BOXING.
HEENEY DEFEATS SAVAGE. Pbr Prkss Association. NAPIER, October 28. A professional boxing contest on Saturday night between Jim Savage (Wanganui) and Tom Heeney (Gisborne) lasted two and a half minutes. Savage early inflicted an injury to his opponent’s eye, but Heeney very soon sent Savage down for two seconds and immediately landed left and right. Savage took the count for* three. Savage staggered across the ring, and Heeney expected the towel to be thrown in., hut ori the referee's “ box on ” he went in and lauded a solid right and left, which ended the contest. Amateur bouts resulted:— I. Scarfe (Napier) beat It. Stevens (Hastings). D. Clinton (Palmerston North) beat D. M'Kenzie (Napier). T. Donovan (Napier) beat C. Lane (Hastings). BELGIAN’S SUCCESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY'. October 28. At the Stadium. Louis Flees, a Belgian light-weight, defeated Paul Dernsky on points in a hard-fought contest. Demaky was downed five times. MELBOURNE BOUT. MELBOURNE, October 28. Mark Gornik knocked out Jack Dunstan in the eighteenth round. Dunstan was leading till the fifteenth round, after which he went, to pieces and was knocked down several times.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 10
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