POOLEY OUTPOINTS CADMAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 868, 15 July 1922, Page 10

POOLEY OUTPOINTS CADMAN.

A Tame Fight.

(By "Truth's' 1 Special.)

When the Northern Boxing- >Association decided to match the two Aucklonders, Albert Pooley and Laurie Cadman, there were many who predicted that x a mistake had been made and that at least one of those signed up should have hailed from outside the province. . : However, the N.B.A. thought otherwise, and their judgment was borne out to the full on Monday evening at the Town Hall. Long before eight o'clock crowds began to pour into' all- parts of the hall and by 7.50 p.m. hundreds,' were being turned away unable to gain admission. The house may not have been a rejjord one, but it was getting on that way. The first of the preliminary bouts was 1 a three-lap, affair between L. Buckley (10.8) and B. Wade (10.9). It was a rather crude scrap m which Wade got the decision. Quite a different scrap was the four-lap contesr between J. McCarthy (8.10) and R. Keenan (8.9). In the first round McCarthy fought well; m fact, he did so all through, but Keenan was, too clever and snappy, and his lighting-like hooks had McCarthy bothered!' badly m the third and fourth laps and the decision m Keenan's favor was correct. McCarthy v is\ improving, but Keenan is too clever for him. .The pace was on all the way when the Auckland provincial champion fly? weight, E. Halford (7.10) met J. Postleweight (7.10). , The final round was a thriller, both lads fighting every second of the, trip. Halford got the decision — a correct one. but Postleweight put up a great fight. Two bantams m H. Brown (Frankton) and E. Green (both 8.2) fought six two-min-ute rounds. Brown, swinging: both Jeft and right, missed an awful lot, but Green was much too clever, and m the majority of rounds badly beat the Frankton lad. Referee Burns gave' the decision to Brown, and Ore*- oa»i .c.6*

sider himself unlucky. Featherweights m C. Trowern (Whangarei), 8.12, and E. Collins, 8.13, danced through six rounds. Both were fast on their feet and hopped about like a couple of sparrows on a roof. Frank Burns |gaye it a draw, no doubt thinking that neither deserved a" victory. Then came the big fight. Pooley was first ■to enter the ring, having with him m his corner the ; Donovan brothers and Freddy Craig-. Cadman followed, having as his seconds Harry Millard, Jock Graham and Hamley. The weights were: Pooley 12st. 21bs., Cadman list. 81bs. Cadman opened the first score by flicking Pooley's jaw with a swift right, but several of his punches after that went astray. He walked around like a, dog would ; a eat, apparentlj r sizing Pooley up and no doubt found his height and reach a proposition. Cadman sent m some blows of which one or two. landed, but the majority were back- moved by Pooley, who occasionally whipped m a good right to the, body. In the third round Pooley thought he would -let Cadman know he i was there and he took the best way of doing it by sending home some stinging punches, one of which, flush | en the face, had the red running from Cadman's nose- Pooley was already getting all over Cadman and m /the fourth lap he had him bothered, and the>latter was missing badly with his punches. P6oley stalked' Cadman round the ring but di^ not do muca punching, m fact, m the fifth lap neither struck a decent -blow which was m strong 1 contrast to the previous •■rc-und. Cadman aimed two stingingrights at Pooley's jaw, but they both missed, while Pooley, when m close, jabbed his left into Cadman's . face, making Laurie wince, and all the time claret poured from his nose. Pooley was not only holding his own, but he was getting all over Cadman, .whose only (hope even so early as m the seventh round was to land a knockout. Just after they started the seventh, Frank Burns called a halt and ordered Cadman's seconds to wipe the water off their man's body and arms. When the ninth lap arrived, Pooley seemed to be enjoying himself immensely, tout he (was not foolish enough to forget that Cadman could land a stinging punch, and therefore he preferred to jog along quietly and just make Cadman miss while he himself, landed one or two to the face. It was m the tenth that Cadman tried to make a fight, and landing a rig-ht to the body, and following- it up, Pooley was can-ied off his feet. He was up immediately and still smiling-. It was Pooley at his best, and try as he iwould Cadman could not reach the jaw. No matter how* often he let go Pooley was just out of reach, and the whole business he was treating as a joke. Cadman was willing enough and • a trier every second of the trip, but his star wasn't shining on the Monday, and the blow which upended McCleary he could not land on Pooley. He did a little better m the thirteenth round m f which he scored* iwith a couple of rights. Cadman opened the fourteenth as though it was time to end ,the fight, but soon quietened down when '.Pooley began to fight back. Just as the gong was about to go Cadman cut loose, and he had Pooley* on the ropes when it sounded. A knockout was Cadman's only chance, and as soon as the last round opened, he .went at Pooley like a tiger, and a hard right sent the big man to the floor, but he was not hurt, and he just rested till Referee Burns counted nine. Almost on the call of time Cadman again upset Pooley with a solid right to the body, but Pooley was up again at once, and the remainder of the lap proceeding .quietly, Pooley was declared the winner amidst tremendous cheering. Taken all through it was not a good fight.