BOXING TOURNAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 8

BOXING TOURNAMENT

DUNEDIN TWINING COLLEGE \ FAST AND? CLEAN FIGHTING j The annual boxing tournament of; the, Buhediri Training College was: held ;last evening,- in the; Miramar Hall. The boxing, although, hot of a particularly high standard, was clean and willing throughout. • The Training College officials responsible for the arrangements were ;Mr R. E.* Cocklin (secretary); .Mr R. Greaves (scales steward); Mr A. Goodman (gloves steward); Messrs' MacArthur, Barnett, and C. Smith (official seconds); Mr G.' Bisset (re-' suits steward); and Mr H. McMillan (announcer). Officials provided by the Otago Boxing Association were Messrs R. Morris, R. Fulcher and W. D. Boreham (referees), J. Kilmartin, O. E. Brown, and S. Brown (judges), W. D. Allan and J. R. Glover (timekeepers). ->O. '•-■: *£ ; jv;. v Exhibition Bouts A no decision bout was fought between two midget pupils of the Christian Brothers' High School, T. Cox (sst 21b) and T. O'Connell (sst 101 b). A two-round heavy-weight exhibition was also fought between N. H. Unwin and A. M. Rutherford. . . • ; Featherweight First Round E. Hamell (9st 61b) defeated F. C. O'Connell (9st 41b) in the first round. E. Allison (9st 61b) gamed the decision from W. Barsdell (9st '-lb) in the second round. Final . E. Allison beat E. Hamell von; points. •',. This bout opened with a fast ex-, change of blows to the jaw. Hamell repeatedly boxed in, but'Allison was too fast for him. Towards'the, end of the second round Hamell tried to force the pace arid make j up lost ground, but could not Dene-! trate Allison's guard. Light-weight First Round R. Greaves (lOst) beat A. Cargo (lOst) on points. T. Nelcer (lOst 21b) fought a tieing bout with R. E. Cocklin. Final R. Greaves beat T. Nelcer. Nelcer opened the fight with a series of straight lefts to the jaw, Greaves contenting himself with telling blows to the body. The second round was marked by hard hitting, Greaves landing alternately on Nelcer's face and body. In the third round Nelcer suffered an injury to his left wrist and was unable to continue. , ;.;,! j Middle-weight .: y : :\-\\ First Round ;... A. Bremner (11st) fought solidly todefeat I. Ross (list 41b). J. T. Moodie. (list lib) a bye. '+' .-.. ■■•'.■' '• ■'■' Final A. Bremner beat J. T. Moodie. - , The first round was fast and clean, i with littl ■■■■ between the contestants.; In the second and third .roundsj Bremner fought hard and gamed the j decision on points. '•■';■ -■ . Light-heavy-weight J. F;. Moodie (list lib) beat R. Gillespie (list 41b). Moodie fought solidly, and his punches landed with force. Heavy-weight Urwin (13st 51b) beat Opie (13st). This bout was outstanding, for the rapid exchange of heavy blows. In the openipg stages the men stood toe to toe and punched it out Opie was unable to stand up to the quick succession of blows and tired considerably towards the end of the first round The second round opened with an exchange of straight lefts to the jaw. Then Urwin opened up and connected repeatedly with Opie's face. Opie was unable to stand up to the rain of punishing blows, and the referee stopped the bout. '"