BOXING

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1932, Page 5

BOXING

N.Z. MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE. j /- /’ '/iv'■■ ;■.//-'A■:w / / (Per Press Association-- Copyright:). , INVERCIARGILL,' July 25. ' . The Zealand Boxing* Council has given permission for 'a tout her ’ tween'Geoag© Mc-Ewam and Les Adams, Inveecargfcil,* ■ to, be for the , New Zealand middleweight title,-which is at' present Vacant. The bout -will be etaged at Invercargill on August dthl , T| ' WIN FOR "YctUNG” BTRIBLING. »i IN DISAPPOINTING EXHIBITION. j % ! j / - ' ' 'l'ljl''. l (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) jl' . ' , SYDNEY, July 26- , ' At th© stadium last night, eight , ip: , tHousand spectators saw, ‘‘Young’l Strib. 'S ling, 13.6/ obtain a points decHon over g:*n a fellow American, Frank Wine, 13.8, in a fifteen rounds’ disappointing ex- - hibitiop, wh’-ch was little more jthan a boxing lesson, in .’which Stribling completely -outcitajged his opponent. The latter hardly landed a decent punch and was far more concerned with get- , . ting into clinches in order ; to escape .""1 Stribling’s vicious lefts.

On the stage the crowd counted the pair ; out and there were ironical cheer* when. there was 'Anything in the nature of a ralily. Wine is stockily built, arid smaller than Striding, but he 'is a crude boxer. : ' The general; opinion was that'. ;Strib- : ling could have" finished him; off quite easily if ful’y ■extended..