ELUSIVE KAY

NZ Truth, Issue 578, 15 July 1916, Page 11

ELUSIVE KAY

Too Swift and Clever for Stone

Uever but Unexciting Twenty Rounds

' (By Special Cable)

■ After recently defeating Mick King, the middleweight champion of Australia, at Melbourne, by reason of his exH traordinary, eluslveness, Fred Kay was expected to be \ put to a real test on Saturday night, at the Sydney Stadium, when his opponent was the : equdlly; wary and slim "/Tid," Harry S'toriej the New York newsboy, but Kay was equal to the occasion, and never once gave the "Ylddisher Boy" a look m!

The weights were: Stone lOst, Kay lOst 51b.

Four thousand people, more or less, turned up to see the fight, and few were prepared for the unexciting, slow monotonous contest that followed. ;

Stone fought with more than his usual aggressiveness, but for the full twenty rounds he found Kay too slippery, and the result was a correct and \opular decision, for the lanky Austra-