A CHRISTCHURCH MILL

NZ Truth, Issue 511, 3 April 1915, Page 9

A CHRISTCHURCH MILL

Penrose v. Shutt ' The Referee. Intervenes. (From "Truth'sl: Christchurch Rep.) At the King's Theatre last Saturday, the Christchuroh Sports Club "opened its 1915 season of official stoush with a 15-round "go" between Billy Shutt, of Timaru, and Jimmy Penrose (Christchurch). The mill was responsible, not only for the dissipation of the prevailing opinion that Shutt's experience would triumph over .the forcefulness and ginger ' of Penrose, after' about seven rounds of gore, but it also justified the anticipations, which "Truth" has voiced concerning Penrose,; for the last three years, at anyrate, Penrose beat the experienced Timaruvian last Saturday m pretty well every department of the game. In the opening stages he relied mainly ON THE HEAVY ARTILLERY which has carried off most of his amateur milLs. Shutt, however, proved himto be more than an amateur, and Penrose quickly dropped into the professional groove with the Timaruvian, and manifested headwork and generalship of a degree which is seldom seen m a boxer's first "pro.-go." He amply repaid all the time which his trainer (Sandy Jack) has spent on him, and as long as his hat fits him, he'll be able to keep any New Zealand light-weight busy. Penrose s&led 9st 101b,' a pound and a half heavier than Shutt. Both men were m good condition, although the localite was just touched -with a "heady" influenza cold" and, on entering the ring, appeared to be distinctly nervous. Round 1: Penrose went right at his man. and, after landing a heavy bang on the chest, was outpointed by Shutt's footwork, and placed his goods on air. Shutt side-stepping nicely and catching his man relaxed, LANDED A NEAT LJ3FT SWING which rattled Penrose and brought the claret. Shutt displayed the better generalship In giving Penrbs> all the rope he wanted, and only occasionally putting m an effectual clout which discounted all Penrose's dust and hustle, and at the end of the round left the honors with Timaru. ' Round 2: Shutt commonced coolly m comparison to Penrose, who rammed right in* and contented himself with taking about, three punches In order to land one. Shutt, designedly or otherwise, continually left the gut expo&ed and Penrose always went fqr^it m preference to the top-piece. Twice Penrose drew- his man Into the danger zone by dropping his hands and feinting to take up a position m another quarter of the ring. On these occasions Shutt chased his opponent and waji brought up .by a sudden, wideawake swing to the jaw. Then ho tdok a tumble and didn't do it somo more. During a slack moment with Penrose. In the second half of thfc round, Shutt quickly assumed the aggressive and, breaking down Penrose'a defence, planted a couple of beauties on the mouth; and was still rattling him when the gong sounded, the round; again going to shutt; ' . ■ •' Round 3: The Tlmaropster let Penrose make the running at the commencement, but after taking some hefty short body jabs, caught his man m a corner and belabored him tellingly. It was at'this stage that Penrose, for the first time appeared to drop to the fact that he had a left. After the clinch he feinted with the right to the'ribs and BRINGING SHUTT'S GUARD DOWN, whipped In a left, a llttlo bolow the point and was following it up with interest when the gong sounded, a little too soon to overstep Shutt's credit. Round 4: Both men came at it.with a rush and some sharp oven exchanges followed. After that there was a slight lull, during which Penrose repeatedly appealed to Shutt to keep his head up. Whon the Timaruvian eventually left an opening, the local man was right Into it, and almost simultaneously, sent m a short right uppercut and a left to the jaw. Some more brisk exchanges ensued and then, right on the gong, Shutt stopped another doublebarrel—right to the jaw and left to the wind. The Timaru man, however, scored slightly more points m the earlier stages than did Ponrose towards the last, and again the honors went to Timaru, by a narrow margin. Round 5: Shutt showed early signs of sickening against Pennine's force* fulness and his FOOTWORK BECAME SLOWER and somewhat uncertain. Penrose, on the contrary, appeared to bo Junt nicely warmed up to his work and showed no signs of his early nervousness. Hl« loft connected repeatedly with Shutt's head and a plletfriver over the Tlwaruvlnn's heart forced him to shy cloar of his mutt until the latter stages of the round, when ho unearthed some fresh ginger and put It over Ponrose willingly. The round, however, easily stayed m Christchurch. Hound 6: Both men flow at en eh other and clashed In the centre of the ring, some even lti-flghting resulting. Brisk exchanges followed and honors for the round wor© nboul even. Hound 7: Penroso made all the fighting and. although Shutt's clever [defence caused many of Penrogq's icft swings to spend themsolyes harmted«ly, the latter avoldod danger OQually well ni\d, whllo gradually wearing his man down, sought vainly to draw an opening for the landing of y^an, upporcufc The roun,d easily wont to Penrose, Rounds 8 urn) 9 also belonged *o the local, man, > ; v ..-'■.' THE FIGHTING WAS WILLING^ and each man gave and took plenty of punishment. Shutt fought now. wither than boxed, and the chungc wan lo Pe»ros«'a tlUinp, hin lottn mu\ rifc'htw discomfort!ntr the visitor, whoso rusponso, though frequunt. lucked the st<4«m noeoHsary to jjiok v mun of P«nroso's hurdMffN*. Round 10: Shutt hliowqil v jrr»»ut i«!----vlvnl In tht» Htages and plun»od a couple ot loft.* to the mouth :t:wl i» hook to the jaw which forcod fVtitoNtt Into the smother. With a mlnut.- to ffo tho Chrlntchurch mnn emmpkd ?-hutt with .i heavy right to the Hba, followed l>y a straight !>ft to the henrt. Th««'

after-mixing:. was hot and Shutt went down, rather from the weight of Fehrose's rush than from a blow, lie was up again and into it willingly as the gong sounded with the honors about even. Round 11 was all Penroso's and the pace was showing plainly on Shutt, so that his smashing up m round .1?,. was fully expected. Early m the round he hooked nicely to Penrosa's jaw, but the blow was without sting. He followed up with ah. equally feeble uppercut, and Penrose, .warming up, worked his man against the ropes, where THE PAIR CAME DOWN. At it again, Penrose led a straight left .and a right of which Shutt ducked quite clear. He went down, however, j and stayed there for eight. Penrose had him quite groggy when the gong sounded. Round 13 was palpably Penrose's from the start. He saw Shutt's condition and made the best of it, Shutt going down for seven when a minute had gone. .Penrose then got him against the ropes and he went down for the Becond time, although it was questionable whether he was struck solidly on either occasion. The referee (Mr. J. Mdtr) stopped the mill at this stage and declared Penrose the winner, the verdict being a popular one. Preliminary negotiations have been made by the Cbrlstchuroh Sports Club for a match between Peter Cook and Penrose at Christchuroh on May 15. PRELIMINARIES. In the curtain-raisers, Ernie Morrie easily accounted for N. Vernall, after six rounds, Vernall being rather out of sorts. S. Manson, after going a similar distance, outpointed Len Cade, whose showing was disappointing for a one-time Australian amateur champ.