SCOTTISH BOXER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 13

SCOTTISH BOXER.

QUICK RISE TO FAME. Benny Lynch, of Glasgow, who in two rounds at Manchester won the world, European and British fly-weight titles from th© holder, Jackie Brown, is hailed as a now Jimmy Wilde. Former messenger boy, dock labourer and country fair fighter, Lynch is Scotland’s hero of the hour. Boxing like an infuriated machine, he knocked Brown down 10 times in 282 seconds. Brown never recovered from the effects of the first time he was felled by a savage left hook. H© gamely scrambled up, hut was met by a tornado of flashing hooks, swings and jabs, and sank into semi-consciousness, though he was on his feet at the finish. Thousands of pounds wore wagered, Scotsmen eagerly accepting two to one against Lynch. Th© crowd, after the conclusion of the fight, rushed the ring, brushing aside tho police, and shouldered Lynch to his dressing-room, led by a Highland piper. Lynch is named “the boxer with dynamite in his fists.” He says no offers will tempt him to leave the United Kingdom. “My only regret is that my brother, who died at 19, could not be here. Believe me, he was a better fighter than ever I will be,” lie says. Brown, for three years England’s boxing idol, was helped from the ring, where he had suffered one of the bitterest humiliations in championship boxing history, amid a tumult of hoots and cat-calls.