Scottish Boxer

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 227, 26 September 1935, Page 10

Scottish Boxer

QUICK RISE TO TAME BENNY LYNCH’S SUCCESS LONDON, Sept.. 11. Benny Lynch, of Glasgow, who in two rounds at Manchester won. the world, European and British lly-wcigUt titles from tho holder, Jackie Brown, is hailed as a new Jimmy Wilde. Former messenger boy, dock labourer and country fair lighter, Lynch is Scotland’s hero of tho hour. Boxing like an infuriated machine, ho knocked Brown down 10 times in 282 seconds. Brown never recovered from tho effects of tho first time he was felled by a savage left hook. Ho gamely scrambled up, but was met by a tornado of flashing hooks, swings- and jabs and sank into semi-consciousness, though he was on his fact at the finish. Thousands of pounds w r ero wagered, Scotsmen eagerly accepting two to one against Lynch. The crowd, after the conclusion of tho light, rushed tho ring, bursting aside the police and shouldered Lynch to his dressing-room, led by a Highland piper. Lynch is named “the boxer "with dynamite in his lirst.” 110 says uo offers will tempt him to leave the* United Kingdom. “My only regret is that xny brother, who died at 19, could not bo hero. Bclievo me, ho was a better fighter than over I will be,” he says. Brown, for throo years England’s boxing idol, was helped from tho ring, where he had suffered ono of the bitterest humiliations in championship boxing history, amid a tumult of hoots and cat-calls.