BOXING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17176, 5 February 1930, Page 3

BOXING

SARKON BEATS LECKIE VISITOR'S CLEVER WORK {Por Press Associntion.) WELLINGTON, last night. Pete Sarron, the Alabama .Syrian, gave Johnny Leckie, the Now Zcalander, a boxing lesson before a crowded audience al fclic Town Hall to-night.' There was only one man in it. Revealing ringerai't of the highest order, the American showed beautif-ul footwork and speed to do practically as he liked. Sarron rushed his man io the hopes bi the second round and drove a terrific right to the nose, from which the New Zealander never re-, covered. He had difficulty in breathing and was .spitting blood, but

gamely carried on until tho end of the ninth round, when he intimated that lie was unable tti continue owing to the difficulty he was experiencing in. breathing oh account of his nose having been broken in the second round.

It is not too much to say that the New Zealand public do not. know Low really clever a boxer .Sarron is, as there is no none in this country capable of fully extending him. _ lie proved himself the soul of chivalry this evening by refraining from unduly 'punishing a palpably beaten opponent. ~ ~ . .>.*•.' , .90 SECONDS CARNERA PETERSON :N$W YORK, Jan. 26. Primo Camera, Venice's', fighting carpentcr, the biggest heavyweight boxer in the world, hoisted his huge bulk into

tlio Madison Square- Garden ring, hit Clayton ("Big Boy") Peterson hurricane hard blows to thd jaw and body, and walked out the-• victor by a knock-out before the end of the first round. Camera, a, 3-to-l favorite, weighed 19.4, and Peterson 14.13. A fall Bouse of 18,000 watched Cameras assemble im 6ft. 6in. superstructure and annihilate Peterson, who is himself no candidate for tho Midgets' Union. At the first clang of the bell Primo waddled across on his stupendous legs and crashed into Peterson, whose feefc were whipped from beneath him, and ho lay down for the count of five. . Next Jime- it w&s a right nppercut that smashed "Big Boy," and bo took nine seconds to rise. Peterson had barely tottered. to his feet Wlietf Prime's left glove met him squarely, and he went to sleep after. a total of 90 seconds' fighting.