BOXING
LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE WON BY RAYNER JARVIS RETIRES IN NINTH ROUND (United. Press Association) BLENHEIM, August 14. Clarrie Rayner (Blenheim), former New Zealand featherweight champion, lifted the lightweight title from Jack Jarvis (Eltham) last night. The loser retired at the end of the ninth round after being outpunched and outstayed nearly all the way. The crowd was kept in frenzied excitement by the most dashing exhibition of fast, two-handed punching by both contestants seen for years. Rayner, weighing 9.7 i, was half a pound heavier. Jarvis, opening aggressively, held the upper hand in the first half of the opening round, but the challenger weathered the storm and retaliated tigerishly to break better than even on points for the round. From then on Rayner, maintaining the offensive, waded in with everything going to win round after round. In the sixth he dropped Jarvis with a right to the chin, but the champion rose immediately. Jarvis rallied in the eighth, but at the end he was unable to continue as the result of the heavy blows he had received on the upper left arm, rendering it virtually useless. Rayner owed his victory to harder and faster punching and abandoning his usual crouching counter-punching tactics.
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Southland Times, Issue 23587, 15 August 1938, Page 11
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