BOXING.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 97, 26 April 1916, Page 6

BOXING.

DARCY'S LATEST VICTORY.

i'-iIOWN I)EFEA rl.ia> ON POINTS

At the' Sydney ii bad nun on a recent Saturday -night J^es Darey, the champion, middleweight of the world, met, for ike second time, and defeated on ;K4lts, the GreekAmerican, Gnqrg.e Brown,- of Chicago. Wiiile Brown has earned for liirr.self the sobriquet of "Knock-out" Brown, his experiencewith Darcy prove him to bo "imknodkouwWe.-' While Darcy has put it across on McGoorty, Hardwick-, O'Donnell, aiiict others, he has found 13rown a hard and tough nut to crack, and a great crowd rolled up not for ' a moment expecting Brown to win, but curious to see if Darcy coul'l knock out the Spartan. Try n-a he did Jie failed, but he sutt'-oeded in giving Brown a terrible hiding, and, what is more, got more lrnockt-tl about that usu.il.

Brown was coniklent that ho could not h& knocked down or out by ])arcy. and was so sure that he could not l)o knocked clown th:t he offered to forfeiii £25 if i)arcy put it over nim. Brown v, as entitled to a fight with McGoorty, but McGoorty refused to meet Brown, due to the fact that the Greek had previously lost t) Fiitz Holland, is net, conseoueatly, l)nr<'-y accepted the Stadium managemi Xt's otter to have a j-ctui-n match, with tho "Knock-out" from Chicago. The weights announced were: Dare-/ 11.3, Brown, 11.10.

As miHili. had been made of tho fact that Brown was willing to forfeit £25 if 2>arcy knocked him down, and £50 if he was knocked out, the young champion^ t-etsicd to Ir-we accepted the ehailonge, for, from the beginning, he went i'or the Spartan and banged him terribly. BA hit Jiai-d and .often, but not hard enough to send Brown off his feet, let alone knock him out.

Brown, in hb turn, fought with a fury seldom scon in tbe Stadium, a.nci he punished the champion more than ever the youngster had been punished before. This was due mainly to the fact- that Darcy strove hard to effect a knock-out blow and consequently left himself more open than usual. After the fight he exhibited a badly swollen cheek, but nothing aiore serious.

Brown, on the other hand, was badly disfigured. An eyebrow was laid" open, bin mouth burst,-his left eye closed and iijsi nose* :nuch swollen. . ' At the conclusion of the- twentieth ' round, ;t.nd before-. Referee Scott indicated Darcy its tiie v-innor, the Givek {uhnittocl defeat by warmly {•mbnicijv; and i«ngri'itilating Darcy. |