BOXING

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 117, 15 February 1928, Page 12

BOXING

HOOD BEATS JOHNSON PRINCE OF WALES VISITS THE RING (Rec. February 14, 8.25 p.m.) London, February 13. Jack Hood, welter-weight champion, defeated on points Len Johnson, the coloured Manchester boxer.—A.P.A. and “Suu.” (Rec. February 14, 10.15 p.m.) ' London, February 14. The Prince of Wales paid his first visit to the famous ring, and was greeted by a record crowd, in which. London’s extremes of East and West met. The Prince, accompanied by an equerry, sat behind Jimmy Wilde, and enjoyed himself thoroughly. Airs. Burge was a proud woman. She said: "When Dick died in 1918 I carried on at his request. To-night my life's drcam is fulfilled. I have got the Rrince here to see what I call real boxing.” Happily it was a fight worth while; Hood gained rhe victory because he was superior to the Black Sphinx, his rival. The Prince of Wales had a tumultuous send-off from fifteen thousand people outside the main entrance, and ten thousand in the side streets. GRIME-GARCIA BOUT POSTPONED (Rec. February 14, 9.5 p.m.) New York, February 13. The Grime-Gfircia bout has been postponed till February 20, due to the indispositon of both boxers. Grimes’s illness is not serious, and Garcia was slightly injured while training.