BOXING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 64, 16 March 1911, Page 3

BOXING.

RUDD DEFEATS JEROME

The match between W. Rudd, the •New Zealand heavy-weight champion, and Jerry Jerome, the Quuensland aboriginal, which was fought in Sydney, drew a large audience. The weights wore given as: Rudd, list 41b; and Jerome, list 31b. For the first two rounds the colored man escaped many heavy swings. He showed cleverness peculiarly his own in back-moving Rudd's leads, and often swung in a heavy left. His awkward style bothered Rudd a great deal. First he would shape up left hand foremost, then by a quick movement change to an entirely opposite attitude. From the third until the knockout in the eight round Rudd looked all over a winner, excepting in the fifth round, when Jerome, by right swings on the chin, momentarily dazed the New Zealand champion, who was forced to hang on. He soon recovered, and by right and left to the body doubled Jerome almost in two. Rudd paid particular attention to the body, where he landed very often with heavy lefts and rights, and an occasional jolt to the side of the head with either hand.

Jerome opened up the eight round by swinging a feeble right and left to the head. Rudd jolted left and right causing Jerome to back out of a clinch, when a hard left swing caught the Queenslander. It rattled Jerome, whose left swing to head was countered by a straight left from Rudd, and, following it up, he swung a right, putting Jerome down and out.