PROFESSIONAL BOXING
CROWLEY OUTCLASSED BY A FORMER PUPIL (Per Press Association) PAHIATUA, This Day. It was a case of the pupil showing his master, last night, when Ted Oxley, of Pahiatua (9st 7Bibs) completely overshadowed his former mentor Jack Crowley, Wellington, (9st. 61b.) in a professional boxing bout of ten rounds in the presence of a packed audience.
Oxley broke the bone of his left hand at the start of the second round and relied on the hand which put Crowley down in the fourth. ' There; after Crowley was sent to the canvas no less than six times until the ninth, Only the gamenesS of his fighting instinct kept him on his pins. In reply to the referee's query Crowley at last cried “Enough!” and collapsed in a corner from exhaus-' tioh. „ . ;
Oxley’s technical knock-out in the. ninth, was ah’ impressive performance under the circumstances. ’ , .Reward ,z
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 5
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