CHALK PIT FIGHT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2667, 8 September 1937, Page 2

CHALK PIT FIGHT

LESS TROUBLE AFTERWARDS. The story of a chalk-pit fight with a Territorial private was told recently by Sir Robert Tasker, M.P. for Holborn. Sir Robert mentioned the bout during the Commons debate on prison conditions, when he declared that to deal effectively with certain men, “You had to give them a good hiding.” “My opponent was the ‘black sheep’ of the regiment. We could do absolutely nothing with him. “He had previously been dismissed from the army for striking an officer on parade. “I was quite a good boxer in my younger days,, but I was 47 when the fight took place—about 22 years older than my opponent. “It was a barefisted fight. It had not lasted long when he brought across a beautiful blow to the jaw. “It put me out. “This apparently frightened him. When I woke up I found him bending over me. “‘What will you tell them, sir?’ he exclaimed. ‘These marks on your face! ... Tell them you fell off your pony. ... You won’t have any more trouble with me, sir!’ “And I had no more trouble with •him.” ,