tom Heeney and Jack Sharkey have been matched -to meet in New York on November 18th in a twelveround bout.