HOCKEY.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) GRIME V. FINNEGAN. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. In a fight- at Madison Square Garden “ Honeyboy ” Finnegan defeated Billy Grime, the Australian, on points. Grime weighed 127,) pounds, and Finnegan 130 pounds. Grime early proved effective at close quarters, but Finnegan bombarded him with rigid to the head. In the’ second round, Grime stumbled against the rope, and Finnegan hie him, the crowd booing. Grime began to tire about the fourth round, and both men then had bleeding faces. The Australian, took heavy punishment in the sixth and in Hie seventh rounds, as he was trying to recover from his weariness. Then he fought madly in the eighth, landing repeatedly on Finnegan’s jaw, and in the ninth and tenth, greatly strengthened, and had much the better of the exchanges.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1927, Page 2
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