BOXING AND BOXERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 24 April 1934, Page 7

BOXING AND BOXERS

<> .ANOTHER WIN EG P. PETERSEN (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. ]£th .March. Tiir ‘‘come back” of -lack Petersen continues (urites P>- Dennison), but it is being made by easy slaves. I Lis opponents are being carefully chos.ni for |)i ni mill iliroimli them lie is again 1 building up a big reputation prepara Inrv for bis return light with Ecu Harvey. His latest success was at the expense of the young South African. Hen Foonl. Tbe latter is a niagnificentlv built vOutli weighing over ll stone's but be bad not Ins nrmonent rent'll and when lie came to this eounin - about three months ago lie bad Irid little experience. Tn each contest however, lie bad shown improved Form, and m:inv | bought that be would severely test the Welshman. Hut Petersen (i c |,tin"- with exhilarating abandon and refusing to sec any risks in going allout to force tbe fighting, was imieli 100 fast for I'onrd. and the latter took a terrific hammering. ' ro'n the fifth round one t bought 1.1,at the next was bound to be the last, hut the Sou African's spirit could not be bioken, •uirl tbe contest did not end until the referee stopped the figut- in the teoun round H was reallv a one-sided ninten. but tbe need for Petersen to .-nwovo ),js defence was again seen. two o> three times Foonl broke through hi.rii"Vil lather easily, and. if bis strougJi hui not been sauped bv the punishment) ho bad received, it miglit have gone bed 1 v for the Welshman. . . There is talk of Petersen going to America, and his all-out-to-wm style --t (IrThtin ,T would make a big anpenl to the fans there, but. so far he has been verv well managed bv Ins fnth-i, and I Should be surprised if the lat e, yet contemplates a trip across the Atlantic. XE. “ home and be is such a fine draw that it, is 'unlikely h« would make as mm i ■ . \mpnrn Besides, he is hoe ,no, r ",. Con 'the heavyweights of T"’ H i believe that he will -oopinre' tbe British championship when