DONOVAN AGAIN
TARANAKI BOXER GETS TK.O. Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. In a boxins contest yesterday I scheduled for 13 rounds. Tommy | Donovan (Waitara) defeated Tommy Griffiths I Dunedin>. by a technical knock-out in the twelfth round. Bout I men scaled 8.13. . . 1 It was an extremely willing contest, in which Griffiths, by his cleverness in the earlier rounds, saved himseii j much punishment, but Donovan v.«t» J always predominant. Griffiths ’" a twice down in the tenth round. The end came in the twelfth rouau. when Donovj a ripped a right to the : body and right crossed to the heartGriffiths went down for a count oi nine. He rose, and Donovan rusnea ! him to the ropes and crashed rights into his jaw. Griffiths '' knocked out. but remained erect oj j hanging on to the ropes. The refere
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 793, 14 October 1929, Page 12
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