BOXING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 10

BOXING.

L NOTES AND COMMENTS. > It is the intention of the Northern Boxing • Association to hold a tournament in the k Town Hall on March 28. " The proposed • programme is_as follows:Mendozav. Holt, i 10 rounds professional contest; Dalziell ' (Palmerston North) v. Mitchell .(Hamilton), i amateur welter-weights; Boomer v. Stewart, ' middle-weights; Cotteroll v. Cadman, lightweights] and Bennetts v. O'Meara. • - At Eltham last week Len. Porter defeated ; Allan Maxwell on point# in als rounds con- ! test. Mr. F. H. Dyer, of Auckland, acted ? as referee. [■. Frank Ellis and. Tommy Thompson, the > two hard-hitting feather-weights, are to t meet in Wellington on the 25th inst. They i have also been matched by the Blenheim • Association. To-night, at the Sydney Stadium, Dave , Smith and Lea O'Donnell will fight for the [ middle-weight championship of Australia. ' „ ALF. POOLEY BEATEN. > * Alf. Pooley, the Auckland heavy-weight, i was beaten by Harold Ewers, of Australia, ■ in a 10-rouna bout at the Sydney Stadium , one evening last week. Following is Mr. i W. F. Corbett's, of the Sydney Sun. account [ of the contest: Two "hopes," Alt. Pooley . and Harold Ewers, each much above the average height, and Ewers at least a head taller than jPooley, figured in the 10-round bout which finds a place in every week's ; bill, and for which Mr. Baker gives a £10 . purse. Ewers bad the recommendation : of having been discovered by McVea, with • whom be " worked*' for some time aa spar- . ring partner, and Pooley's sponsor was Mick I Dunn, who had had the ambitious young fellow in band for quite a good while. Rain I came down in torrents as the two bjg feli lows entered the ring, and the noise caused > by that heavy fall of water complerely smothered whatever announcements were made. Pooley forced all the time, and i found Ewers readily responsible. 'Pooley swung mostly, and aimlessly, as a rule. Here and there Ewers showed a fairly good left, i though one which should not be hard to beat. In the initial round Pooley's right swing just grazed Ewers's chift, and many 1 in the crowd grunted " ooh," as is their 1 habit when a close shave occurs. Then ' Ewers thumped a right over the left kidney. ; Few real pomte were scored and no advant- ■ age worth mentioning existed at the close ■ of th© first round. Pooley continued to make play in the second round, but it was ; not effective because badly judged, though 1 he did wallop the body two or three times, and twice swung thjt> left to the jaw. Early in the third Mick Dunn's " hope" scored ' a double neatly. He hurled right to the 1 ribs, and 'brought it up to the jaw. Not ' much of the fourth round had gone when 1 Pooley swung a left, which Ewers got in- ! side with a short right driven straight to ; the jaw. Down went Pooley. " One, two, ' three," counted Referee Marre, and Pooley \ rested on hands and knees, plainly dwell- ; ing there to take as much advantage of the 1 10 seconds' allowance as possible. At "nine" Pooley was rising, and had stood ' up, when the referee oried, " You're- out F" : 1 think Marre, usually a cool and capable official, rushed the "out" too much. Pooley 1 was on his feet and might easily have assumed the defensive before* Ewers reached him. . Though Pooley bad been badly ' shaken, Ewers is not yet so much an artist at the game that anyone could have at all ! confidently expected him to finish his man before the round ended. The minute's spell might have placed Pooley as well as he was . before being floored, which being the case lie must have had at least ae good a chance of winning as his opponent. . There was no man among the onlookers more disappointed at Pooley's failure than that good judge, I Mick Dunn, who thought there were big possibilities for his protege. "If you saw him fighting in the gymnasium you wouldn't ! think he was the same man," remarked the veteran, looking as glum as could be the while. Sayers then chipped in. Said he, " I have seen Pooley put up some great goes with Colin Bell, and, clever though Bell undoubtedly is, Pooley always had him moving at his top." The explanation no doubt is that Pooley was nervously anxious, so much had been said about ana so much I' expected of him, or was he stage-struck?