A WILLING FIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 3

A WILLING FIGHT

CASEY OUTPOINTS CARROLL VERDICT MEETS WITH HOSTILE RECEPTION The crowded audience which assembled at the Town Hall, Wellington, on Monday night, to see the professional boxing contest between Harry Casey, middleweight champion of New Zealand, and Jack Carroll, welterweight champion of Australia, saw a set-to between a fighter and a boxer. Casey was the fighter, and Carroll the boxer, and at the end of 15 willing rounds the judges awarded their decision to Casey, a verdict which met with a very hostile demonstration from a large section of the big house. The weights were announced as Casey lOst 6|lb, and Carroll lOst 4lb. When the gong went, Casey came crouching in, and rushing his man to a neutral comer, rained a fusillade of blows to the 'body. Back in midring, Carroll showed that lie was at home at infighting, and did quite well at long range work with his Jem Mace stance. The Australian brought a good left jab into play in the second round, and scored well with it, using his feet cleverly the while.

Casey opened the third aggressively, and, rushing his man to the ropes, attempted to land with swings, but Carroll took them on Tils gloves. They warmed to it, apd some hot exchanges were witnessed in which honors were easy. Casey seemed the more rugged of the pair, and kept boring after his man. The styles of the two men were dissimilar, Casey favoring a crouch, while Carroll stood bold upright in the good old British style. In the fifth, Carroll gave a taste of his quality by plying both hands to the head and body with speed. Casey tried for the solar plexus with the left, but failed to get- borne. He then rushed his man, and dropped him with a beautiful right swing, which caught Carroll on the cheek and lifted him off his foot. The Australian sprang to his feet at once, but the gong must have sounded sweet music to him. Casey kept after his man in the sixth, but- Carroll made a good recovery and Was still 'boxiug coolly.. In the close in the seventh Casey jjolte'd' the Australian's head back with short uppercuts, and also slammed a left to the midriff. Carroll, however, was about with a. beautiful straight left which took the bark off the Now Zealand champion's nose. In the eighth, Casey appealed because there was ,too much water on the Australian, but ho forgot there were rivers running down his own back. They went at it with a will, and. the Australian gothome heavily with ihe left to the face. Casey evened up with a powerful right to the body. CARROLL PUZZLED. Casey opened the ninth aggressively, and narrowly missed with his right and left swings. Carroll seemed'puzzled with Casey’s smother, but scored with light left jabs to the face in close. In .the next session Casey went in to finish the argument, and hard right and lefts to the body had steam behind them. Casey, boring yn» ran into two snappy lefts, but the New Zealander got more than his own back by slamming the left hard downstairs.

Carroll plied the left io effect opening the eleventh, but Casey again paid attention to the body. The twelfth was marked by infighting till Carroll again got busy with the left. Casey, however, again bored in with right and left to the body, and took a tame round. The first incident of note in the “Devil’s round” was a solid left hook to the body, which went down to Casey’s account. Carroll scored with a couple of lefts to the face, but Casey, who was the more rugged of the pair, pushed his man to the ropes, and again slammed a left, rip to the body. Carroll missed by two feet with- a left swing starting the fourteenth, but got two lefts to the face in mid-ring. Carroll’s much-vaunted right hand had not materialised so far.

Casey went in to finish the Australian in the' last round, but Carroll fought back gamely. Several times Casey rushed his man to the ropes,' but Carroll cleverly evaded punishment, and was fighting back gamely when the final bell clanged. Mr. Earl Stewart had an easy task as third man in the ring, as the men fought a very clean battle. The judges, Messrs. P. W. Woods and B. A. Guise, gave their decision in favor of Casey.— Dominion.