BOXING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 8

BOXING

MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE O’BRIEN BEATS PEARCE (Per Tress Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. In a professional boxing contest i'oi the middleweight boxing championship of New Zealand, held here this evening, Maurice O’Brien (Dunedin), 11.5, beat Billy Pearce (Wellington), 11.33, hy a knock-out in the tenth round. It was a drab and uninteresting! bout, neither man showing anything like championship form. Pearce did not appear to be taking things at all seriously, and was content for a great part of tho contest to smother up, so that even had O’Brien not won by tho knock-out route he must have got the decision on points. JARVIS BEATS STOCK AN EXCITING PINISII (Par Vross Association.) HASTINGS, last night. In a professional lightweight boxing contest, Jack Jarvis (Eltham), 9.2, .defeated A 1 Stock (Napier), 9.9, on points ' at the end of a 10-round contest, The’ fight was bright and interesting, working up to three exciting) rounds at the finish. Jarvis was the cleverer boxer, his blows being cleaner, wliilo i bis defence and footwork were better, giving the more forceful Stock no op- : port-unity to come to eloso quarters. i - - | CONTESTS IN SYDNEY 1 , SYDNEY, July 15. At the Stadium to-night two 15- ( round contests wore fought. t The Canadian Dick Humphries, 10.5, t knocked out Johnny Foster. 10. G. in the c tenth found, and the American, Willard .( Brown, 10.10, on I pointed Jimmy I’ur- j cell, 10.4, r ;