BOXING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16813, 28 November 1928, Page 12

BOXING

PARKER BEATS MCDONALD

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Pres 9 Assn.l

SYDNEY, Nov. 27. At the Leichai'dt Stadium .to-night the New Zealander, Vince Parker, beat A 1 McDonald on points after a very good fight.

PATTENDEN KNOCKS OUT

BROWN

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

LONDON, Nov

At tlio National Sporting Club the bantamweight championship holder, “Kid” Pattenden, knocked out Young Johnnv Brown in tlie twelfth round.

AN EXCITING BATTLE

FAIRHALL OUTPOINTS TROWERN

A HARD-FOUGHT BOUT

The big crowd which assembled at tlio Town Jlall, Wellington, j on Monday night to see the 15-round professional boxing contest between the hard-hitting Australian, Tommy Fairhall, and the clever Aucklander, Reg. Trowern, certaiuly received their money’s worth. It was lighting as distinguished from boxing, and the crowd were kept on their toes with expectation throughout the entire contest. Boxing beautifully, Trowern dominated proceedings right up to the eighth round, when''the hardhitting Australian connected with a halfarm right jab to the point, and, like lightning, brought over the left to the head. Trowern went down like a log, and recovered his scattered wits only to be floored again wilii a right hook to the head. This tinier Trowern stayed down for eight, and on ris.ing was again sent to the canvas with a short-arm right jab to the head, but this time the gong intervened at the count of two. Trowern again received severe punishment in the eleventh round, being put down for eight with a right to the heart, and laid low just before the gong went, with a right half-arm jab to the point. The Aucklander made a great recovery, and did well for the remainder of the contest, but the two heavy blows he received in the eleventh had taken a lot of steam cut of him, and Fairhall rightly got the verdict, j It was a spirited battle, which greAtly pleased the crowded house. Trowern’s wonderful gameness was the theme of general comment at the close of the battle.

The weights were given as : Fairhall, 9.12 f; Trowern, 10.2, Trowern.led off with a couple of light lefts to the face, but the Australian evened up by ripping the left to the body, and slamming a short right to the -side of tiie head. In a mix-up in Trowbrn’s corner the Australian pushed the Aucklander off' feet. In the second l Fairhall scored twice to the head early (with straight, lefts, but missed badly with a left hook. They clapped on the pace, and the remainder of the round saw some willing exchanges. In the third, a weighty right to the solar plexus was scored by Fair hall, but the Aucklander jammed his man on the ropes and gave him an anxious half-minute. Three good straight lefts went down to Trowern’s account just before the round closed. Trowern looked a picture. Salmon pink in color, he hopped on his foes like a sparrowhawk. In (lie fourth Trowern poked tlio left twice into the Australian’s face, and vigorously bristled him to the ropes. They opened the fifth with in-fighting, and Fairhall then drove the right hard to the body. The Aucklander then got, the Australian into a neutral corner and twice pounded the right hard to the head.

Trowern was boxing very coolly and got home a beautiful right, opening Hie six, hut Fairhall replied with the same weapon. The ' Aucklander got homo two more good rights before the round ended. Fairhall scored a right to the body and a left to the face opening the seventh. Trowern then essayed a right, but Fairhall slipped inside it and beat the Aucklander to the punch. Quick as lightning he hooked the left to the point, and Trowern went down for nine. On rising, Fairhall went in to finish his man, and a hard right to the head put Trowern down again for eight. A third right made the Aucklander again hit the mat, but the gong intervened at the count of two. Trowern made a good recovery during the interval, and fought back gamely throughout the eighth round. Fairhall attempted to end it with blows to the heart, and got a couple in heavily, but Trowern seemed to thrive on punishment. In the ninth, Fairhall again landed a hard right to the head, but, al though it shook Hie Aucklander from head to heel he kept on his feet. Trowern was himself again in the tenth, and once niore took the aggressive. He made Fairhall miss badly three times in rapid succession. Fairhall slammed another right to the side of the- head, in the eleventh, but Trowern took most of it on the glove, and drove, the left straight to the face. Fairhall then slammed the right hard to the heart, and Trowern went down for eight. On rising, the Australian landed a heavy right to the head and Trowern went to the canvas, but the gong cut the count short at four.

Both men were feeling the effects of the fast work, and 1 things were much oufeter in the twelfth, in which a good deal of close work was seen. Fairhall got home a right to Hie body, and a left to the face in the thirteenth. Fairhall let loose two wicked uppercuts, but both missed their mark. Fairhall" kept on the aggressive in tho fourteenth round, and paid particular attention to the body. Trowern planted a nice left to the face, and rushed his man to a neutral corner, where Fairhall was hooted for firing a “rabbit-killer” punch at his opponent. Trowern made pretty play with 'the left in the last, round, hut Fairhall landed another heavy right to the head. Trowern then tore into his man, and was scoring heavily with both hands to the head when the gong ended hostilities.

The judges, Messrs. J. E. Staples and E. Perry, gave their decision for Fairhall. Mr. Karl Stewart had . a comparatively light task as third man in the ring.