BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1931, Page 3

BOXING

SOHAIELLING WINS. WORLD TITLE BOUT. WON ALL THE WAY. (United PrPss Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 3. In the contest at Cleveland, over 15 rounds, with Stribling, Sehmelling gained, the verdict by a technical k.o. in the- last round. Stnihling was then helpless on the ropes in Iris own corner. The end came fourteen, seconds before tlie bout wmuld have ended in a decision, when tlie referee, Air Blake, iieeded Sehmelling’s pleadings, and stopped the uneven contest. Stribling.Took a terrific beating in a game manner, from the tenth round on. He was knocked-, down for a count of nine a few seconds before the fight was stopped. Sehmelling was on top of hjs opponent from the start. He was always on the offensive.

Stribling boxed carefully in the early stages of the fight, and he held his own with the champion. Stribling indeed, looked good in the fourth round. He was then out-boxing the champion at long range, despite a bloody nose. Sehmelling, apparently hurt his opponent for the first time in the fifth round with two successive rights ,to the heart. Sehmelling grew stronger with the start of the seventh round, and at the end of this round Stribling was bleeding from a cut eye, and from the mouth ; and nose. Stribling rallied in the eighth round, but he did not hurt the champion, i The downfall of the challenger I started in the ninth round;, when his knees staggered after his taking a hard right to the chin. Stribling was ; tiring from then on. I .Sehmelling was on top from now on, hacking the challenger around the ring with deadly attacks to the head ! and the body. | The fight was witnessed by 40,000 people. UZCUDUN BEATS BAER.

NEW YORK, July 4

At Reno, Nevada, Uzcudun gained the decision over Baer, after twenty bruising rounds, to-night, the final round deciding the issue. Jack Dempsey was the referee.