A Mauling Match.

NZ Truth, Issue 120, 5 October 1907, Page 6

A Mauling Match.

There were lively times at Broken Hill the other week, when George Rueualf, the New iZealander, and Bill Laing, of Melbourne, met to decide what. was termed the heavy-weight championship of Australia. Shades of Bill Squires and Bill Smith ! There was a purse of 150 soys hanging to the event. In the contest, the Maorilander was outclassed from the start. Lain? had much more powder m his blows, and he was quite as scientific as the Maori. In the third round, Laing started m to finish up the session. He got all over Ruenalf, and had him to the kamptulicon five times. Reunalf didn't relish such treatment, and got going with hands and feet, nutting the hoot m a couple of times. The referee awarded the fight to Laing. . Ruenalf rushed his foe and roughed him jn the floor, where he hit and kicked him. Willinr* hands started a tug-of-war with the pair, and dragged them asunder. The Maori freed himself and took to one of Laing's seconds. Then the crowd took a hand at the game, and there were a few lively minutes. The ring was eventually cleared. and quietness reirrned -suoremc. The action of Ruenalf was disarinroved. It was that of a demented wowser rather than that of a respectable ring fighter. Reunalf should certainly be tabooed from the rinf and ho sent to some tabcniaclc where h n h- sr-v;ig.'.<ing and the hoot is the liM'-mark of superiority and all-round i>iety..