BROKEN HAND

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 10

BROKEN HAND

CAMPBELL'S ACCIDENT

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tlie: Evening Post.") CHKISTCHUBCH, This Day. , Why Alan Campbell: failed to knocl? out Broadfoot in thiS contest for the heavyweight title in. the Civic Theatre on Monday night mystified quite a number of people ■ whoi were close enough to the ringsid© to' vwitnesS the many opportunities that the Qaniaru lad seemed' to throw away." Behind Ms apparently inexplicable conduct, however, is a story of com'age and endurance. t ['■''& '.■: ' ; ,' . " Just before the: first'round ended— it was a fifte6n»round^cpntest—Campbell connected with the side of Broadfoot's head/ and fractured his hand in two places' (as- an examination subsequently proved). However, he gave no sign of the pain he was enduring, and, made a fast, aggressive^ fight all the way through; and did not give. Broadfoot- enough 'time' to speculate why he was holding back his iight hand on occasions when a. well-timed; punch would have settled matters' then and there. ' ' ', . . \ ' Campbell called into the "Press office yesterday! with his ha ad in plas-ter-of-paris, and explained the reason for his failing to press his advantage to the utmost. .' "I was simply unable to use my right hand,1" he explained,"and it must certainly have'looked as though I was not doing; my best. Fortunately my hand did not swell until after the glove was removed.'' .-...■■ ..■,:■ -•■;■■