OLYMPIA BOXING CONTESTS
HUGE CROWD AT BECKETT-GOD-DABD FIGHT. (Bee. June 18, 9 p.m.) London, June 17. There was a record attendance at the Olympic boxing contests to witness Frank Goddard boxing Joe Beckett for .£2OOO and a gold cup, the winner to meet George Carpentier. Fifteen thousand scats were booked. It is estimated that the receipts totalled .0,000. The notables present included Admiral Beatty, Alcock, and Brown, the aviators, and many society Indies.
Goddard was slightly favourite, but Beckett knocked him out in the second round. Beckett scored many short jabs to tho face and the body in the first round. The referee cautioned Goddard for clinching. Beckett began the second round in hurricane style, scoring heavily. Goddard went down for nine seconds. On resuming he was unable to withstand Beckett's onslaughts, and a swift left to the chin, followed by a right, ended the fight. Townley severely punished Hardwick, whose seconds threw in the towel in the twelfth round—Aus.-NjZ. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190619.2.47
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162OLYMPIA BOXING CONTESTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in