BOXING.
FAIR HALL DEFEATS YOLA IRE. I‘m PRV,S9 Assoc CATION. GREYMOUTH, October 21. A fifteen-round professional boxing contest was decided in the Town Hall on Saturday night, between Tommy Fairhall, •9st, 131 b. and Eugene Yolaire lOst 21 b. It went the full distance. Fairhall gaining tbe decision after exhibiting all-round superiority throughout the contest. He sent- Yolaire to the canvas in the third round for a count of nine, and immediately floored him again when he rose at three. The gong then sounded. The pace was fast in the opening rounds, hut. rla-ck-ened later. Yolaire landed a heavy blowin the final round, damaging Fa-irhall’s In six-round amateur bouts Cotter (Runangai outpointed Cleary fTaranaki). and Mettrick 'Blackball) outpointed Russ (Camerons'. SYDNEY MATCH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z Cable Association. SYDNEY. October 20. Butcher defeated Dupont in eleven rounds, the latter injuring his hand and having to discontinue. Butcher was ahead on points at the LONG BOUT. MELBOURNE. October -20. Grime defeated Villon on points in a
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 11
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