BOXING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 5

BOXING.

PROFESSIONAL CONTESTS.

SMITH DEFEATS BROCK

FLYNN TOO GOOD FOR WHITTOME. A boxing carnival under the auspices of the Northern Boxing Association attracted a. large gathering to the Town Hall last evening 1 . Advantage was taken of the occasion to welcome back the Auckland amateur boxers who were successful at the championship boxing tournament at Hobart The manager of the team. ilr. E. A. Dawson, of. Wellington, and the title winners K Meale. middle-weight. P. Hansen, welterweight, and C. Purdy. feather-weight, with too trainer, Mr. H. Donovan, entered the ring, and were given an enthusiastic reception. The chief event of the evening was a 15round contest between P. Brock, late of Sydney ,and 8. Smith, of Auckland, for a. purse of £130. Brock's weight waa announced as lOst 4Jlb, and Smith's an lOst lilb,, but both men looked considerably heavier than the weights stated. The contest was of the bustling order. Smith con- ' rushing his mo.ii, and a good deu.l ot clinching and scrambling was indulged "L.,, 0n V vo . occa «°pß Brock ducited as smith _ rushed, and the latter dived clean over his opponent. Brock did more cleaner hitting than Smith, but the latter always boreid in. and occasionally landed heavy swings. The contest was a difficult one to judge, and the referee in awarding the decision to Smith no doubt was influenced by the fact that the latter was continually on the aggressive, though he boxed rather wildly. The first round saw Brock using snappy straight rights to the body. Smith 9cored lefts to the head, and landed a good right book to the body. In the second round Smith 3 right to the head want astray, but later he landed a heavy left hook to the bead that shotfK his opponent. A hot rally followed. Smith forcing the pace. Brock toujrht btci to good etiect, ana p;aced some aica body blows. There waa a good deal ot clopfi work in the. next round, Brock snowing to advantage with snappy lofts »nd rights to the body and short uppercuts to the jaw. Smith rushed in the next round, but swung his right wildly. Brock was generally _ content to defend, and had no difficulty in avoiding his opponents r'ishe«, A well-directed right by Smith eany in the next round just failed, to connect with Brock's jaw. but a. couple ot left hooks got home. Smith continued a adopt, rushing tactics, but failed to land clean punche*.. At the opening of the seventh round Brock landed three good straight lefts to tho face in aucceeaion. Smith continued to bore in, but was wild with his right swinfta. w hatever clean punching was done in the next round went to the credit of Brock, who met Smith'a rnphea with rights to the pody and. placed an occasional left to the taco. Smith's best blow was a right hook to the neck. Smith placed a couple of short rights to the jaw in the ninth, but Brock more than evened the (score' with «nappy lefts and a solid right to the- body Ine pace slackened in the tenth round. Smith not being so keen to rush. Brock Uidged some good right* to the body and Smith a left hook to the neck. Heavy left ana right swings by Smith in the eleventh round failed to Teach their objective. Then Smith rushed, and Brock, ducking, sent his opponent over his back to the floor. Little damage was done to either during the round, but Brock landed tho cleaner punchen, There was a good deal of scram* bjinff in the twelfth session due to Smith'* rushing. The latter scored a left hook to the neck, but Brock continued to placo the cleaner blows and evaded Smith's wild rights. In the next round Brock continued to use his left well. Smith connected with two solid left hooka and in a sustained rally Brock scored well to the body. The fourteenth round wa« a repetition of the pTeviOUB one, with Smith forcing the pace. There was nrach claiming in tho concluding session, tae referee beinjc, v kept busy breakinsr the m"U apart BfoeliNecored with 3eve r nl . straight lefts, but Smith's blows, left to tha body and head, and right to the body, were th~ heavier. The decision ir. favour of Smith met with a. mixed reception. Feather-weight Contest.

The feather-weight contest of 10 rounds I between M. Flvnn. of Sidney, and J. Whit- I tome, of Auckland, was a fast bout. It j was close and interesting for the first five I rounds, but in tli* concluding stages it wm apparent fthat Flynn had the measure of hi* opponent, who v#»ry in twit thre# rounds. Wliittome eave a display, but was clearly outpointed. Flynn boxed cleverly and vigorously from start to Wish. uainsr both hands weightily and effectively. The first round was full of action. Whittome scored a couple of straight lefts, but Flynn hooked a good left to the body sad later sent over a ripbt to the head, Flynn tried, to land his right to the jaw at the opening of the second rmmd. but Whittome blocked well. In a good deal of close wcrk there was little to rh~-•-» between them. Toward the end Whittome placed left and right to the jaw. Both snowed cleverness in the next session, good body blows being exchanged. Whittomeplaced a (road right to the head and Flvnn upper cut a arood left to the body. Both blaced good straight lefts at the owning of the fourth. In a busy rally subsequently Flynn did the hotter work. Whittomis miss* , inr several times with his ritrht. _ j Flynn continued to do good *work in the i fifth session, and was the chief assessor. He continued on top in the next round, though Whittome fought back in (rood style. ! The following session was all in favouf of j Flynn. who scored freely with -i<»hts to the head and lefts to the body. Whittome was ! -»*rv tired in the last couple of rounds, and j Flvnn received a well-earned decision on points. Mr. F. Burns officiated as referee in both contests.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

J. Keeniin. the Auckland professional lightweight. who accompanied the Uew Zealand amateur boring- team to Australia, wm offered two engagements in the Commonwealth. One was against- the- English boxer Josephs a.nd another with the Queensland boxer. Bradley. The Auckland champion, however, decided to return with the New Zealand team, but- may eeek engagements in Australia within, the next few montlie. C. Blackburn, the amateur light-weight boxer, who recently went to Sydney with the object of entering the professional ranks, is said to b« showing good form in Australia. J. K&tn&n strifes that up to the time he left for.Auckland with the Dominion amateur boxing team Blackburn had taken part in two preliminary boutp. The first he hftd won with a knock-out in the second round, and ! he had received the decision on points in j the second bout i