PROFESSIONAL BOXERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 12

PROFESSIONAL BOXERS.

FAIRHALL DEFEATS TROWERN HARD HITTING CONTEST. AUCKLANDER'S GREAT RECOVERY [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN con respondent.] WELLINGTON. Mond-iy A large crowd assembled to-night to see the 15 rounds professional boxing contest between the Australian, Tommy Fairhall, and the clever Aucklander, Reg. Trowern. It was fighting as distinguished from boxing, and the crowd were kept on their toes with expectation throughout the entire contest. Fairhall was awarded the decision. If. was a spirited contest, which greatly pleased the crowded house. Trowern's wonderful gameness was the theme of general admiration. The weights were given as, Fairhall, 9st 1221b., and Trowern, lOst 21b. The New Zealandcr dominated the fight until the seventh round. Trowern then essayed a right, but Fairhall slipped inside it and beat the Aucklander to the punch. Quick as lightning he hooked the left to the point, and Trowern went down for nine. When he rose, Fairhall went in to finish his man, and a hard right to the head put Trowern down again for eight. A third right made the Aucklander again hit the mat, but the gong intervened at the count of two. Trowern made a good recovery during the interval and fought back gamelv. Throughout the eighth round Fairhall attempted to end it with blows to the heart, and got a couple in heavily, but Trowern seemed to thrive on punishment. In the ninth round Fairhall again landed a hard right to the head, but although it shook the Aucklander he kept on his feet. Trowern was himself again in the tenth, and once more took the aggressive. He made Fairhall miss badly three times in rapid succession Fairhall sent another light to the side of the head in the eleventh, but Trowern took most of it on the glove and drove the left straight to the face. Fairhall then scored with a right hard to the heart and Trowern went down for eight. Wh-*n he rose the Australian landed a heavy right, to the head, and Trowern again went to the canvas, but the gong cut the count short at four. In the twelfth there was a good deal of close work. Fairhall got home a right to the body and a left to the face. In the thirteenth Fairhall misled with two uppereuts. H» kept on th 3 aggressive in the fourteenth round and paid particular attention to the body. Trowern scored with a good left to the face and rushed his man to a neutral corner. Trowern scored with the left in the last round, but Fairhall landed another heavy right to the head. Trowern was scoring heavily with both bands to the head when the gong sounded. The decision for Fairhall was unquestionably the right one.