BOXING

Southland Times, Issue 21823, 28 September 1932, Page 8

BOXING

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS MOSELEY AND PASCO DEFEATED PRENDERGAST WINS (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth; September 27. The New Zealand amateur boxing championship tournament commenced to-night. There are 75 entrants from practically every association in the Dominion, and only one, K. Cowan (Ashburton), failed to pass the doctor. A heavy programme of 28 bouts concluded near midnight. The standard of boxing on the whole was good. The tournament will continue to-morrow and on Thursday. Results: FLYWEIGHT. W. McKay (Gisborne) 7.9 J beat A. Deer (Wanganui) 7.7 on points. F. Finnegan (Wellington) 7.11 beat F. Bruno (Auckland) 7.11 on points. BANTAMWEIGHT. D. Roebuck (North Taranaki) 8.5 beat L. McLaughlan (Manawatu) 8.4 J on points. C. Croul (Auckland) 8.3 J beat J. Hogg (Whangarei) 8.4 on points. T. Loveridge (North Taranaki) 7.10 J beat P. Kelly (Stratford) 7.11 on points. FEATHERWEIGHT. E. Carrie (Wairarapa) beat T. Holden (Manawatu) by default. K. Buckley (Otago) B.loj beat C. Raynor (Marlborough) 8.13 J on points. B. Turner (North Taranaki) beat H. Donkin (Hawkes Bay) 8.12 J on points. J. Franklyn (Gisborne) 9.0 beat T. Whatnaugh (Wanganui) 8.9 by a technical knock-out. P. Hawes (Christchurch) 8.9 beat J. Moseley (Southland) B.IIJ on points. LIGHTWEIGHT. W. Purdie (Aunckland) 9.6 beat J. Donoghue (Wellington) 9.7 on points. H. Hughes (Whangarei) 9.3 beat F. Hopkins (Manawatu) 9.8 on points. WELTERWEIGHT. E. Fail (Christchurch) 9.131 beat F. Hutchens (North Taranaki) 10.5 on points. M. Candy (Manawatu) 10.5 beat M. Peichi (Wellington) 10.7 on points. W. Hogg (Napier) 10.4 beat C. Symons (Motueka) 10.3 on points. L. Christiansen (North Taranaki) 10.511 beat H. Howie (Whangarei) 10.0 on points. W. Howson (Greymouth) 10.3 beat S. Lister (Ashburton) 10.5 on points. C. McKnight (Hamilton) 10.51 beat A. Burke (Wanganui) 10.3 J.

MIDDLEWEIGHT. A. Daster (Marlborough) 11.4 J beat J. Ford (Manawatu) 11.11 on points. M. Mitchell (Stratford) beat S. Lister (Ashburton) by default. J. McMahon (Taihape) beat K. Cowan (Ashburton) by default. J. Mansfield (Wellington) 11.41 beat W. Pasco (Southland) 11.3 J on points. A. E. Steer (Whangarei) 11.2 j beat S. Matchett (Gisborne) 11.0 on points.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. T. Mullins (Stratford) beat K. Cowan 'Ashburton) by default. . M. Strickland (Wellington) 12.4 J beat P. McCarthy (Auckland) 12.6 on points. H. Reeves (Manawatu) beat W. Pasco (Southland) by default. HEAVYWEIGHT. F. Prendergast (Southland) 11.9 beat T. Mullins (Stratford) 11.10 on points. SOUTHLANDERS’ BOUTS SUCCESS OF PRENDERGAST. MOSELEY RECOVERS TOO LATE. (Special to the Times). New Plymouth, September 27. Mansfield was very quick on his feet against Pasco and started scoring with a straight left. Pasco swung hard rights to the body. It was an even round. In the second round Mansfield swung a hard right to the body, Pasco being sluggish. Mansfield scored with lefts to the jaw and was fighting well at close quarters. It was Mansfield’s round. Pasco started to open up in the third round with sound two-handed fighting and won the round easily. The decision must have been close. Pasco was not his usual self and only showed form in the last round. In the Hawes-Moseley bout, Hawes immediately swung a right to Moseley’s jaw, sending him down for eight. Moseley fought well and kept away, but Hawes connected and Moseley went down for seven, when the gong went. Moseley was going better in the next round, scoring with a straight left and winning all the in-fighting. Hawes was connecting with swings to the head. Moseley outboxed Hawes in the last round with fast lefts to the jaw and won the round easily. Moseley was unlucky in getting hard knocks in the first round as he was rapidly gaining the lead. It was a great contest. In the first round between Prendergast and Mullins honours were even. In the second Prendergast scored well, making Mullins miss. There was some hard slogging by both in the last round. Prendergast connected with a left hook to the jaw and Mullins went down for seven and later was down for eight with Prendergast knocking him about the ring. PROFESSIONAL CONTEST SCHMELING DEFEATS WALKER. TECHNICAL KNOCK-OUT. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, September 26. Max Schmeling (Germany) defeated Mickey Walker (America), former world’s undefeated middleweight champion, in the eighth round with a technical knock-out in a bout here to-night. Schmeling outweighed Walker by only 141 b, his weight being 13st 611 b. and Walker’s 12st 611 b. Walker’s weight came as a surprise, being 51b more than in any previous fight. Round I.—Walker left-hooked to the body, Schmeling banging Walker’s body in a clinch. Schmeling shook Walker with a volley of whistling hooks to the jaw. Schmeling floored Walker with a right to the chin for the count of six.

