HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22755, 16 December 1935, Page 12

HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING

BRILLIANT NEGRO FIGHTER WIN AGAINST UZCUDUN NEW YORK, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 10 p.m.) Joe Louis continued his sensational ring career in Madison Square Garden to-night, scoring a technical knock out against Paolino Uzcudun after 2miu 32sec of the fourth round a scheduled 15-round bout. In 13 years of fighting it is the first knockout suffered by the rugged Basque, and a record indoor crowd of 20,000 paid 128,000 dollars to see the phenomenal negro-pound out another victory; bringing him so * much closer to the heavy-weight championship.

The bout was not particularly exciting as actually most of the fighting was in the last 15 seconds before the referee stopped hostilities. In the first three rounds Louis angled for an opening, which he found in the fourth, and he literally finished his opponent with a single blow. It was a terrific right to the jaw that toppled the Basque and sent him flat to the floor, with the whole of the left side of his face split. Nevertheless, he heroically pulled himself to his feet, but Louis moved in, landing two more blows on his totally helpless opponent, upon which the referee signalled the end of (he fight. Uzcudun weighed 14st 121 b and Louis 14st 411 b.