BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 3

BOXING.

WELSH DEFEATS MATT. ,WEL.LS. ; • : . LIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright -London', November 11. Welsh beat Matt. Wells on point?, in. o twenty-round contest, for tho .■ British light-weight, championship. .The ine,eting took place.at the National Sporting.'Club. Welsh had I ,slightly .the advantage in the second and third rounds,. The referee, in the fourth. round. repeatedly. ordered the men to break away. -Wells finished.with two : good • lefts.'...'. : The referee in the fifth Toitnd summoned both men to the ringside, and ordered them to box cleanly.,. Welsh had the best of the sixth -and. seventh round. , There wore splendid. exchanges- -in the eighth, Which was the- best up' to : the, present. Honours were even. : : Wells's face in the ninth began to show sighs of his opponent's handiwork. -Tho tenth round was full of good work. -Welsh: had slightly the best of matters, and at the half-distance was, ahead on points. •There was much 'clinching in, the eleventh and twelfth, and both men wero cautioned. '••-.. .Welsh's work in the fifteenth, and six* teenth rounds was. someirha.t; tagged. • He made a good sequence of points, but,"Wells made very strenuous efforts, .and-in the seventeenth round landed several blows. The eighteenth round.was strenuously contested.. Wells;. in the nineteenth,. realised his position, dhd .desperately.. attempted' to knock out his opponent. . ~ ■