BIG NEGRO WINS AGAIN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 5

BIG NEGRO WINS AGAIN

JACK DEMPSEY’S CHALLENGER WEINERT SCREAMS AND GASPS KNOCK-OUT IN SECOND ROUND By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Couyrieht Australian and N Z Cable Association. (Received .Tulv 3, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. Harry Wills, the negro challenger for Jack Dempsey’s title, "knocked out Charley Weinert in the secqnd round of a scheduled 16-round fight. Wills outclassed Weinert from the first hell, and the latter was finally felled by a right upper-cut to the chin. Previously, Wills had sunk several mighty “blacksmith slams” wrest-deep in Weinert’s middle, taking his breath out and - making him gasp so violently, that he could be heard ten rounds from the ringside. Weinert was greatly distressed after the knock-out, and was carried to

Wills’s comer, where the seconds or both men worked over him. Wills, although warned before the fight against the practice of hugging his man close with his left and pounding his kidneys with his right, soon had recourse to this violent and painful gesture, at which Weinert screamed for the referee and the crowd hooted. Weinert was slugged clear out tof the ring during the first round, and was badly punished throughout. Wills occasionally hit low, though he was warned.

TWO CHAMPIONS MEET

GREB DEFEATS WALKER THRILLING CONTEST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 3, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. Harry Greb. retained the middleweight championship, defeating Mickey Walker, the welter-weight champion, in a 15-round fight during which

•..he fortunes varied, but Greb held the upper -hand. Greb had Walker half unconscious on the ropes in the fourteenth, and would havo put> him out hut He was too excited to deliver the finishing blow. Joe Lynch and Jack Sharkey fought a draw, and Dave Shade knocked out Jimmy Slattery, in preliminary fights. Reuter's Telegram Th© Greb-Walker bout was the most thrilling since Dempsey and Firpo fought at the same park two years ago. Greb was the aggressor in most of the rounds. Neither man waa knocked down.