UNINTERESTING FIGHT

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 3

UNINTERESTING FIGHT

WILLIAMS BEATS GORNIK LATTER retires through injury BIG MEN LACK SNAP AND SPEED It is not very often Wellington boxing patrons see big men in the ring. The reason is because good men over ten stone are scarce, and those that are offering their services are not as attractive as the lightweights. Two boxers, Merv Williams and Max Gornilt, who have done very well in Australia’amongst the huskies, proved this statement when they met at the Town Hall last night. They were willing enough, but lacked the speed, snap, and cleanness of hitting that u. eiiarac terised tnose of the lighter classes. j.t was an uninteresting light tnat came to an unsatisfactory conclusion just before the thirteenth round, when Gornik retired through an injury to his leg. Williams sent him down in the eleventh round and he twisted his leg oaaiy and after limping round for a session was forced to give up. Williams is a solid man who can punch ?i arcl, . n ae lacks nippiness, in hitting. Gornik is an honest boxer, but little more can be said about him. ti *. ol Si ik sc £ l&d * let 12lb and Williams list /lb. Both looked as if they were carrying a pound or two too much. 1 the bout described opened the session with two ligut letts to the face and blocked a ngbt swing by Gornik. Williams was boxing confidently and was moving quicker than his opponent. Gornik connected with both hands at close range towards the end of the round. Gornik opened more confidently in the second round, and in a clinch connected three times with Ills right to the ear. He also made play with his left, but the blows were light ones. Gornik appeared ™..{*» the* stronger in the in-fighting. Williams made his man miss badly on three occasions at the beginning of the third round. The session was a poor one, with a great deal of ill-timed hitting and clinching. Williams’s left sunk into Uormlrs body at the commencement of tile fourth. Gornik rushed his opponm/mi- *' V 0 lightning lefts stopped him. Williams landed a solid left to the face, but Gornik blocked the right and scored with a right to the body. In the ensuing clinch the men exchanged light punches. There was p great deal of infighting m the fifth round, but there was a lurid patch in the colourless background of clinches when both stood toe-to-toe and swung both hands. Gornik rushed his man, but, his right to the side of the head caught Williams back-mov-ing. GORNIK AGGRESSIVE Gornik was making the fight in the 61 . ii: .-“ e lan<le <! a right to the ear and a left to the body, but Williams steadied his man with a good left to the chin. Williams poked out his left and ran after it on several occasions, pushing Gornik in the face. Gornik scored with a left to the face in the seventh and nnssed with another. Then followed a lot of hugging and a section of the crowd counted the men out. The men livened up a bit foT a few seconds, but up to now their boxing had been of a rough kind of stuff. Williams shaped better the eighth. He hooked his left to the chin and Gornik dropped to the floor, but was up again at two. A solid •left to the face by Williams steadied his man again, and he just missed with a sleep-producing right. Williams rushed his man to the ropes, but Gornik sprung in with both hands swinging. The flail of fists was easily evaded, however. Williams was full of confidence in the ninth. WILLIAMS FIGHTING STRONGLY He was fighting strongly, and landed solidly with both hands, causing Gornik to cover up. The latter quailed under a solid bombardment, but sprang at Williams and hit to the head with both hands just before the gong. The lentil was quiet with Williams chasing up a retreating man. Gornik showed a good defence, however, slipping under his opponent s leads, but ne was too slow in , retaliating. Gornik sent home a solid right to tli© side of the face at the close of the round. Williams sprang in and bowled his man over with a left to the body at the beginning of the eleventh. Gornik rose at nine, and seemed to have tir-fi- left leg when going down. Williams forced him to cover up, but he ‘Jjllivered a great deal of punishment, i n© twelfth round was quiet, Williams leading, and Gornik slipping inRHle. j.ho latter was limping badly, but bitting back gamely. He was unable, owing to his leg, to come up to scratch 1 u the twelfth, and the referee, Mr Earl hlewart, announced Williams' as the winner. Williams was ahead in points. THE PRELIMINARIES Two bantams, G. Thomas <Bst lib) and K. Larson (7st 121 b) provided a willing bout of four rounds. Both showed a certain amount of cleverness, but Thomas, the moro experienced of the pair, was ahead in points when the final gong sounded. Larsen is a very promising [ml, and with a few more fights should hold his own with the best. There was a deal of fancy stuff in the !>out between J McKeown (Bst 21b) and W. Priestley (Bst lib). It was not boxing however, and the crowd got more omusemont from the antics of the men than from the "exhibition" of fighting. It was not wrestling, and was not jazzing, but a mixture of both. McKeown won. A better bout was provided by P. Keith <Bst Clb) and J. Callaghan (Bst 121 b). Keith led early with the left to Uip body, and there were some sharp exchanges in the middle of the ring. Callaghan scored with a nice straight left to the face on two occasions, but subsequently did not use this weapon as’ much as lie might have. He was too much inclined to swing his right, and when he missed Keith landed hard with both hands. Keith caught his opponent with a right to the chin in the second, ond put him down for six, and just before the bell connected to the solar plexus solidly, and Callaghan doubled VP on the floor. He got up at eight, ana rho gong went immediately. The third round saw Callaghan boxing better, with Keith fighting confidently. In the final session Keith sent home a solid right to the clnn, and Callaghan lurched against tho rope dazed. Tlio referee rightly 6topSed the fight, and awarded the bout to .eitn. , A ™?rX ou ?:l o °kl n ff lad named P. Moran (fct 121 b) did not last long against tbe confident J. Rodda (9st 111 b). Rodda went in and hit his opponent from all angles. Moran, after figuring for a minute as a punching ball, took the count for six, and half a minute later took the full count. LIGHTWEIGHT CONTEST ' PURDY WINS ON POINTS. Per Tress Association. AUCKLAND, September 21. -lhe lightweight boxing match between C. Purdy and R. Trowern resulted in a victory for Purdy on points in a fifteen round contest