THE MERV. WILLIAMS-PARKER CONTEST.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18659, 7 April 1926, Page 11

THE MERV. WILLIAMS-PARKER CONTEST.

TO THX r.DITOH. ot "thk press," Sir, —Kindly grant me a little space in your columns to ask the judges of the Christchurch Sports Club if they would not mind giving a shoft explanation of (what seems to a lot of us to lie) their weird methods of deciding winners in boxing contests —for the benefit of the unenlightened. Last night, almost to a man, the crowd.of 'fans in. the King Edward Barracks .vociferously protested against tho decision giveh in favour of Parker, and, to my thinking, rightly so, as Merv. Williams seemed to nave the better of the exchanges in nearly all of the lo rounds, beating Parker in nearly every department of the game except perhaps in the in-fighting, when Parker used hefty jolts to good effect. Being myself an admirer of/Parker, I should naturally like to see him win, especially as he is the local man; but give honour ■where honour is duel It must be very disheartening for a strange boxer to try himself out on our local talent knowing himself to be up against what he was last night, as fiar as the judging was concerned.

Of course we all know we cannot all be judges, but a judge does not require to be either a magician or a super-man and, assuming that there were a thousand fans there last "night, I think you will agree,- Sir, that a fair percentage of them were just as capable of giving a fair decision as either of the judges or the referee, and 'if those sort of decisions are going to continue the crowd will become disgusted, and the most manly and cleanest sport in the world will be killed in consequence as far as the Christchurch boxing-loving public is concerned. , Judging from what one reads, the Christchurch Sports Club is in anything but an enviable position just at present, and affairs like that of last night will hardly serve to place the club on its legs again.—Yours, FIGHT FAN. April 6th.