BOXING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23578, 15 August 1938, Page 16

BOXING

LIGHT-WEIGHT TITLE RAYNER BEATS JARVIS (Peb United Press Association) BLENHEIM, Aug. 14 Clarrie Rayner (Blenheim), the former’New Zealand amateur and professional feather-weight champion, lifted the light-weight title from Jack Jarvis (Eltham) last night. The loser retired at the end of the ninth round after being outpunched and outstayed nearly all the way. The crowd was kept in frenzied excitement by the most dashing exhibition of fast two-handed punching by both contestants that has been seen for years'. , Rayner, weighing 9.7 J, was half a pound heavier than Jarvis. Opening aggressively, he held the upper hand for the first half of the opening round, but the challenger weathered the storm and retaliated tigerishly to break better than even on points for the round. From then on, Rayner, maintaining the offensive, waded in with everything going on to win round after round. In the sixth he dropped Jarvis with a right to the chin, but the champion rose immediately. Jarvis rallied in the eighth, but at the end of the ninth he was unable to continue as the result of the heavy blows he had received on the upper left arm, rendering it virtually useless. Rayner owed his victory to harder, faster punching, and abandoning his usual crouching, counter-punching tactics.