AMATEUR BOXING

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 10

AMATEUR BOXING

GOOD CONTESTS AT HAWERA.

SEVERAL WINS ON KNOCK-OUTS;

There was some'good boxing tet-ter-fighting in-the Hawera amateur box ing' on- Monday j attendance whs well pleased with the (Otakeho), 8.7. teat; K. rr --"riL (Patea) V 8.4, on a technical knbck-but in the ’third round. Nichol 5s the bigger-and fasterboy. and had a big points lead'when he terminated th fight in the third-round with a solid a tack He uppercut- Horridge, the. punch landing in the pit of-the stomach. porridge, who had taken a good d ® al , o£ punishment, groaned and went down. M . Maxwell then stopped the tight. P. O’Keefe (Midfiirst), 10.5, was a-ht-tle- lucky to be. adjudged the winner £hfe bout with Reid (Eltham), 10.0/. a decision that was .not generallyupproved. Reid’s punching was cleaner and he of ten got under his opponents guard. Reid, however, was frequently forced to (Kaponga), -10.13, made short work of Cowley'(Ratapiko^,.lo.B, scoring a technical knock-out half-way the first round. Cowley opened promts ingly With some straight punches, but the Kaponga man settled down l to some solid sledgehammer blows which had his opponent groggy. To save the massacre the referee stopped the fight when Cow ley was moving round in a daze. _ H Hudson (Otakeho), 10.0, beat R. Willis (Patea), 10.9, after a rather mixed contest which thoroughly pieced Jte crowd. Hudson , did fairly well m the early part and held his lead by tempting Willis in the concluding stages by holding judiciously. Both mixed it freely at intervals. . Persistent hitting with an open rig glove saw S. O’Keefe (Midhirst), 10.0 disqualified in the' second round of lus bout with L.’Lines (Rowan), 9.10. Lines fought very neatly. ' _ R Nairne (Marton), 11,6, beat Rumball (Ratapiko), 11;2,. on points m an interesting bout. Rumball made the Marton boy. miss'a lot in _the first round but in the next two rounds Nairne piled up the points with a snappy left. He swung some heavy rights, but as he always gave ample' notice he dnF not do much, damage with'this weapon. It was-a very good-natured fight. . H. Ellis (Patea),’lo.4, was too big for T. Muir (Riverlea), 9.11, and won on P °G. Thomas (Ngaere), 9.3, beat Jock Wilson (Marton), 9.4, narrowly on points. The bout, which was a good display, provided a study in infighting. Practically every punch was at close range and there was‘little between them.'The decision after four solid rounds might have gone either way, but just at the beginning of the last round Thomas landed several punches at long range, which was probably enough to sway the issue. P. Murphy (Kaponga), 12.4, knocked L. O’Keefe (Midhirst), 12.0, cold in the, second round. , The first round was fairly even, with. Murphy 1 doing the ' leading. In the second round Murphy went after his man. A succession of left jabs had O’Keefe rocky. Then a left drive and a heavy right had. him down. Murphy would not draw back and it was some seconds before he did so and the count started. There was’ a remarkable demonstration, many spectators leaving their seats to congratulate the winner. It was some . time before O’Keefe recovered. . P. Huzziff (Ratapiko), 8.11, beat K. Ham (Eltham), 9.0, on a technical knockout. Huzziff made the pace throughout and though he missed a lot. he often connected. Ham fought back gamely and danced to the -brisk tune that Huzziff called till midway through. the last round, by which time he was very exhausted. G. Downs (Marton), ,9.0, beat. H, Anderson (Patea), 9.4, after, a real battle. Downs, a cool and methodical, puncher, slashed Anderson heavily in the .first round, doing particular damage with his right. The last round saw some hectic milling with both boys tired at the finish. Downs gaye a very attractive display, though Anderson, .was nothing behind him in gameness. ,R. Finlay (Matapu), 10.4, hung on just long enough to. beat B. Down? (Marton) on points. Connecting freely with -a straight left Finlay, did most of the scoring in the first two rounds, for. though Downs threw some weightypunches most of them were wide. Downs connected more frequently in the - third round and in the last round had Finlay shaken with some heavy blows, mainly rights. Finlay kept on poking his left out, and as he was still standing up he had to win.