BOXERS WARNED
Punches Pulled In Bout At Auckland PA AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. Two Australian light heavy-weights. Ross Pippett, of Melbourne, and Frank Farrington, of Sydney, were warned twice by the referee, Mr E. C. Armishaw, to stop pulling their punches when they met in a 10-round professional bout last night. Pippett was declared the winner on points. Mr Armishaw asked Pippett for more action in the fourth round, saying: “I have seen you do better than this.” In the seventh round he told both men: “I don’t want to see you pull your punches again.” A small shower of pennies was thrown into the ring at the end of th® eighth round and again after the final
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 5
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117BOXERS WARNED Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 5
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