SCIENCE WINS THE NIGHT

NZ Truth, Issue 1144, 3 November 1927, Page 12

SCIENCE WINS THE NIGHT

Hay Prevails Over His Heavier Opponent, Broadfoot

(From "N.Z. Tiuth's" Special Auckland Representative.)

Monday night's contest between Artie Hay (10.7) and Jim Broadfoot (11.2) was worthy of a better house if only to see science and a useful left down brawn and sheer doggedness.

FOR the first few rounds Broadfoot made a spectacular display of bouncing aggressiveness, taut the taller and slimmer Hastingsite met him with a left which was always there at the right moment. Broadfoot adopted his steer-like tactics, coming at Artie with a bound and driving the lighter man across the ring by sheer weight. Though the first few rounds were nothing out of the ordinary, Hay showed that he was not only fighting with his hands, but with his head. Hay displayed fine generalship under these battering assaults, dodging neatly with clean footwork out of reach, or by well-timed ducking. The Waihi man began to force things m the fourth round, landing some leathery thuds on Artie's torso, side-

stepping a nasty right hook and coming into holts. In the clinches Hay made it clear that he could do good work with short-arm jabs to the heart of his opponent. Towards the end of round five both made it rough, and Hay drove Broadfoot into a neutral corner, where for a while it was well mixed.

Broadfoot's onslaughts, with which nearly each round began, led to a succession of clinches. From these Hay would come out with the Waihi man always at the end of his left, and m round six Hay showed that he was not loafing on the job by putting Jim through the ropes, and following it up with a neat whack with his left to the chin. Now and again Jim would connect with Artie, but the latter, being on the retreat, did not get the full force of the blows. Round eight opened with lots of pep, and it looked as if Jim had tumbled to the fact that if he wanted the mustard he would have to reach for it. The other man's science, however, caused him to miss repeatedly, and having scored one or two to Artie's ribs, he found himself invariably at the end of that masterly left, with a neat right swing to follow it. It looked as if Broadfoot had again determined to get an early bus home at the ninth, but Hay's headpiece worked on all cylinders. Having the reach, he was no slouch

at making the best use of it until Jim's lips ancl eyes indicated that there was more m those lefts than most imagined. Hay's left must have hypnotised the pride of Waihi, for, again and again, he impaled himself on it, and m doing so seemed to forget Hay's right. Broadfoot tried some right upper- i cuts as sleeping draughts, but Hay ! side-stepped, them, taking some beefy swings on the body. • It was after a bit of a rough house m the tenth that Hay got home with a pearl of a right uppercut to Jim's jaw. This was followed by a slugging match m the former's corner.

From then on, with Broadfoot's clock showing signs of wear* Hay began to show his real generalship. Jim's bull rushes became more ill-judged and Artie's work more deliberate. He got home with lefts and rights to the jaw and face of the other, pelting him through the ropes. As the fight continued it was hard to say whether Jim was stalling. He looked thoroughly groggy for seconds on end, and Hay

ay stood off when to the onlookers it seemed as if he had only to step m and give Jim his quietus as he lolled against the ropes. Then with a grin Broadfoot would come to life again, and after a wild slam or two flop into the arms of Hay with all his weight on the Hastings man. Parted by the referee, Hay, as they broke, would get m one more of his endless lefts, following it up with a right for luck. From the thirteenth there was little doubt of the result and a man less game than Jim might have gone under then when Hay put him to the canvas for two. Hay had the appearance of being suspicious of his man's tactics. Half-way m the fourteenth Jim came to light with swings from right and left to Hay's body and a right to the heart, but he propped on the end of Hay's left once again. I Jim's chances were ended — he was I groggy and he slumped to his corner. Ten seconds had not gone of the last round when the referee raised Hay's hand aloft. An interesting fight thus ended.