BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1075, 14 March 1911, Page 7

BOXING.

o ■ 0 PAPKE DEFEATS SMITH. j> By Telegraph-Press Assooialion-Copyrlßbt. Sydney, March 13. 3 ; Tho boxing contest between Papke and 7 Dave Smith resulted in a win for Papke 0 in the seventh round. The throwing in g of the towel saved a knock-out. 1 Papke was too strong for Smith; ■ I KUDD DEFEATS JEROME. The match between W. Eudd, the New Zealand heavy-weight champion, and » Jerry Jerome, the Queensland aboriginal, jj which was fought in Sydney, drew a large I audience. The weights were given as: i Eudd, list, lib.; and Jerome,, list. 3lb. - For the first two rounds the coloured man | escaped' many heavy swings, lie showed j "cleverness peculiarly his own in back-' ' moving Eudd's leads, and often swung; in a heavy left. His awkward style bothered Rudd a great deal. First ho would shape up left hand foremost, then,by a quick ; movement change to an entirely opposite • attitude. From the third until the knockout ill the oighth round Eudd looked all over a winner, excepting in the fifth round, when Jerome, by right swings on the chin, momentarily dazed the New Zealand champion', who Was forced to hang on. He soon recovered, and bv right and left to tho body doubled Jerome almost in two. Hudd paid particular attention to the body, where hc_ lauded very often with heavy lefts and rights, ■and an occasional jolt to the side of the head 'with either hand; Jerome opened up the eighth round by swinging a feeble right and left to the head. Eudd jolted left and right causing Jerome to back out of a clinch, when a hard left-swing caught the Quoenslander. It rattled Jerome, whose left swing to head was countered by a straight left from Eudd, and, following it up, ho swung a right, putting Jerome down and out. . "HOCK" KEYS A WINNER: ', "Hock" Keys secured the referee's decision over "Kid" M'Coy in Melbourne recently, ■ but ho was not entitled to it, according to Australian files. Keys weighed.9st. Slb„ and M'Coy 9st. 310. Both were in grand condition, but M Coy always beat his .older opponent for pace. The battle was waged with great spirit for the first ten rounds; after that Keys fell away, and did scarcely anything more than block and evade as. best a tired boxer .could, his . opponent's lead. Keys, iit-a,<ld'it<jftit to his extra weight, had a big. advantage in length of reach ami ring experience, but M'Cov more than counterbalanced all this by his youth, rapidity of hitting, and resourcefulness.- The boxing was oiien and clean, and. there was little or "no infighting, thanks to the attendance of tho • referee, who went between the boxers immediately they came together. ~J l' £°}' was advised to go steady from the fifteenth round; he was then apnarently a certain winner bar a knock-out. lo make victory doubly sure, however, he attacked Keys vigorously, and battered him so that "Hock" was forced to clinch and hang on to save himself; " i Eventually the referee walked to Keys and I should say (states the writer quoted) no one was more surprised than the ex-hght-weight champion when Mr Jieckett elevated his arm to denote his victory. The extreme followers of Keys cheered, but the great majority of those present, whether admirers of Keys or MCoy, were profoundly surprised. Somo gave vent to their feelings in cryinjr out: Well, what do you think of that?" .ELLIOTT HORS DE. COMBAT. Owing to a severe illness, "Billy" El hott will be unable to engage in a boxintr contest for at least four months to come according to his medical adviser '