Round 2.—Schmeling’s right to the chin staggered Walker, who fought back gamely, but again Schmeling nailed him with three straight rights. Walker was wobbly and badly hurt, but flung himself on the German, belting at Schmeling’s body. The latter retaliated with half a dozen uppercuts in close. He landed three more, then in a rally Walker pinned the German on the ropes and hammered his head and body. Round 3.—Walker bounced a left hook off Schmeling’s chin. The German returned with a sharp right and they slugged at close quarters. Round 4.—Walker sent a left hook to Schmeling’s body and caught a hard right on the chin. They exchanged hooks and with locked heads swung their fists to the body. Walker shook off two smashing rights to the head to hammer Schmeling across the ring. They were in a clinch at the bell. Round s.—The German was wild,

with a left hook and Walker nailed him with a right upper-cut and nearly floored Schmeling with a left hook to the body. The German bent in pain as Walker ripped him around the ring, sending the German’s head back with lefts. Schmeling smashed a right to Walker’s jaw and sent another hard right to the head at the bell. Round 6. —Schmeling was the more aggressive and landed a right which opened a gash on Walker’s upper lip. There was new fire in the German’s attack as he jammed Walker with a left to the head and forced him to cover. They traded rights to the head, and Walker drilled a right and left to the body as the bell rang. Round 7.—Schmeling jabbed away at Walker’s face, but Walker banged three lefts to the body, then traded rights to the head with the Teuton and drove him across the ring with a body attack. He pinned Schmeling to the ropes and shot his head back with upper-cuts and traded rights to the head at close quarters as the round ended.

Round 8— Schmeling jabbed Walker on the nose and rammed a right to the jaw. Walker came back with a right to the chin, but again the German shot his head back with rights which sent Walker reeling. He went down for a count of six under a right to the chin. Walker was almost helpless as the German smashed him about the ring. His left eye was closed. Another right floored Walker for nine. Walker reeled, stumbling from one side of \the ring to the other, gamely fighting, but in a terribly weakened condition. Schmeling, however, was unable to floor him again. Walker was reeling in his own comer as the gong rang. Walker’s manager refused to allow him to continue. OTHER CONTESTS GEORGE COOK’S SUCCESS. London, September 26. In the Blackfriars ring, in a twelve round bout, George Cook knocked out the German, Horst Hinzmann, in the ninth round. Cook moved speedily, landing freely with both hands. Hinzmann shook Cook with a right to the face in the fourth round, but Cook, generally predominant and far cleverer, scored well at close quarters. He attacked strongly in the ninth round and drove Hinzmann to the ropes and knocked him out with a left swing to the jaw. McCORKINDALE DEFEATS MEEN. London, September 26. At Leicester in a fifteen-round bout Don McCorkindale knocked out Reggie Meen in the fourth round.