Campbell Collects Heavy Crown

NZ Truth, Issue 1274, 1 May 1930, Page 13

Campbell Collects Heavy Crown

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.)

DOXING like every other sport v has its favorites. On some it smiles all the time while others it will not give a go at all. In his short professional career Alan Campbell, the Oamaru heavyweight, has found things easy and m a short space of two months he has fought his way to the heavyweight crown. ■' This dispute was settled at Christchurch op Monday night and Jim Broadfoot was the other side to it. Jim did not exactly make .things too hard for the Oarnaruvian and at one stage of the scrap it seemed that boxing could do with stipendiary stewards. / It was noticed, however, that Jim'was sporting a stomach that does not usually go with fighting. He looked a bit like the boy that had patronised the ginger beer barrel too often, and m addition to giving away eleven pounds m weight he also gave away something m, physical fitness. Campbell went quietly ahead m the first four rounds piling up a lead of points by clean, straight

hitting, which Jim. seemed m no way anxious to counter, but then. Campbell lost his punch, and it was heartbreaking to^sec good chances that any experienced fighter would not have let go a-begging. Brcadfoot stood off for a sitting shot which never came, and Campbell romped m a points winner by a big margin.. ;lt was a dis- .. appointing fight, though the winner can do much better. jßroadfoot's style troubled him, and he showed a lack of experience and knowledge m the few tight situations which did occur.