BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19368, 27 July 1925, Page 2

BOXING

DEMPSEY MAY MEET GREB. Received July 26, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, July 25. A telegram from Benton Harbour, Michigan, states that Floyd Fitzsimmons announced to-day that Dempsey had agreed to meet Greb at Michigan City, probably on September 19. No written contract had been signed and details had yet to be worked out. AT SYDNEY STADIUM. Received July 26, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY, July 25. At the Stadium, Grime (featherweight champion) beat Pelkey on points in an unexciting' contest, the winner showing to more advantage throughout. AMERICANISM The auditorium seethed. Glaring incandesccnts bathed in a lurid light the two perspiring youths who, naked save for trunks and shoes, pounded each other viciously about the ring. The fight was obviously nearing the finish, and the crowd to a man, was backing the sandy-haired boxer as he closed again with his swarthy rival. “Kill the foreigner!” bellowed the mob. ••'Knockout! Knockout!” The South American, a celebrity in his own country* was game, but ho crashed to the canvas before the onslaught of the favourite. Pandemonium i reigned as the referee’s arm rose and fell ten times. A shrill voice roso above the tumult. “Them foreigners can’t come here an’ lick us Americans!” it shrieked in ecstasy. The referee raised the American’s right arm in token of victory. “ Stibilowitchiowski wins! ” he announced.