TERRIBLE LEFT HOOKS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 5

TERRIBLE LEFT HOOKS.

M'GOORTY BEATS SMITH. OVER IN TWO MINUTES, By Telegraph—Press'Association—GopyHclit (Red. January 2, 1 a.m.) ■#: v Sydney, Januaiy 1. Sixteen' thousand people,' who as*' sembled at the Stadium, ■ .lUislientterJs Bay, to-night, to witness the contest between Xiddio M'Goorty (U.S.A.) and Dave Smith (Australia) for tho world's middle-weight boxing championship, received short measnro for their money.

The contest wjis over in two minutes, lasting less than a round, during which" time the American, with terrible left hooks, floored Smith four times. Smith was apparently dazed after the first fall. His seconds threw the towel in before the last count was over, presumably to prevent a knock-out being recorded.

Smith and if'Gcorty had previously met •in Now York, when M'Goorty had agreed to make the middle-weight. "Dave" Smith found it necessary to stew in a Turkish hath on the day of the contest to get. down to the weight, But M'Goorty, who was supposed to have deposited jIOO as a guarantee that he weald weigh within the limit, was several pounds overweight, when he entered tlw riiif, and the guarantee money had not been posted. The actual contest was brief, and Smith'was knocked out beforo the spectators had properly settled in their seats. In' extenuation Smith said later, "Sl'Gorty caught mo with a low? left rip. 1 am on to that punch of his now, and ho could not land it again in a hundred years." It appears,., however, as if M'Goorty pot home the same hit ngain, and his victory now makes it encumbent upon him to meet "Jimmy" Gabby and others, who are clamouring for til© world's championship title. "Judging by what one sew of the American," says ali Australian writer, "like our own mini, ho is of the stand-up s.ty'o of boxef, has .a good kiwwledgo of defensive tactics, and owns a pair of hands either possessing a knock-out. His top structuro is massive, more of the strong man than boxer order, So extraordinarily la rue .-no his neck, shoulders, and arms, that they are really out of proportion to his waist and underpins. If one were to jt«l?e him and his chest upwards, he would nwienr almost impossible to make the middle-weight limit of list. filb.; but a close observation of the rest: of hi 9 fiitf make-up suggests that he will do the weight.'