TOM HEENEY’S VICTORY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 13

TOM HEENEY’S VICTORY.

BERRY BEATEN ON POINTS. FULL FIFTEEN ROUNDS FOUGHT. A MASTERLY DEFENCE. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 30. Since Tom Heeney beat Charlie Smith, of Deptlord, at the Aluert Hall in March, tne New Zealand champion has had no contest until this weea, when he met Tom Berry, the European cruiser-weigHt champion, and defeated him in a 15-round contest on points. During the interval Heeney has remained at the George Hotel, at the quiet village of Colnbrok on the borders of Buckinghamshire. He has kept in good training, and he appeared at the King, Blacktnars. the other night looking the picture of health. When I saw him in his dressing-room afterwards the contest seemed to have- had no more effect upon him than a game of football. Berry is a man about 5j years of ageand, being only a cruiser-weight, he had to concede from Blb to 101 b to his opponent. With tha exception of a match with Marino Trinder with whom he drew. Berry has not had a good deal to do in recent months. Before this match, however, he was given a fortnight’s thorough preparation under his manager, Mr Harry Williams, at Brighton, where he had the advantage of boxing with Jack Stanley and a number of local amateurs. It was anticipated that ho would have the stillest fight in his career in meeting the heavyweight Heeney. This it proved to be, though no one could have fought more gamely and taken so much punishment throughout the whole 15 rounds. There were some interesting minor bouts at the ring as an introduction to the great ©vent, and as a matter of fact one of the 12-round contests provided a better display of boxing than the major event. Caution on both sides seemed to bo the key-note of the Berry-Heeney event. Berry is acknowledged to be the more scientific boxer, and Heeney took few chances with open standoff fighting. On the other hand. Berry, who spent tie greater part of the time against the ropes, had a marvellous defence. Heeney afterwards acknowledged he had met a really tough opponent. From a spectacular point of view the match was not of a high standard, for close work with heads touching or with heads and shoulders touching, was the order of the time. IN-FIGHTING. Ou taking the centre Heeney immediately opened with a powerful attack, lie shook Berry with a right lead to the jaw, and only just missed the mark with a left counter. There was quiet determination on Hoency’a part in this first round, and evcntuall” Berry went to the ropes with Heeney_ hitting hard. Most of his blows were ineffective, howsvtv, and the gong sounded with both fighter.! unruffled. It \vas evident that Berry’s science was not to be used much in attack against his heavier opponent. In the second round, when Berry came in with a short left and a right, Heeney drove his right up undci the defence aud increased his advantage. Close work and heavy battering well guarded marked the whole of the second round, the New Zealander always forcing Berry against the ropes. On the least opportunity to get free, however. Berry would dash out into the open and try a blow with his lett, but again and again Heeney bore down on him, and the in-fighting continued, Berry often getting in some short hooks to the bead. The boxing warmed up towards the fifth round, but it was much on the same lines all along. Heeney paid plenty of attention to the body and employed both hands for hitting, whereas the Englishman did not often use his right except in endeavouring to parry or block the left hooks and jolts of the New Zealander. Berry continually "ave ground, trying to keep out of range, but Heeney forced his way in and did his best to wear Berry down. A little more liveliness characterised the eighth ->und. On one occasion when Berry was pinned against the ropes he managed to get a succession of swinging hits in, one t two of which were effective, but they failed to make any impression on his opponent. Again, in this round Berry got Heeney : nto one of the corners and kept him there for the space of half a minute, but it was one of the few occasions on which the New Zealander had his back to the rones. Quite early in the contest Berry was apt to hold, and the referee had to warn him several times. His work was never as clean as that put in by Heeney. BERRY’S CAUi’IOUS DEFENCE. The ninth and tenth rounds proved punishing oi.es to both men, and throughout they were hardly ever, a yard apart. Berry boxed craftily, and save few openings, even though he was held against the ropes. Several times in the twelfth and thirteenth rounds Heeney found his opponent’s jaw with his right, but the blows failed to make much impression. Berry was taking his punshment well, hut none the less as fighting back in a verv gallant manner. It was amazing to see the heavier and stronger man banging his right almost continuously to the side of Berry’s head without preventing the latter from going back into the fray full of light as soon as the storm of blows was over., Heeney' tried to force the pace in the last and fifteenth round. In the open he missed a hard uppercut. The two closed in the middle of the ring with heads together. Berry got a hard hit to the New Zealander’s jaw, and then ho was forced against the ropes. Heeney continued to hit hard, but made no more impression on the Englishman. When the gong sounded the New Zealander, who was declared the winner on points, had a happy smile for his gallant opponent. “What’s the trouble? Only that I lost a 15-guinea coat last evening. I went in to dinner at a local hotel and hung my coat in the usual place, and when I returned the peg was there ‘but no coat. 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