IN THREE ROUNDS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 5

IN THREE ROUNDS.

McLAGLEN KNOCKED OUT. Many people in New Zealand will remember Curtain Victor McLaglen, who gave exhibitions of his system of bayonet-fighting in the Dominion early in the Great War period. McLaglen afterwards was on active service in Mesopotamia-. Nowadays he is a professional heavy-weight boxer in Great Britain.

But McLaglen is some distance below championship form. A few weeks age in London ho was beaten by Prank Goddard in three rounds. Some months ago Goddard lost the English championship to Joa Beckett, who recently was knocked ont by Georges Carpenticr in 70sec. Of the Goddard-McLaglon fight, the London Sportsman says: “Although occasionally Goddard did well in brief infighting, McLaglen had the advantage in boxing exchanges at long range. He fought his man well with both hinds, and at the end of the second round Goddard was certainly behind for points. In a way this was partly expected, as Goddard has no particular pretensions to be regarded as a boxer. The third round brought about a com* piete change. Goddard had the staffer punch. He had shown his capacity to take a punch, hut when it was up to his opponent to do so, lay soon failed. He was first damaged by a kind of upper-cut, and began to stagger. Goddard missed him at first, but soon got a couple of hard blows to the face. McLaglen went weak, and a light hook sent him to the floor for a count-out. Superior power of blow won Goddard ■the fight.”