BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1927, Page 1

BOXING

(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Oct. 1. In a light in New York, Tom Heency. of New Zealand, knocked out .Jim Malone), the Boston heavyweight, in the first round, just one minute and seventeen seconds after they entered the ring.

.Maloney dropped fiat on his face, fur the full count after the first few bluws. he having received a tert-ific right-hander to the chin, necessitating his revival with ire water and smelling salts. Tom Keeney and .Tack Sharkey have now been matched to meet in New York on November 18th, in a twelve round bout.

SYDNEY. Oct. 2. At Newcastle Stadium. Eddie Parker. 12.0. of New Zealand, defeated Frankie Burns. 11.0 J. of Newcastle, on a technical knock-out in the sixteenth round. Burns, who was terrifically punished, was on the fiooi half way through the sixteenth round, and his -seconds threw in the towel. Although the contest was crude for men ranking, as champions, Parker won nil the way, a.ud had Burns floored three times with terrific rights to the jaw. He was down for eight seconds in the 12th and then again in the fifteenth, but he managed to weather the session, although taking the count to si*. The, end came in the next round," when Parker, after some desultory sparring landed a hard right to the jaw, and Burns went down in such a bad state his seconds skied the towel. Both men were overweight, Parker Going ohdit pounds over the middleweight limit. SYDNEY, Sept. 29. At the Stadium, after a fast, clever contest. Phil Krug defeated Billy Harms oil points in fifteen rounds.