BOXING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1872, 13 February 1920, Page 2

BOXING.

MEEKIN LOSES IN NINE ROUNDS. Press Association. DUNEDIX, February 12. \ boxing match between Tommy lien. middle-weight champion of Australia, and Dave Meckiii, welter-weight champion ol the Orient, took place to-night. It was scheduled 1") three-minute rounds, for a purse or MOO, £230 going to the winner and £l7O to the loser, and was held under the auspices or the Otago Boxing Association. The contest proved rather disappointing from the spectators' point of view. In the third round Mcekin went down for nine seconds to a counle of short-arm jolts to the jaw, and he was obviously dazed, and went down again for eight and seven seconds. In the ninth round be was down again for eight, and then for seven seconds, and the referee stopped the light, and gave the verdict to Cren. BARTLETT RETIRES. Press Association. tiISBORNK, February 12. In a 15 round professional heavy-weight boxing contest, between Tom Ilceney (Gisborncl and \V. Barticlt (Murchisoui, Bartlett quitted after the eighth round, declaring that Hccney was too strong, and that be himself would have no chance of success. The display was not a one-sided one, but was fairly tame.