BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1927, Page 1

BOXING

Australian Sr N.Z. Cable Association.)

PRTZE FIGHTING. LONDON. July IAs an outcome of Milligan s terrific pounding nf Walker. Hall Caine has written a remarkable letter to the Daily Express, calling on someone speaking with tbe authority of public conscience, to call a bait lor such 01jrjes of savage, corrupt and degrading inhumanity, fie calls on bishop and priest, and not only those hiving honest sport, but mi every healthy minded and able bodied per-oti. Briefly lie says: "While a man. whatever his class or condition, is full of personal courage and pride in the display of his powers of personal endurance, he asks such a man to say. in me sacred name of humanity that such a gross exhibition of merciless savagery and loathsome trn flicking in human mi Bering must cease in England. Cochran replies that the early \ utorian flapdoodle Tias been written without a knowledge 01. or sympathy with a. noble science, Walker was not brutally knocked about in the light with Milligan. We are not murderers, and not: blackguards. We played the game straight and fought clearly.

' Kearns. Walker’s manager, say that Hall Caine’s strictures are piffle SYDNEY. July 3.

At the Stadium. Tiger Payne knotk ed out George Thompson in the eight’ round for the Heavyweight Champion ship of Australia. Payne was lucky t win. as in the seventh term he was al most knocked out. but in the follow imr round, hitting wildly, he manage' tE place ' his right to Thompson jaw. dropping him. This was the be ginning of the end. and Thompsons badly punished before he took th final count.