BOXING AT SYDNEY

Southland Times, Issue 22295, 10 April 1934, Page 5

BOXING AT SYDNEY

GHNOULY OUTPOINTS KELSO. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 1.10 a.m.) Sydney, April 9. At the Sydney Stadium to-night in a 15-round contest before a large attendance, the Rumanian Joe Ghnouly (9.G) outpointed Jimmy Kelso (9.12). Ghnouly’s speed and ringcraft were a feature of the bout, which was lively throughout. Ghnouly, who is a Rumanian-Ameri-can, has the body of a midget “Strangler” Lewis. He hasn’t any neck to speak of, and his shoulders are bunched up with muscles. He looks not only tough, but a puncher. He is being trained by “Slam” Sullivan (wrote Jack Elliott in a recent issue of the Sydney Referee). He arrived in Australia on the boost that he made Al Foreman surrender at the end of the seventh round of the first, match Foreman engaged in on returning to Canada from Australia. Few here are acquainted with the fact that a few weeks before he left America for Australia he made the world’s lightweight champion, Barney Ross, of Chicago, travel 15 hard rounds to a hairline decision in favour of the champion. Ross refused him a return match, and as is the way of these things, in a few weeks the public forgot how close the verdict was, and remembered only that Ross had been awarded it. But that is not all. Ghnouly twice beatover 10 and 15 rounds— “Battling Shaw, who for some time held the world’s “junior welterweight” championship; he beat Ben Jeby, who went on to win the American middleweight championship and fight for the world s title; he held “Kid” Chocolate, the last man to win the world s featherweight title in a ring, to a 15-round draw, and he drew also with Benyy Bass, another former world’s synthetic title-holder, and knocker-out conqueror of Tod Morgan, and a host of other first-class American light and junior lightweights Ghnouly is every whit as dangerous to Kelso as Ramey; with the points that his whirlwind style of fighting will give the spectators more thrills, and his battling style will give Kelso a better chance of making good than when he met the clever, smart boxing of Ramey. And Ghnouly is only 21 years of age! Unless Kelso’s holiday returns him to the ring in better form than he produced against Ramey, Ghnouly should win.