BOXING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 December 1920, Page 5

BOXING

MORAN y. BECKETT.

7 fZ.CApUt-SaEss ASSOCIATION-COi-YlllG!ir "^Uus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.); •Tit. ■ • ■J^>*i>Oi>, nec 10 £55355=*: a controversy regarding Ar n Beckett W by ?^ari «g unshaken ivW i ? any chance he had by re•&ing. oil force and not on skill jL Palmer was referee. • at^. h meU °Pened and fought making little response. The SDectaW* were puzzled at Moran's tactS Ho was either taking matters very ? a l m tv f was dazzled by Beckett's swiftly I' val, Carpentier, who was in B^ckett^ corner, gave him advice' ' ° nnst, and Beckett' «Zio\ved the <?imo ;^nor% in. spee d. Moran ctedT j The men were separated an d workM c osea and -landed a tremendous WD er cut^on the cbzn, and Becketf was SL The result was sensational, as Berkett a. few - seconds l e fore he wL knocked out, seemed a sure Moran appearing ter^bly slow S seemed hardly to have blgL to°fi^t .Moran pays a tribute to Beckptf".. clean fighting, and says he Svtred victory to his experience. He says ttm •Wk-out came from a left hook and then a right hook, wHcb shook Beckett nverea tne -upper-cut .Critics declare that Moran's ™ nc r B^ckeTt Lr^ S °l bafch - : «™. w^t Beckett had evidently been warnM f^. avoid ana,, never looked for Ss' Jj uppercuts.- The last had an exWdt STiSSJ Moran h^^:««»«^ MoranV smile after the worf>t I>lows ' v ß^tt, who v^VzUe tJ conceal his winces. ,