BOXING

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1683, 1 June 1904, Page 56

BOXING

LONDON, April 28. The management of the National Sporing Club generally contrive to put something good on their programme during Epsom week, and on Monday mg. last their piece de resistance was a fifteen-round bout for £IGO aside between the smart American bantam Jimmy Walsh and "Digger” Stanley , a very promising member of our eightstone fraternity. At the commencement Stanley could not quite size up his vis-a-vis, who sparred in the crouching swinging style common to boxers “from over the way,” and was continually leading feet out of distance. Finding himself at fault and losing points Stanley then rushed to close quarters, only to find that in-fighting was Walsh's forte, and to receive some disturbing body advantage. In the next round a left on round that Stanley found his form and commenced to ply a straight left with advantage. In the next round a left on the throat put the Londoner off form for a while, but the ensuing rounds were grandly contested, Walsh paying particular attention to the oody, while Stanley rapidly reduced the American’s lead with facial “Digger” nearly brought; off a coup with the°right, but though his blow made Walsh shiver from head to heel, the stranger was clever enough to prevent his opponent putting on the finishing touch. Recovering rapidly. Walsh set about Stqnlev with exhilarating vigour, and the Londoner made tracks round the ' ring. But he “came again” in the last two* rounds and with his long left ra 7 pidly ran up a good sequence of points, and at the close gained the verdict. It was a desperately near thing between the pair, and neither mams backers would have been surprised if the referee’s verdict had been a draw.