BOXING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 7

BOXING.

WIN'S WELL. O'KEEFE BEATS REEVE. LONDON. Feb. 24. Pat O'Keefe beat Reeve on point; at the National Sporting Club last night after 20 rounds. O'Keefe, using both hands well," drew blood in the first round by landing heavily on Reeve's nose. Ever after the damaged organ worried the Englishman a good ileal. In the third round O'Keefe landed his right flush on his opponent's jaw, and in his eagerness to follow up the blow, he slipped on his knees.

The fourth session saw Reeve staggering under a succession of heavy lefts and rights on the jaw. Subsequently the Irishman's superior ringcraft and boxing told, and he won well. Though slower than formerly, O'Keefe was still faster than Reeve. JIM SULLIVAN BEATS HARRISON. LONDON, Feb. 24. Jim Sullivan beat Jack Harrison at the National Sporting Club last night, making the pace so hot that the loser retired in the fourth round. Sullivan, who was recently in Australia, end Harrison aro both ex-middleweight champions of England. Harrison held the honor the more recently of the two, but some time ago he handed in the belt, and had, apparently, retired. lie has evidently come forward again. It was Harrison whom Eddie McGoorty knocked out in one round in New York soon after treating Dave Smith that way.

SPENCELEY BEATEN. LONDON, Feb. 24. Alf Spenceley was beaten on points at tbo Ring-, London, last night byi# fighter named Prendv.

Jim Prendv is a boxer of some reputfe. and about the middle of last month© he defeated Lance-Corporal Redrup on points in 10 rounds. His straight left jabs are described as being very convincing. McGOORTY AND SMITH MATCHED. At last Eddie *McGoorty and Jeff Smith have been matched. The compact has been signed, sealed and delivered. It has been decided that Jimmy Clabbv shall meet the winner of the_ McGoorty-Jeff Smith contest at the Stadium on Easter Monday. If nothing occurs to interfere Avith plans thought out by Mr Baker in America and embodied in C'labby's contract, the crack Indiana middleweight will arrive' in Sydney a fortnight before the day of battle as fit as he can possibly get. Elaborate arrangements are to bo made aboard the boat so that the boxer may train thoroughly, and he, will have a special reserve on deck where he can go through the whole of his exercises, including ball-punching.