BOXING.
BILLY GBIME DEFEATED
B x Cable—Press Aa-ion.ation— Copyright. tl.t-alian nnU N.Z. <:«!''• Association;. (Received September 16, 7.130 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 15. At Madison Square Carden, Honey Boy Finnegan, deteated Billy Grime, on points. . , _. Cl rime weighed 327 Jib and Finnegan 1301 b. , . ~ Grime early proved effective at close quarters, but Finnegan bombarded him with rights to the head. . In the second round, Grime stumbled against the ropes, and 1 ( innegan hit him, the crowd booing. Grime began to tire about the iourth round, and both men then had bleeding The Australian took heavy punishment in the sixth and seventh, as he was trying to recover from weariness. He then 'fought inadlv in the eighth round, landing repeatedly on Tinnogan s jaw, and in the ninth and tenth, greatly strengthened, and had much the better of the exchanges.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 5
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