BOXING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 October 1931, Page 9

BOXING

COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIPS SPIRITED CONTESTS DELLA BOSCA RETAINS TITLE Bright and spirited boxing was seen in tlie Nelson College gymnasium on Saturday evening when the building was packed with hoys and visitors for the College championship finals. The standard of the boxing was equal to other years and the bouts were most interesting. The arrangements were good, bout following bout without any time being iosl. The boxing was clean and mostly open, showing the contestants to have a good knowledge of the principles of the. sport. The referee, Air H. Oakley, complimented the boys on their display, stating that the school’s standard was as good as in other years. THE PRELIMINARIES The results of the preliminaries, decided during last week, were as follows: Alosquito weight—Townley beat Bar’ham. Paperweight—Hayter beat Rout, T. Shand heat Pitt, Brammall heat Hayter. Flyweight—Alulfroy beat Jenkins. Bantamweight—Karsten beat Aloore, Annand-Smith beat Ford, AlcArthur heat. Annand-Smith. Featherweight—Watson heat B. Nathan, Coote heat Afuncasler. Welterweight—M. Sham! beat Stewart. Lightweight—A. B. Smith beat Burke, Dop beat A. B. Smith. Heavyweight—Stocker beat Aleikle. THE FINALS The finals resulted as follows: MosquitoweightTownley heat Gould. Townley scored heavily in tile first round with straight lefts, Gould doing most of the leading. Townley’s greater reach allowed him to get the better of the exchanges against his little opponent. Paperweight Shand beat Brammall, narrowly. Shand was the cleverer boxer, his footwork in the first round being 'good, resulting in Brammall missing frequently. Shand won the second round, but in the third Brammall used his straight left to advantage. However, he was still a point behind his opponent at the final g oll g- e Flyweight Alulfroy beat O’Connor. Alalfroy scored heavily early and towards the end of the round made O’Connor miss frequently. 111 the second and third Alalfroy punched well with both hands and varied his attack to the body and the head. Bantamweight AlcArthur heat Karsten. The first round between the pair was the fastest of the evening with clever footwork and vicious punching. Each scored with both hands, Karsten displaying a hefty right hand punch. 111 the last two rounds McArthur took the fight to his opponent, who covered frequently to save himself. Karsten, who seemed to like the open fighting, was beaten by McArthur’s close up work. Featherweight Coote heat Watson. A fast round saw Watson lead with his left, Coote retaliating with stinging rights, thereby winning the round by a single _ point. The final two rounds were similar to the first with Watson leading with lefts and Coote relying on his right. They shared the honours of the last two, Coote’s advantage in the first giving him the bout. Lightweight A. B. Smith beat Dee. Most of the first round was taken up with sparring, Dee using a straight-left as a counter to Smith’s right. The second round was even. Smith scored with welltimed lefts in the final round when he was much more clever on his feet. Welterweight M. AL Shand beat Craighead. Shand went in fast, leading with his left and following up his advantage with his right to the body. Craighead, however, showed that his left-hand body punch was good and used it to advantage. Craighead’s dodging made Shand miss in the second. Shand’s straight-left shook his opponent several times, only to see Craighead recover with body blows. Shand won the end of the round with straight lefts and short- rights to the body. Aliddleweight Alabin beat Field. The first round was one of hard clean punching in Alabin s favour. Alabin is a boxer who lands vicious punches with either hands, hield stood up well to his taller opponent and fought back very gamely. 1 teld who had had no previous experience, went into the ring to make a fight 111 the weight and was given an ovation. Heavyweight The final for the heavyweight was fought between B. Della Bosca 10.12 and J. J’. S. Stocker 13.0. Della Bosca, last year’s champion, was clever ill ringcraft, which alone saved him from his heavier opponent and allowed him to win the bout. Stocker had had the gloves on only four times previously, but lie had a solid punch. Della Bosca’s left to the face steadied Stocker early in the first round, but towards the end the heavier boy did some solid fighting his right landing solid body blows (o which Della Bosca countered with Ins right. Last year’s champion found Stocker a solid' proposition in the two last rounds and on the actual fighting was lucky to win. However, he knew much more about the art and was awarded the decision. Cheers wore 'given for the referee.

AUSTRALIAN WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP RETAINED BY PALMER (United Prosß Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 4th October. At Sydney Stadium last night in a match 'for the welterweight championship of Australia, fifteen rounds, Ambrose Palmer gained a points decision and retains the title against Fred Hannabcrry, who is rapidly coming to the fore. ITannabcrry gave a lot of punishment, and in the final three rounds he fought so desperately that his admirers thought that Palmer would be unable to withstand the onslaught. The crowd of 8000 were on tiptoes right through, and expected a draw, a section hooting the decision.