BOXING.
tBV TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 SYDNEY, Jan. 3. Grime scaled 9.0. V and Butcher 10.5!. Grime’s admirers never expected the match to finish so quickly. Grime was small, in comparison with the massive Butcher and weight considered it did not appear a iair match. Butcher towered over iiis crouching opponent and drove several hard rights to the head. Grime’s evasiveness amused the crowd tvho roared its applause. In the fourth round Butcher coming in with a long left. Grime ducked and drove the right to the sopir plexus. Butcher fell on his face and rolled over in pain and was counted out. Tommy McGrath outpointed Al . Brown 9.8 in a technical knock-out m the seventh round. MELBOURNE. Jan. 3. Alf Stewart beat Ernest Tymcke in the- sixteenth round when the referee stopped the match. BOXING PROHIBITED. BERLIN. Jan. 2. The Soviet has prohibited boxing in Ukraine, declaring it does not improve its workers health and awakens rough low instincts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 4
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