JIM MALONEY GETS VERDICT IN BLOODY BOUT WITH HEENEY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 7

JIM MALONEY GETS VERDICT IN BLOODY BOUT WITH HEENEY

One Round K.O. Avenged

HEENEY WINS ONLY ONE BOUND; MALONEY FOUR

FEW ZEALAND’S HOPE SLIPPING.

United Press Association—By Electrit Telegraph—Copyright Eeceived Sunday 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, March 1. The largest crowd ever to attend an Indoor boxing match assembled at Boston when 18,000 filled Boston Garden for the Heeney-Maloney fight. When the two men entered the ring, Heeney weighed 207$ pounds and Maloney 199 pounds. Bound one: Heeney landed an immediate blow, a smashing left uppercut to Maloney’s jaw. Ho drove Maloney to the ropes and both men traded terrific short distance body blows. They milled to the middle of the ring. Malonoy landed several hard rips to the body. It was Heeney’s round by a shade. Bound two: After a rapid drum beat exchange of blows, where once Heeney drove Maloney to the ropes and laced him, the American retaliated with a hard right to the face, which staggered the New Zealander. Then Maloney hit low, obviously accidentally and was warned by the referee. The New Zealander now rocked his opponent with a hard right and left. They continued to find each other with well-timed blows with either hand until the bell. The round was even. Bound three: Maloney drove a tremendous left to Heeney’s face and they clinched, from which Heeney struggled out, lashing with both hands. They frame to close quarters, but no hard blows were struck. They sparred and came to nearer hitting distance from time to time and it was in one of the latter periods that Maloney sent the New Zealander’s head back with jabs that continued to keep Heeney on his heels. —Maloney’s round. Bound four: There was some sharp in-fighting at the start, with Maloney having slightly the better of it, landing stiff lefts and rights. They clinched frequently, but managed to hit each other on face and body in the breaks. Heeney particularly, on the bell, landing two haTd rights to his opponent’s body. The round was even. Bound five: After a short exchange of light blows, Maloney jabbed to the New Zealander’s eye. Heeney, in return, staggered the American with a hard right to the face and Maloney pummelled Heeney in a clinch. The fast pace in the early rounds was now slowing them up. Maloney landed a hard right to Heeney’s jaw and tho latter retaliated with the same to the head and body.—Tho round was even. Bound six: They wero fighting openly and trading heavy blows continuously. The New Zealander was - finding the American’s face with smart jabs. Fighting then returned to close Tange and Maloney seemed slightly the better at the in-fighting. Heeney landed two lefts to the face and an uppercut to the chin, then chased Maloney round the ring, the American stopping his rush v with a stiff left to the face.—The round was even. Bound seven: Heeney was being punished. His body was welted red and his mouth was bleeding from Maloney’s jabs. Maloney . continued to pound the New Zealander’s body in the clinches. The round concluded with a scries of left jabs by Maloney that found the New Zealander’s face a target;—Maloney’s round. Bound eight: Heeney rushed again but Maloney met him with a hard right to the jaw and a stiff left to the body. They clinched and thereafter traded jabs to the face and uppercuts to the chin. The round was even. Bound nine: Heeney’s face was blood-smeared as Maloney's right .found its mark. They continued in the open, trading blows, and the New Zealander-again assumed his following round tactics, Maloney stopping him t with jabs after Heeney had forced, him into ‘ a corner. Heeney’s hard righthand blows wore badly timed and Maloney battered his body at the bell. — Maloney’s round. Bound ten: After shaking hands, Heeney drove Maloney to the ropes and sent short hammer blows to the body, punishing the American severely, but the latter was tirelessly jabbing the New Zealander’s face. Heeney blinked at the blows, his mouth and eye were bleeding-- badly. Maloney landed a haTd. right and left to Heeney’s jaw as the bout ended. Maloney’s round. The Amorican gained the decision.

La Barba Accounts for Billy Grime TOO MUCH CLINCHING. Australian Press Association, Received Monday, 2 a.m. MELBOURNE, Mar. 3. The Stadium was packed for the La Earba-Grime .contest, which went the full 15 rounds, La Barba gaining the verdict on points. The decision wa3 received with hoots and cheers. La Barba (8.95) forced the fighting from the start and after the second round, Grime (8.11$) _ appeared distressed. Ho improved in the fifth and seventh, when he got one or two good punches in but the American speeded up and dominated the rest of the contest. Grime was cautioned in the eleventh for a low blow to the body. Too much clinching roused the onlookers’ ire and everyone was glad when the bout ended. It is doubtful if Grime could have lasted much longer.