BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1931, Page 3

BOXING

A DRAW. SHARKEY V. WALKER. WALKER BEST IN EAR lA' STAGES. NEW YORK, July 22. A crowd of thirty thousand saw a battle between the big Bos.on h.avvweight and the former middlewAgln champion. Sharkey weighed Walker Sharkey gave way bt fore Walker’s superior aggressiveness and steady body punching through tocany and middle rounds, but rallies strongly towards the finish. Sharkey - hammered walker solidly from the 12th to the 15th rounds, working methodically on a gash opened on Walker’s left eye in the sth round. The cut widened steadily in the closing rounds and in the 15th, a sharp righi loosed a steady stream of blood ovei Walker’s face.

The only semblance ot a knockdown came in the sth, when Walker, caught off his balance, was floored by a right to the chin, but "as up without the count.

The crowd was with Walker and roared in the 9th, when he launched a terrific offensive,' battering his opponent’s 'big body with both hands and driving Sharkey across the ring. ' Sharkey’s rejuvenation came in the 12th when he came out of his corner •i different kind of „fighter. His lethargy was gone. He fired both hauls at his opponent during the remaining rounds, but W 7 alker refused to go down. • 1