BOXING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 29 July 1929, Page 6

BOXING

I.KCKIK MEETS IDS WATERLOO (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, i2B.ii July. A Allying rclimi fig'll lie'.wee'i Lrrkia ;,:i.l S.'imm siiv the latlci' avenge- Hit* former's point:-, defeat, by knocking out (lie New Zealander in the thirteenth round. Sarmn Imil the best of the bout all through, only Leckie's wimdei'fit I grit slaving off the end so long, lie It'll in the first round to a stiff short loft, bill was up al once. Ilis eagerness in llie second round gave Sarron an opening for a left book which floored the New Zealander for eight, lie needed a spell hut attacked immediately In he floored again, through he had the satisfaction of seeing the American down. Leckic was at hi.-i host in the second and third rounds when he had a shade the better of the points. After that the American had matters practically all his own way, and tho New Zealander took heavy pnnisliineiK, being down twice in. the. eleventh. A battery of left hooks and right swings in the thirteenth finished Leckic who was half through the ropes helpless, hul. came hack to he dropped by a smashing right to the chin.