Surprising End To Boxing Contest

Chronicle (Levin), 29 January 1949, Page 5

Surprising End To Boxing Contest

WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. The return professional boxing contest be'tween Allie Sands (Australia) and Ian CrUickshaiiks (Auckland), profesJ^nal welterweight champion of the Dominion, staged by the Hutt Valley Boxing Association in the open air at the Petone recreation ground tohight had a sufprisiitg endihg, Sands bfeing declarod the winner after tlie gong had Bounded to end the s'eventli rotmd. The most surpriseil man. of the crowd of about SOj present was Cruickshanks I who after marching around the ring vaulted over the top rbpe. in the contest between the' paif in the same ring carlier in the month the refefee '( M f. Alf Gleve'rley) was blamed in. soille qihutel's for no't having stopped the contest after Cruickshanks had gone down for the fourth time in the tentli round. Mr. Cleverley was again referee tonight. SandS, who scaled lOs't 'SJlb to Cfuickshanks ' lOst 4.1b, hai the bfetter oi th'e contest. He liit h'ard. with. both handb to the he'ad and body in every rouhd, but Cruickshanks made effectiv.e play with a straight left to the face and ecored with a solid riglit to the head i» the seventli round. Sands. forced the paee from the flfth rbund and brought his right ihto play With

telling effeet. "As he was going Cruickshanks had .no hope of winning, and I did not want to see hiiti htirt, " stated Mr. Cleverley after the contest which was scheduled for 12 rouadfli