SYDNEY STADIUM.
Les .D'Arcy w* Fritz Holland. / ■ - .. . ■.i . . A Middleweight Mix- up. D'Arcy. Disqualified for Hitting Low. (Special to -Truth.") At the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night last the great structure was Packed to , overflowing .to witness the return battle , beweeri Les D'Arcy (N.S.W.) and Fritz Holland (TJ.S.A.). Advance notices conveyed the information that Les was even more eager to get. at Holland than on the first .occasion, and that he was m good "nick," while Fritz* m his training, had never shown better form since he had been m Australia.' His release from his irksome, bond with . Tommy Burns seemed to have put new life into him. ' On ' Saturday night the fierce, persistent attack of< .D'Arcy foiled, to a great extent* .-Hollands-s kill. The. Yankee, however, badly, disfigured' the Cornstallsf's, face and;. nearly closed his left eye. '.This was /probably the reason that B'ATpy ; struck low so frequently. His (Offences m this' direction were so juraier-aus that he was disqualified m the eighteenth round. Hundreds of northerners attended, and again lost heavily. They were resigned. » to their fate,' however, as they recognised that he might have won had- he not, fouled.
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NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 6
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192SYDNEY STADIUM. NZ Truth, Issue 483, 19 September 1914, Page 6
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